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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week
Last Studio Album Issued By The Trio After Ten Years With The Motown Label. The Track "Bless You" Returned The Vandellas To Multiple Chart Success, And The Ending The Group's Decade-Long Tenure Together. Miss Reeves Recalls Many Of The Tracks On The Album Were Originally Assigned To Diana Ross Before Being Reassigned To the Vandellas.
Biloxi, MS - Enigmatic Figure For Most Of His Career. Overseas, He Was A Genuine Hero, Performing For Thousands. But On His L.A. Home Turf, Sand-Blown Venice Beach Served As Hawkins' Makeshift Stage; Passersby Dropping A Few Coins Or A Greenback Into His Tip Jar.
Recorded At Dynamic Sound Studios, Kingston 1972 - Reggae Music Was Little Known Outside Of Its Native Jamaica, Other Than In Musical Circles Before The Release Of This Album. The First International Release By The Wailers, Catch A Fire, Would Not Be Until One Year Later. The Maytals Had Been Consistent Hit Makers In Jamaica During The 1960's, And Had Even Given The Genre Its Name With Their Single "Do The Reggay".
Waxing Over 200 Songs Over Her Career, Morse Was One Of The Most Recorded Female Singers Of The 1920's, And Moderately Successful As An Actress On The Broadway Stage. A Torch Singer, Her Career Began Around 1917.
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A Quartet Of Lone Star Statesmen Whose Songs Carry On The Musical Influence Of West Texas
This Song Is About The Small-Town Rumor Mill; The Town In This Case Is Woodstock, NY, Subject To Extraordinary Scrutiny And Innuendo. The Band Were Blessed With Three Lead Vocalists - All Three Were Used On The Track, First Appearing One-Year Earlier On "Stage Fright"
Five-Time Grammy Award Winning Latin Music Pioneer Taking Thelonious Monk Undercover On 1967 Classic "Straight, No Chaser." I Too Like It Neat!
One Of the Most Authentic Bluesman Working Today
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Co-Founding Member Of The Blasters Celebrating Number 67 A Few Weeks Ago
The New One From The Sacramento Based Singer-Songwriter
Undercover: Ethel Waters (1926) - Online Suggestion From Our Friends Listening In The U.P. this Morning
Special Guest On Harmony Vocals; Kitty Donohoe - Started On A Street Corner In East Lansing
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Formed In 1989 As Part Of A California Arts Council, With The Sole Purpose Of Promoting Mexican Folk Music With A Focus On Educational Outreach
Washington, D.C. - Incorporates The Traditional Sounds Of The Wassoulou And Sonrai Peoples Of Mali. According To Ethnomusicologists, The Music Of These Ethnic Groups Constitutes The Earliest Roots Of The Blues
Warren Haynes, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) And Bill Frisell Leading their Immense Talents To The Album Sarah Turned Forty-Two A Few Days Ago
Doc's Fourth Release With Merle In Tow Giving The Seventeenth-Century English Ballad the Watsonism Finesse, Describing An Adulterous Tryst Between A Young Man And A Noblewoman; It Did Not End Well.
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Blues Spotlight: Pianist Son Becky Recorded Only Six Titles Backed By An Unknown Guitarist And Washboard Player In San Antonio During The Summer Of 1937. His Background Is Sketchy, Best Remembered For His Live Gigs Along The Piney Woods Border With Louisiana. After Those Recording Sessions The Whereabouts Of Leon Calhoun Is Unknown.
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'820 Jazz' Presents: Steve Houghton, Drums...Tom Ranier, Piano...Richard Simon, Bass...Gabe Baltazar...Alto Saxophone - - - - - - - - - - Long Been One Of The Most Underrated Alto Saxophonists In Jazz. Spent Some Time In The Late 50's With The Lighthouse All-Stars And The Stan Kenton Orchestra. Gigged Around Los Angeles As A Member Of Several Television Orchestras. The Ninety-Year Old Still Maintains Some Serious Chops As Witnessed On This Reshaping On "The Birth Of The Blues."
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With Fats Kaplin On The Button Accordion And Fiddle
Side Project Of The Famed Cajun Band The Lost Bayou Ramblers
Debut Album - Sue Foley And Lloyd Maines Guesting
Tribute To The Family's American Heartland Heritage, Including Lyrics Written By Their Grandfather, Carl E. Haden During The Great Depression
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