Karavan Sarai

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

Sonny Landreth

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

The Oscar Peterson Trio Returns As The Duo's Backing Group, This Time Along With Drummer Louie Bellson

Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis

Composer: Spenser Williams, 1928 - The Basin Street Of The Title Refers To The Main Street Of Storyville, The Red-Light District Of Early 20th-Century New Orleans, North Of The French Quarter. It Became A Red Light District In 1897.

Flaco Jimenez

San Antonio, TX - A Pioneer Of Conjunto Music - Began San San Antonio - Recording At Age Fifteen As Member Of Los Caminantes; The World Renowned Accordionist Recently Turned Eighty-One Years Of Age

The Fat Babies

Seven Piece Jazz Band From Chicago

Dr. John

First Released On The Good Doctors Third Album 'Remedies' In 1970

The Fiestas

Late 1950's American R&B Musical Group From New Jersey Signed To The Old Town Records Company In '59 After The Company's Owner, Hy Weiss, Overheard The Group Singing In A Bathroom Adjacent To His Office In Harlem

Appalachian Road Show

A Visionary Acoustic Ensemble Bringing New-Generation Interpretations, Presented With A Common Thread Tied Directly To The Heart Of The Appalachian Regions Of The United States

Nick Lowe With Los Straitjackets

Due On June 5th - Lowe's Third EP In Two Years, A Four-Song Tour-De-Force With Nashville Instrumental Rocker's Los Straitjackets.

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys ft. Claude Fewell

Happy Easter From all Of Us At 'YCE

Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty

Over The Course Of A Seventeen Year Musical Partnership, Loretta And Conway Released Eleven Albums And Twelve Singles; Recipients Of Eight Country Music Association Awards

Ry Cooder

Reworking The 1929 Gospel Great Composed And Recorded By Sacred And Secular Blues Musician Blind Roosevelt Graves

Maxwell Street Klezmer Band

One Of The First Klezmer Revival Bands In The Midwest, Forming In Chicago In 1983, And Named After Chicago's Jewish Marketplace Of The Early 1900's

The Waco Brothers

Shout Out To The Over The Road Salesman Traveling The Asphalt Etching Out a Living

Eilen Jewell

A Singers/Songwriters Tip Of The Hat To Seventy-Five Year Old Chris Smither

M. Ward

Reworking Glenn Miller & His Orchestra (1940)

Steve Forbert

Now An Elder Statesman Of Homespun Americana Roots Music, Forbert's New One Is A Cover Album Of Some Of His Favorite Folk-Rock Songs Given The Usual Forbert Finesse

Laura Smith

Canadian Songstress Re-Adapting The Eighteenth-Century Scottish Folk Song

Charley Jordan & Peetie Wheatshaw

Blues Spotlight: Country Blues Guitarist Charley Jordan Is One Of The Many Major Figures In The Blues Of Whom We Know Surprisingly Little. He Played A Clean, Three-Finger Style That Owed A Good Deal To Ragtime, Recording Extensively During The 1930's Usually Alongside Peetie Wheatshaw. In 1928 Jordan Was Shot In The Spine Due To His Parallel Career As A Bootlegger, Leaving Him On Crutches And A Performing Career Greatly Curtailed. During His Time As A Talent Scout For Vocalion Records, He And Big Joe Williams Ran A Rehearsal Studio In St. Louis That Became A Mecca For Visiting Bluesmen Preparing To Record In The City. Charley Jordan Passed On in 1954.

Charley Jordan

Blues Spotlight: January 1, 1890 AR - November 15, 1954 MO

Carl Fontana Quintet

'820 Jazz' Presents: Henri Renaud, Piano...Curtis Counce, Double Bass...Wes Ilcken, Drums..Al Porcino, Trumpet....Carl Fontana, Trombone - - - - Groundbreaking Trombonist Carl fontana Worked In The Big Bands Of Woody Herman, Lionel Hampton, and Stan Kenton. Formed Several Groups In Various Configurations Since 1958. This Morning We Hear From The Carl Fontana Quintet And Daniel's Blues

The Sweethearts Of Navajoland

A Revolving Group Of Navajo Women Changing From Year To Year, A Combination Of Young And Old; The Common Thread Between Them Is A Love Of The Navajo Culture.

Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms

Co-Founding Members Of The Folk-Rock Band Calobo, Luminaries In The Northwest's Burgeoning 90's Music Scene; Later And Still To This Day Members Of The Widely Celebrated Foghorn Stringband

Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaneers

Mountain Shout: Represented And Promoted The Musical Culture Of Their Region For Most Of The 1920's. Thanks To Them Gordon County, GA Has Come To Be Held In High Regard By Fans Of Old-Time Southern Music

Danny Barnes

Produced By Dave Matthews - Bill Frisell, Guitars - John Paul Jones, Bass - Barnes Came To Fame In 1990 As A Founding Member Of the Bad Livers

Laurel Premo

Co-Founding Member Of Kalamazoo's Internationally Known Red Tail Ring - The 'Iron Trios' Record Marks Laurel's Second Major Instrumental Work