Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer

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

Van Morrison

The Northern Irish Singing-Songwriting Legends Twenty-Sixth Release - The Title Track Is About The Tradition Of Belfast Street Singing

The Girls Of The Golden West

Mount Carmel, IL - Popular During The "Western Era" Of The 1930's And 1940's, Pioneers In Country Music At The Time

Reverend John Wilkins

Son Of The Influential Pre-War Blues Musician Reverend Robert Wilkins

Chuck Prophet

Part Of Southern California's American Psychedelic/Desert Rock Band 'Green on Red' During The 1980's - You Can Hear Selections From Chuck's New Album, 'The Land Time Forgot' Here On 'YCE

Larkin Poe

Nashville-Based By Way Of Atlanta, Sister Act Rebecca And Megan Lowell Putting Forth Their Special Brew Of Southern Hospitality - Roots And Roll At Its Best

Irma Thomas

Ponchatoula, LA - Referred To As The "Soul Queen Of New Orleans"

The Atomic Fireballs

Founded In Detroit In 1996; A Major Leader In The Swing Revival Genre

The Skatalites

The Ska Legends Loosely Formed In 1953 Beginning As A Ten Member Party Band - They Continue To Ignite Dance Floors Sixty-Seven Years On

Little Feat

First Album With Motor City Singer Shaun Murphy

Tommy Collins

Instrumental In Helping Create The Bakersfield Sound Of The Country Music Genre, Writing Several Songs For Merle Haggard & The Strangers

The Staple Singers

Inducted Into Both The Rock And Roll And the Gospel Halls Of Fame - Also Honored With A Marker On The Mississippi Blues Trail In Drew, Mississippi

Larry Keel & Natural Bridge

Manassas, VA, - One Of The Many Evolutions Of Larry Keel

Songhoy Blues

New Music Into 'YCE

Sue Foley

Undercover: Bob Dylan, 1965; Recorded During The Session For 'Highway 61 Revisited' And Released As A Single-Only Between That Album And 'Blond On Blond' - The Last Song Attempted On That Day, Its Working Title Was 'Black Dallie Rue'

Steve Forbert

Meridian, MS - Began His Career Busking The Streets Of Greenwich Village At Age Seventeen - Took His Guitar And Harmonica To CBGB Before Moving On To Legendary Folk Venues Kenny's Castaways And Folk City - Steve Turning Sixty-Six In A Couple Of Weeks

Abbey Girl And The Real Deal

New Music By The Orange County Quintet

Jeffrey Foucault

A Cross-Country Collision Of Rock, Country, And Folk Recorded In Just Three Days In Los Angeles - Billy Conway And Van Dyke Parks On The Sessions

Meade "Lux" Lewis And Pete Johnson

The Ace 'Boogie-Woogie' Pianist Rose To National Fame In The Late 30's When His Rocking Keyboard Music Was The Current Dance Craze. A Few Years Prior Lux Hooked Up With Fellow Pianists Albert Ammons And Pinetop Smith Playing Gigs Around Chicago Before A Solo Career Took Him to New York City And Playing With Pete Johnson And Big Joe Turner At The Seminal 'Spirituals To Swing' Concert At Carnegie Hall. Lewis Relocated To Los Angeles Where A New, Post-WWII Piano-Based Blues And R&B Scene Offered Regular Gigs. An Automobile Accident Claimed The Life Of Anderson Meade Lewis In 1964.

Meade "Lux" Lewis

September 4, 1905 IL - June 7, 1964 MN

Herbie Mann Sextet

'820 Jazz' Presents: Santo Mirando, Drums...Jose Luis Mangual, Bongos... Knobby Totah, Bass... Carlos Valdez, Congas...Johnny Rae, Vibraphone...Herbie Mann, Flute - - - - - - - Recorded Live At New York City's Basin Street East In June 1959, The First Of Mann's Deepening Immersion In Global Rhythms Documenting A Pan-Cultural Jazz Aesthetic That Points The Way For The Myriad World Music Efforts That Followed In Its Wake

Bill Haley & His Comets

The Original Septet Was Founded In 1952

Ricky Skaggs

With Kentucky Thunder

Darin And Brooke Aldridge

The Husband/Wife Duo Reworking The Richard Thompson Classic - You Can Find Richard's Version On The 1983 Album 'Hand Of Kindness' - Also A Major Hit For Jo-El Sonnier In the Late 1980's

Beau Jocque

The Coal Porters

Composer: Uncle Dave Macon, 1927

Jukejoint Handmedowns

GR Emissions!

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