Lionel Hampton Big Band

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

King Short Skirt

Originally Recorded In 1977- Among The Best Calypso Giants from Antigua - With Art De Coteau And His Trinidad Orchestra

Claude Fontaine

Written On The Heels Of A Failed Relationship

Wynonna & The Big Noise ft. Bob Weir

Composers: Robert Hunter/Jerry Garcia - First Performed By The Grateful Dead At The Northrop Auditorium On The Campus Of the University Of Minnesota In Minneapolis On October 19, 1971

Cindy Cashdollar

Guests Include Ray Benson, Albert Lee, Amy Helm, And John Sebastian

The Derailers

Founded In Austin In 1993 - Performed At Their Friend Buck Owens' 70th Birthday Party At Bucks' Personal Request - A Derailers Song Was Played Back To Earth From The First iPod Taken Into Outer Space, And Appear As Characters In Two Stephen King Stories

Henry Butler

Legendary Pianist Who Carried The Flamboyant, Two-Fisted Traditions Of New Orleans To The Brink Of The Avant-Garde

Tom Jones

Sir Thomas Jones Woodward, KBE Reworking The Classic Written By Nashville Songwriter Hall Of Famer Mickey Newbury, And Famously Recorded By The First Edition, 1967 And That Album Produced By Mike Post; Who Would Gain Later Renown For The Theme Music For Many Archetypical TV Dramas Such As Hill Street Blues, Magnum, P.I., And Law & Order

Graham Reynolds

Proprietor Of Red House Studios In Austin, TX - Composer-Bandleader-Improviser

Effie Smith & The Squires

Sang With The Lionel Hampton And Benny Carter Orchestras And A Few Sessions With Coleman Hawkins Before Hitting Paydirt As A Member Of Three Shades Of Rhythm And The Squires

Willis Brothers

Vintage Vinyl Spin: As Teenagers In 1932, The Willis Brothers Formed The Oklahoma Wranglers, Playing A Of Blend Of Western Swing And Cowboy, And For Short Time Toured As The Backing Band For Hank Williams. The Four Brothers Joined the Opry In 1946, Departing Three Years Later And Toured With Eddy Arnold. Pursuing Other Interests In The Music Industry, The Willis Brothers Dissolved The Band In The 1970's.

John Martyn

Produced By Al Stewart - The Second Release By The Critically-Acclaimed British Singer-Songwriter; A Master Of Blurring the Boundaries Between Several Musical Genres Over a Forty-Year Career

Artists For Peace & Justice

A Non-Profit Organization Encouraging Peace And Social Justice, And Addresses Issues Of Poverty Around The World

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The Modern Hicks

Composer: Guy Clark - Bringing The Music To Us From The Heart Of Wine Country, Sonoma County, CA

J.J. Cale

Oklahoma, OK - J.J.'s Sixth Release Recorded During A Move From Nashville To a Trailer Park In Anaheim, CA. "Shades", Continued Cale's Tradition Of Giving His Albums One Word Titles. The Late J.J. Cale Has Always Kept It Simple

Barbara Keith

Active During The Late '60's Early 70's Greenwich Village Scene, And Re-Emerging Twenty-Five Years Later In The Stone Coyotes

Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn

Forthcoming Long-Play Due May 29, Produced By Bela Fleck - Beijing-Born Fei And Illinois-Raised Washburn Have Focused Major Parts Of Their Career On Studying And Expanding On Folk Music Across The World; A Better Understanding Of The Symbiotic Relationship Between Washburn's American Folk Sounds And Wu's Background In Chinese Folk And Classical

Bessie Tucker

Blues Spotlight: East Texas Blues Singer Bessie Tucker Recorded Just Twenty-Four Tracks, All Before 1930. Her Songs Were Predominantly Autobiographical; Riding the Rails, Time Spent In Prison, And Lazy Men. Not Much Is Known Of Miss Tucker Outside The Texas Blues Scene. Bessie Tucker Passed On In 1933 At the Age Of Twenty-Seven.

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Bessie Tucker

Blues Spotlight: ?/?/1906 TX - January 6, 1933 TX

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Shorty Baker & Doc Cheatham

'820' Jazz Presents: "Shorty & Doc", Is A 1961 Recording On The Swingville Label. The Two Trumpeters Unite In A Quintet Configuration In a Swing-Oriented Session Recorded By Rudy Van Gelder, This Is 'Chitlins' - - - - - -Walter Bishop, Piano...Wendell Marshall, Bass...J.C. Heard, Drums...shorty Baker And Doc Cheatham, Trumpet

The Mastersons

Produced By Shooter Jennings - Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore Release Their Fourth Set Of Emotionally Vivid Songs On 3/6

Dad Blackard's Moonshiners

A Family Group Forming In The Blue Ridge Mountains During The 1920's; Recording At The Bristol Sessions In 1927, And Having A Profound Impact On Country And Bluegrass Music

Lorraine Jordan & The Carolina Road Band

Forthcoming Album Due In A Few Weeks

Borr McFerrin

Matthew Borr And Carrie McFerrin Making Music Together For Seven Years After Meeting At The Bus Stop Music Festival Near Kalamazoo

Jay Ungar and Molly Mason

The Heart And Soul Of American Roots Music