Don Spezia

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

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Sam Carr's Delta Jukes

Founding Member Of The Jelly Roll Kings, Son Of Influential Blues Guitarist Robert Nighthawk - Widely Regarded As One Of The Best Drummers In The Blues - Carr Began His Career With Sonny Boy Williamson ll (Rice Miller)

Leyla McCalla

A Tribute To The Legacy Of Poet And Thinker Langston Hughes

Los Fabulosos Cadillacs

Buenos Aires Latin-Rock Ensemble Serving Up A Potent Brew OF The World's Flavors

The Mystix

Recognized For Their Unique Reinterpretation Of The Blues And Gospel Reaching Back To The 1920's

Merle Jagger

Boiling Out Of The Stills Of LA's Roots Underground

The Traveling Wilburys

Sung By The Middle Brother Lefty Wilbury, a.k.a. Roy Orbison

Randall Bramblett

Athens, GA - Cuts His Studio Chops During The Early Years At Capricorn Studios, Macon, GA

Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite

New Blues Into The 'YCE Blues Alley

Johnny Cash

Veterans Day, Wednesday November 11 - Thank You Veterans For Your Service

Ella Fitzgerald And Her Famous Orchestra

The Great Chick Webb Ask Her to Join His Orchestra In 1935, Ella Had Just Turned Eighteen - After Webb Passed Away Of Spinal Tuberculous Four Years Later, Ella Took Over As Bandleader; Recording Nearly One-Hundred Fifty Songs By 1942 - 'The First Lady Of Song' Continued A Phenomenal Solo Career For Another Fifty-Years

Doc & Merle Watson

Guests: T. Michael Coleman And Tom Scott - A Collection Of Instrumentals Recorded In The Early Eighties Originally On Flying Fish Records - Recently Re-Released

Paddygrass

Our Good Thoughts For The Residents Of Louisiana And Mississippi Attempting In Restoring Normalcy In The Wake Of Hurricane Zeta, And Those That Came Before

Porky Cohen

Michelle Willson, Vocals - A Brash, Big-Boned Trombonist Who Capped A Long, And Varied Career With Grammy Award Recipients "Roomful Of Blues"

Folk Soul Revival

Bristol, VA 2008 - Debut Release Is The Groundwork For The Quintet's Classic Influences And Timeless Twang

Joachim Cooder

Uncle Dave Wrote It In 1930 But Never Recorded It. A Test Pressing Was Discovered In The Macon Family Holdings In 1980 - Reinterpretations Have Been Handed Down For The Past Forty Years

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Second Installment Of Their Home Demo Series; A Third Volume Is Being Planned In The Coming Months - "Snapshots That Captured Moments The More Formal Portraits Missed." Gillian Welch

Sleepy John Estes

Sleepy John Estes Was Born Into A Sharecropping Family In 1899. During The 1920's Sleepy John Long And Time Associates Hammie Nixon And Yank Rachell Played In Various Jug Band Around Memphis, Gigged Around The Southern Circuit With Robert Nighthawk And Sonny Boy The First, Eventually Recording Their First Thirty Sides In Chicago. Sleepy John Faded Into Obscurity During The 1950's, However, Became An Important And Influential Re-discovery Of The Folk/Blues Revival Of The Early 60's. John Adam Estes Passed Away In 1977

Sleepy John Estes

January 25, 1899 TN - June 5, 1977 TN

Charles Mingus Septet

Horace Parlan, Piano......Jimmy Knepper, Trombone...Pepper Adams, Baritone Saxophone...Dannie Richmond, Drums...Booker Ervin, Tenor Saxophone...John Handy, Alto Saxophone...Charles Mingus, Bass - Mingus Had A Talent For Driving His Fellow Musicians Onwards And Upwards; 'My Jelly Roll Soul' Showcases One Of The Six Servings Of This Brilliance

Blind Lemon Pledge

San Francisco, CA

Gibson Brothers

Leigh And Eric Are Out Of Upstate New York

Guy Clark

Would Have Turned 78 This Past Friday

Appalachian Road Show

Traditional Ballad Folk Song - Listed As Number 410 In The Roud Folk Song Index

New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers

Reworking The Memphis Jug Band, 1931

Rayna Gellert

Elkhart, IN