Brazzamerica

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

Michaela Anne

Produced By Sam Outlaw

Marc Cohn & Blind Boys of Alabama

First Time Collaboration

Davina and the Vagabonds

Mamie Smith

1923 Release Joined By Her Jazz Hounds; A Fine Example Of Mamie's Vaudeville Swagger - The First African-American To Record Vocal Blues Songs In 1920

The Allman Betts Band

The Allman Betts Band Is Devon Allman, Duane Betts, Berry Oakley Jr., Johnny Stachela, John Ginty, R. Scott Bryan, And John Lum - Recorded At The Legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studios - guests Include Chuck Leveall, And Peter Levin - Appearing At 20 Monroe Live 2/6/20

Samuel Nalangira

Uganda, East Africa - A Multi-Instrumentalist; Master At Many Traditional Instruments - His Music Carries A True Identity Of The Sub Saharan Skies

Guitar Up

Retro-Surf Band Out Of Kalamazoo

The Mamas & The Papas

The Mamas And The Papas Released A Total Of Five Studio Albums And 17 Singles Over A Four-Year Period, Selling Forty Million Records Worldwide - Honorees Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, The Group Was A Defining Force In The Music Scene Of The Counterculture Of The 1960's

The Mavericks

Masters Of Country-Latin Rock'N'Roll, Born In The Rich Cultural Mix Of Miami Then Tempered In Nashville's Country Hothouse

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Big Walter Horton

Playing The Harmonica By Age Five - Joined The Muddy Waters Band In 1952 Following The Departure Of Junior Wells - Posthumously Inducted Into The Blues Hall Of Fame In 1982

Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys

Known As The "King Of Country Music" - Gained Regional Fame As The Singer And Fiddler For His Group, The Smoky Mountain Boys - Joined The Grand Ole Opry In 1938 - Acuff Is Often Credited With Moving The Genre From Its Early String Band And "Hoedown" Format To The Singer-Based Format That Helped Make Country Music Internationally Successful - He And Fred Rose Founded Acuff-Rose Music, The First Major Nashville-Based Country Music Publishing Company

Reed Turchi & His Kudzu Choir

Recorded At Sun Studios, Memphis

Gasoline Lollipops

Stitching Scraps Of American Roots Music To Patches Of Their Own Tattered Hearts To Form An All-New Tapestry Of Bleeding Rock N' Roll

John Coinman

Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter Growing Up On The Kiowa Grasslands In Clayton, New Mexico - Bandleader For Kevin Costner & Modern West

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Sunny War

Second Release Finds Sunny Looking Back On The Rocky Roads Of Her Past, Spending The Early Years In LA's Punk Music Scene, Hopping Freight Trains At An Early Age And Living Homeless On The Streets

Willie Headen

Never Having A Substantial National Hit, Willie Headen Made A Series Of Respectable R&B Records In The Mid 1950's In A Small Combo Piano-Based Style, Though That Approach Was Getting Slightly Out Of Fashion With The Onset Of Rock & Roll. Headen Began His Career In Kansas City With The Kansas City Gospel Singers Before Relocating To Los Angeles In 1952. Signing a Record Contract For DooTone Records, About A Dozen Singles Were Cut Before Headen Left The Music Business Eight Years Later.

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Jackie McLean Quintet

Freddie Hubbard, Trumpet...Kenny Drew, Piano...Doug Watkins, Bass...Pete La Roca, Drums...Jackie McLean, Alto Saxophone - - - - - - A 1961 Monster Session Effortlessly Performed By A Soloist At An Early Peak And A Supporting Cast Of Blazing Sidemen, Laying Down A Hard Blowing Session Based Completely On Blues Motifs, With The Swing Factor Not Forgotten.

Esther Rose

Appearing In Kalamazoo At The Old Dog Tavern, 9/16

Cherryholmes

A Fine Reworking Of The Hazel Dickens And Alice Gerrard Classic

Flatt & Scruggs

Nashville Airplane Is The 27th Album By Lester Flatt And Earl Scruggs Released In 1968, Shortly Before Their Breakup In 1969 Due To Artistic Differences; Lester Resisted A Change In Direction, Earl Embraced It - Together For Forty-One Years

Fraser & DeBolt

Canadian Duo Allan Fraser And Daisy DeBolt Met At A Workshop At The 1968 Mariposa Folk Festival Active Through the Early 1970's

Steve Martin

Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez