Brooklyn Funk Essentials

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

Steve Earle

Fort Monroe, VA - Early On Played Bass Guitar In Guy Clark's Band And Sang On Clark's 1975 Album Old No. 1

The Dead Tongues

The Smoldering Folk-Rock Project Of Durham's Ryan Gustafson Doing Justice To The Early Twentieth-Century American Murder Ballad

Lindi Ortega

Toronto, CN - Has Taken Home Two Canadian Music Association Awards Including Roots Artist of the Year

Mississippi Fred McDowell And Rosalee Hill

Son Of A Sharecropper, And A Seminal Figure In Mississippi Hill Country Blues.A Local Entertainer In 1959 When He Made His First Recordings At His Home For Folklorist Alan Lomax. The Depth And Originality Of McDowell's Music Brought Him such Worldwide Acclaim That He Was Able To Record And Tour Prolifically During His Final Years.

The James Hunter Six

Fresh Into The 'YCE Blues Alley

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit ft. David Crosby

New Album Drops 5/18 - Appearing At Devos Performance Hall With Special Guest Strand Of Oaks 6/23

Gene Austin

One Of The First Known "Crooners" Accompanied By The Victor Orchestra Directed By Nathaniel Silkret; Charted For Twenty-Six Weeks Perching At Number One For Thirteen - One Of The Best Selling Single Of All Time, My Blue Heaven Is Part Of The Prestigious Grammy Hall Fame

Cindy Cashdollar

Jake Langley, Piano - Johnny Mercer And Hoagy Carmichael Published 'Skylark' In 1941, Writing The Melody Based On A Bix Beiderbecke Cornet Improvisation, Known As "Bix Licks", Two Decades Prior

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Dee Dee Bridgewater, Irvin Mayfield, NOJO

Three-Time Grammy Winning Singer Born In Memphis And Raised In Flint - Sang For Mel Lewis And Thad Jones In The 1970's, Marking The Beginning Of Her Jazz Career

Merline Johnson

Favoring Juke-Joint Blues, Merline Johnson Recorded "Bad Whiskey Blues" With Blind John Davis And Lonnie Johnson During Her Final Recording Session In 1947. Shortly thereafter, Miss Johnson Drifted Into The Blues Sunset Never To Be Heard From Again; A Footnote In The History Of The Blues

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Native Flute Ensemble: One Of The First Group Of Musicians To Frame The Native American Flute With Other Instruments; Highly-Instrumental In The Renaissance Of That Instrument

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Djangophonique

Andrew Brown Is The Co-Founder Of The Appleseed Collective

Clothesline Revival

Reworking An Eighteenth-Century Scottish Reel Called "Lord Macdonald's Reel." The Title "Leather Britches" (Or "Breeches") Is Primarily The American Title First Appearing In the Mountains Of West Virginia

Jake Xerxes Fussell

Durham, NC - The Son Of A Folklorist - As A Teen Jake Began Playing With Elder Musicians In The Chattahoochee Valley, Apprenticing With Piedmont Blues Legend Precious Bryant

Growling Old Men

John Lowell And Ben Winship Are Both Veterans Of The Northern Rockies' Acoustic Music World And Entering Their Twenty-Second Year Performing And Recording As 'Growling Old Men'

Helene Cronin

Released a Few Months Ago, The Texas Native Was Named a 2018 New Folk Winner At the Prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival

Mississippi Sheiks

Blues Spotlight: One Half Of The Legendary Mississippi Sheiks, Walter Vinson Was Also Among The Most Noteworthy Blues Accompanists Of His Era. During The 1920's He Worked With Charlie McCoy, Rubin Lacy,And Charlie Spand Before Forging His Most Pivotal And Long-Lasting Union With Lonnie Chatmon In 1928. When The Sheiks Dissolved In 1933, Vinson Relocated To Chicago, And Remained Active As A Club Performer During the 40's. The Blues Revival Of The Early 1960's Brought Him Out Of Retirement And Onto The Festival Scene. Walter Vinson Passed On In 1975.

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Walter Vinson

Blues Spotlight: February 2, 1901 MS - April 22, 1975 IL

Melvin Sparks

'820' Jazz: Melvin Sparks Took His Place As The Go To Guitarist For Jazz Pillars Lou Donaldson And Sonny Stitt. This Morning We Feature A Track From 'Texas Twister', A 1973 Solo Release On Eastbound Records, In Which Sparks Experiments With Several Configurations Of Personnel. On The Song "Gathering Together" He Fires Up His Favored Quartet - - - - - - -Idris Mohammad, Drums...Caesar Frazier, Hammond B-3...Wilbur Bascomb, Bass..Melvin Sparks, Guitar

Miss Tess

Bringing Her Old-Time Warmth With A Hint Of 21st Century Sass To Tip Top Deluxe Here On GR's West Side, 4/29

Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGhee

Performing Vaudevillains And Two Of The Most Enduring Acts On The Grand Ole Opry During The Show's First Fifty Years

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Danny Barnes

Temple, TX - Banjo Virtuoso And Founding Member Of Austin's 'Bad Livers'

The Steeldrivers

Appearing At the Lerner In Elkhart, IN 5/2

Blaze Foley

Malvern, AR - His Mother Laid Down Roots In Houston And Blaze Joined Her In The Gospel Band Called The Singing Fuller Family - Close Friend With Townes Van Zandt

Michael Beauchamp

Co-Founding Member Of Red Tail Ring

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