COMPILATIONS

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

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The Band

Horn Arrangements By Allen Toussaint - Musical Notation For This Song Is Printed On A Wall Behind Levon Helm's Grave In Woodstock, New York

Tami Neilson

Member Of The Neilsons - Four-Time Winner At The New Zealand Music Awards

Amy Speace

Baltimore, MD

Jonah Tolchin

Lee Dorsey

Inspired By A Children's Nursery Rhyme, Lee Dorsey Composed Ya Ya In 1961, Produced By Allen Toussaint With Backing Band the Meters - The Beatles Performed It Regularly During Their Hamburg Days

Lucky Peterson

Undercover: Muddy Waters - Turning Fifty-Four In A couple Of Days

Organissimo

GR Groove!

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Nat Cole With Billy May And His Orchestra

Montgomery, AL - Recorded October 1954 At Capitol Studio In Los Angeles, One Of Over One Hundred Songs That Became Hits On The Pop Charts.

The War and Treaty

Michael And Tanya Trotter

Johnny Bond

Vintage Vinyl Spin: American Country Music Entertainer Of The 1940's Through The 1960's, First Performed On Radio In Oklahoma City When He Was 19 Years Old. Bond's First Solo Recordings Came With Columbia Records In 1937, Best Known For His 1947 Hit "Divorce Me C.O.D" - Elected To The Country Music Hall Of Fame, And To The Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame

Beausoleil

Michael Doucet Is A Recipient Of The 2005 National Heritage Fellowship Awarded By The National Endowment For The Arts, This Nation's Highest Honor In The Folk And Traditional Arts

Dudu Tassa And The Kuwaitis

Cross-Cultural Jewish-Arabic Project Reviving The Groundbreaking, Early 20th Century Iraqi Music By Tassas' Grandfather And Great-Uncle, The Al-Kuwaiti Brothers.

Richard Thompson

Twelfth-Studio Solo Release For The Co-Founding Member Of Fairport Convention

Smooth Hound Smith

East Nashville, TN - Roots And Roll Band Founded By Zack And Caitlin Smith In 2012

Jesse Winchester

The Consummate Troubadour For Fifty-Three Years, Receiving A Lifetime Achievement Award From The American Society Of Composers, Authors And Publishers in 2007

Blue Mountain

Oxford, MS

Eilen Jewell

One Of Music's Most Idiosyncratic Voices Began Her Career Busking On The Streets Of Santa Fe

Montana Taylor

An American Boogie-Woogie Blues Pianist, Regarded As The Leading Exponent Of The "Barrelhouse" Style Of Playing, First Recording In 1929, After Which Disappearing From Public Record For a Few Years. Rediscovered in 1946, Montana Recorded Solo And As Accompanist to Bertha "Chippie" Hill. The Later Recordings Proved He Had Lost None Of His Instrumental Abilities, And Had Developed As A Singer; these Were His Last Recordings. Arthur "Montana" Taylor Passed On In 1957.

Montana Taylor & The Jazoo Boys

?/?/1903 Montana - ?/?/1957 Ohio

Herb Ellis Quartet

820 Jazz - Mel Rhyne, Organ...Jake Hanna, Drums...Johnny Frigo, Violin...Herb Ellis, Guitar - - - - - "Roll Call" Is Herb Ellis' First Full Set As A Leader Since Leaving The Concord Label In 1988. The Set Finds Him In Inspired Form with A Trio Of Veteran Musicians Crossing Paths Once Again, And Revisiting 'Detour Ahead', A Jazz Standard Written by Eliis In 1948, Then As A Member Of The Soft Winds

Michael Cleveland

With Sam Bush Reworking John Hiatt's Classic

Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys

Vintage Bluegrass!

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Slim Harbert And His Boys

Early Influence On Western Swing

Charlie Parr

Austin, MN

Michaela Anne

Produced By Sam Outlaw

Kieran Kane

Turning Seventy A Few Weeks Ago - Owner Of The Independent Label Dead Reckoning Records