Mike Marshall & Chris Thile

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

Nikki Lane

Greenville, SC - Lane's Second Release Produced By Dan Auerbach - Living In Nashville, Nikki Also Owns And Operates A Clothing Boutique Called "High Class Hillbilly"

Rodney Crowell

Documentary Film Captured Some Of The Founders Of The Outlaw Country Movement In Texas And Tennessee In The Last Weeks Of 1975 And The First Weeks Of 1976, Covering Singer-Songwriters Whose Songs Are More Traditional To Early Folk And Country Music Instead Of Following In The Tradition Of The Previous Generation.

Woody Pines

Nashville Troubadour Drawing Liberally From The Lost Back Alley Anthems And Scratchy Old 78's Of American Roots Music; Spending Years Busking Street Corners Perfecting The Sound Into Something You Would Have Heard In A 1940's Alabama Juke Joint

The Mastersons

Debut Album By Husband And Wife Duo Chris Masterson And Eleanor Whitmore

Desmond Dekker And The Aces

An Excellent Example How The Ska Music From The Mid-60's Is Developing To The Rocksteady Sound, And The Lyrics Come From The Calypso-Mento Method Of Telling About Current Events In Music. Dekker And The Aces Were Jamaican Music's First Outernational Superstar

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Al Kooper & The Al Kooper Big Band

Giving A Tip Of The Hat To Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong and Janie Bradford, The Three Composing Architects Of The Motown Hits Stable

Furry Lewis

Greenwood, MS - Remastering Of Furry's 1969 Classic - Of All The Old Bluesmen Who Were Rediscovered In The 60's, Furry Lewis Was By Far The Most Engaging Character. Built His First Guitar, Lost A Leg In 1917 Trying to Jump A Train - Hung Around Beale Street Playing With Gus Cannon And Bukka White. Rediscovered In 1959, Becoming A Mainstay On The Blues Revival Circuit.

Mamou Prairie Band

Johnny Cash

A Collection Of Spiritual Songs And Hymns That Johnny Learned From His Mother While Growing Up. The Album Features Johnny's single Acoustic Guitar And Wonderful Bass-Baritone Voice

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COMPILATIONS

Zimbabweans Dumari Maraire & Ephat Mujuru, Two Of Twentieth Centuries Finest Mbira Musicians. The Origins Of The Mbira, Or Thumb Piano Can Be Traced Three-Thousand Years Ago To The West Coast Of Africa, Among The Ethnic Groups Of Zimbabwe And Mozambique

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Miss Rhapsody ft. The June Cole Orchestra

Reworking The 1934 Piedmont Blues Pillar Recorded First By Buddy Moss

Maria Muldaur & Her Garden of Joy

Dan Hicks Dueting With Maria

La-Llamas

Davy Cattanach Of The Old Blind Dogs And Paddy Buchanan Of The Marionettes Began Jamming On & Off A Few Years Ago, Building A Rootsy Groove On A Foundation Of World Music Rhythms.

Federale

Portland, OR - Formed In 2004 By Colin Hegna Of The Brian Jonestown Massacre. The Band Take Their Influence By The Music Of European Genre Films, Spaghetti Westerns and Giallos

Kathleen Healy

Singer/Songwriter Based On Cape Cod, Ma Heavily Influenced By Nanci Griffith

The Beale Streeters

Had A Short But Brilliant Career Beginning In The Late 1940's As Part Of The Loose Collective Of Blues Musicians Known As The Beale Streeters, Which Included BB King, Bobby Bland And Rosco Gordon. Ace Racked Up Huge Record Sales And Sold-Out Concerts, Regularly Charting High On The R&B Charts. Unfortunately, Johnny's Non-Stop Touring Schedule And Heavy Alcohol Consumption Caught Up With Him. Johnny Alexander Died By His Own Hand In 1935 At The Age of Twenty-Five

Johnny Ace ft. Big Mama Thornton & Johnny Otis

June 9, 1929 TN - December 25, 1954 TX

Cootie Williams Quintet

Arnold Jarvis, Hammond B-3...Lester Jenkins, Drums...Larry Dale, Guitar...George Clark, Tenor Saxophone...Cootie Williams, Trumpet - - - - - - - - - - - Rose to Prominence As A Member Of Duke Ellington's Orchestra When The Band Was Playing At The Cotton Club. Briefly Played With Chick Webb And Fletcher Henderson, And In 1940 With Benny Goodman Prior To Forming Several Small Groups; Remaining His Preferred Configurations.

Guy Clark

Gibson Brothers

Leigh & Eric Pickin' On Tom Petty This Morning - Petty Wrote It For His Second Solo Release, "Wildflowers' In 1994

Sierra Hull

Sierra Continues The Musical Journey Built Upon Her Bluegrass Roots And Venturing Into Entirely New Terrain

Asleep At The Wheel

Wills Was Recording An Album With Merle Haggard In 1973 when A Stroke Left Him Comatose Until His Death Two Years Later. The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inducted Bob Wills And the Texas Playboys In 1999 In The Early Influences Category

Dave Rawlings Machine

The Debut Album From Gillian Welch's Secret Weapon. The Tune Packs A Seventies Topanga Canyon Vibe With Ketch Secor, Willie Watson, Kevin Hayes, And Morgan Jahnig Of "Old Crow Medicine Show" Contributing Substantially On The Recording