Norton Buffalo & George Kahumoku, Jr

"When Music Is Tight It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

Big Mama Thornton

First To Record "Hound Dog," 1952 - Her Vocal Sound And Style Of Delivery Are Key Parts Of Her Style And Are Recognizable In The Work Of Elvis Presley And Janis Joplin

Bill Hearne

Santa Fe American Roots Icon

Kay Kyser And His Orchestra

Vocals: Glee Club - The "Ol' Professor Of Swing" - Hugely Popular Big Band Leader Before Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman Or Tommy Dorsey - Disappeared From The General Public In 1950. Quit. Went home. Never Came Back. Made His Million, Then Left Without Even Making An Announcement

Leo "Bud" Welch

Not Recording Until He Was 84 Years Of Age. Selections From Welch's Posthumous Release "The Angels In Heaven Done Signed My Name," Are Heard Here On 'YCE

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Duck Baker

Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitarist Playing In A Variety Of Disciplines; Influenced Early On By Ragtime And The Album "Misterioso," By Thelonious Monk

Dead Fingers

Husband/Wife Duo Kate Taylor & Taylor Hollingsworth Out Of Birmingham

Beegie Adair

Vocals: Ray Stevens

Dale Ann Bradley

Raised In The Coal Fields Of Appalachia: IBMA Vocalist Of The Year Honoree

Wayne Toups

Undercover: Van Morrison

38th Army Band

Composed By Patrick Gilmore During The Third Year Of The American Civil War, 1863

Vern Smesler

Passed Down Through Oral Traditional From the Grandfather Of Kenny And Vern Smesler; Recorded By Pioneering Musicologist And Field Recordist John Lomax For Preservation Into The Smithsonian Institution

COMPILATIONS

"Amazing Grace," Published In 1779, And Performed Wonderfully R. Carlos Nakai, Flute

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Jimmy Rogers With Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters

Jimmy Rogers: Co-Founder Of The Muddy Waters Band - Rogers, Little Walter And Muddy Formed The Band In 1947; Nobody Could Touch Them - Defining The Sound Of The Nascent South Side Chicago Blues.

Rhiannon Giddens

Produced By Joe Henry Tracking The Album Over An Intensely Productive Five-Day Period In Dublin - The Album Hits The Streets May 3

Jamestown Revival

Street Date: June 14 - Childhood Friends Zach Chance and Jonathan Clay From Magnolia, TX - The Band's Name Is Derived From One Of The First United States Settlements, Jamestown, Virginia, And Homage To Creedence Clearwater Revival

Guy Clark

Vocals: Longtime Clark Compatriot Shawn Camp; Recorded At The Belcourt Theater, Nashville

Rosa Henderson

Blues Spotlight: Remembered As One Of The Great Singers Of the Classic Blues Era, Rosa Henderson's Career As An Entertainer Began In A circus Troupe In 1913. Marrying Douglas "Slim" Henderson In 1918 And Traveling With His Mason-Henderson Road Show, Miss Henderson Began a Nine-Year Recording Career Beginning In 1923, Recording Over One Hundred Songs Using Several Pseudonyms, Accompanied By The Virginians And Fletcher Henderson's Jazz Five. A Major Presence In New York During the Harlem Renaissance Era, Rosa Henderson Continued to Perform Until 1932. Rosa Deschamps Passed On In 1968.

Rosa Henderson

November 24, 1896 Kentucky - April 6, 1968 New York

The Marsalis Family

'820 Jazz' - Roland Guerin, Bass...Branford Marsalis, Tenor Saxophone...Wynton Marsalis, Trumpet...Delfeayo Marsalis, Trombone...Jason Marsalis, Drums...Ellis Marsalis, Piano - - - - - The Crescent City's Most Celebrated Jazz Family Recorded For The First Time In 2002; Spirited Readings Of Traditional Favorites With A Number Of Special Guests Honoring The Elder Marsalis. This Morning The Sextet Performs "Struttin' With Some Barbeque," Vintage Louis Armstrong, Written By His Wife Lil And Recorded By The 'Hot Fives,' In 1927

The Flatlanders

Lubbock, TX - Three Of Texas' Most Respected Singer/Songwriters, Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore And Butch Hancock; First Album In Five Years, And Only Fifth Studio Album In The Trio's Forty-Seven Year Career

Our Native Daughters

Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell & Rhiannon Giddens

Bill Carlisle's Kentucky Home Boys

Member Of The Country Music Hall Of Fame, Influencing That Genre For More Than Fifty Years

Joe Wilson and Drew Howard

The Songs Pedigree Can Be Traced Back To Southern African-American Churches Of The Nineteenth Century, Prior To The Civil War

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David Holt

Four-Time Grammy Award Recipient - Collected And Performer Of The Songs And Stories Of The Blue Ridge Mountains, Learning The Treasure Trove Of Music Directly From Musical Greats Including Doc Watson, Roy Acuff, Tommy Jarrell, Etta Baker And Grandpa Jones.