The John Santos Sextet

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

Rachael Davis

Mitten Songstress!

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June Christy And The Pete Rugolo Orchestra

Worked Her Silky Smooth Vocals Fronting The Stan Kenton Orchestra - One Of The Finest And Most Neglected Singers Of Her Time

Chris Smither

Smither Turns 76 In A Few Weeks

The Honeycutters

The Band Originally Founded Under The Name "Bee's Knees" In Asheville In 2007

Wilbert Harrison

Known As "Stagolee" And Other Variants Published In 1911, And First Recorded In 1923 By Fred Waring"s Pennsylvanians - The Beatles Covered The R&B Great On A Few Of The Early Albums

Ry Cooder

Cooder Formed the Rising Sons With Taj Mahal And Played In Captain Beefheart's Magic Band Before Setting Off On One Of The Most Interesting Career Journeys Of His Generation

Cascada De Flores

San Francisco, 1999 - Yucatecan Swing

The Bahama Soul Club

A German-Based Collective Whipping Up A Global Fusing Of Soul, Jazz, Funk, Blues, Bossa Nova, Afro And Caribbean Influences

The Golden Shoals

Boston, MA - Country Ham: Cured, Smoked And Salty - Red Eye Gravy: Pan Drippings Left From The Ham, Deglazed With Black Coffee: And, So Concludes Our "In The Kitchen Lesson' For Today

Perline Ellison

One Of The Few To Make the Transition From Vaudeville To Blues Stage. Short-Lived, Miss Ellison Made A Major Impact On Blues Performance

The Beau Hunks

Dutch Revivalist Ensemble Performing The Vintage Works Of Roy Shield, Composer For The Vintage Hal Roach Comedy Short Films Of The 1920's-30's, Including 'Our Gang' And 'Laurel & Hardy'

Sugar Ray & the Bluetones

New Blues Into The 'YCE Blues Alley - Published In 1932 For The Broadway Show "Earl Carroll's Vanities" - Major Recordings By Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong And Benny Goodman In 1933

Low Cut Connie

Dynamite Rock And Roll Band Out Of Philadelphia, Melding At the Crossroads Where The Church House Meets The Roadhouse, Or Where The Dew Drop Inn Meets CBGB

The Codgers

Mitten Music! Forming In Detroit, More Precisely The Corktown District In 2006

Tony Joe White

Moving Through The Junior Walker Classic

Gillian Welch

Released On Friday; The Second Installment Of The Newly Unearthed And Celebrated Cache Of Home Demos And Reel-To-Reel Recordings From The Vault Of Welch And Rawlings - Vol. 3 Is Due November 13th

Rhythm Willie And His Gang

A Technically Accomplished And Musically Innovative Player, The First Truly Urban Blues Harp Player Utilizing It With The Urbanity Of A Jazz Trumpeter Or Clarinetist. Performing In Nightclubs In Chicago, Willie Appeared On Sixteen Issued Recordings Over Eleven Years Beginning In 1938, Preferring To Accompany Peetie Wheatstraw And Lee Brown, Not Recording Solo Until 1940. William Hood Passed On In 1954.

Rhythm Willie ft. Peetie Wheatshaw

Blues Spotlight: September 15, 1910 IL - May 18, 1954 IL

Sonny Clark Trio

'820' Jazz Presents: Paul Chambers, Bass...Philly Joe Jones, Drums...Sonny Clark, Piano - - - - - - - - This Album Reworks Six Jazz Standards Performed By A Brilliant Pianist Alongside A Rhythm Section As Equally Brilliant. The Three Cut Loose On The Dizzy Gillespie Gem "Be-Bop", Giving The Workout A Hard Bop Groove - An Idiom Very Comfortable To The Sonny Clark Trio

Russell Moore & 111RD Tyme Out

Five 'Grassers From Georgia Pickin' Together For Thirty Years

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Twisted Pine

The Boston Roots Jammers Second Release

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Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton

Recorded In Greenwich Village In 1962 - Those Shows Were Among The Rare Appearances Doc's Father-In-Law, fiddler Gaither Carlton Made Outside Of North Carolina

Nobody's Darlin'

GR Gold! - Southern Gospel Song Published In 1911

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Dirk Powell

New Into 'YCE

Po' Girl

Undercover: Elizabeth Cotton