Chucho Valdes

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

Billy Strings & Don Julin

HandMade In The Mitten! - Jammie Award Winners

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Tony Bennett

Ninety-Four Year Old Living Legend - Interpreter Of Song - Painter Under The Name "Benedetto" - An American Original

J.D. Short

Delta Bluesman With A Distinctive Vibrato-Laden Singing Voice - Cousin tT Big Joe Williams And David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Began Recording In The 1930's, Disappeared From The Music Industry For Over Two Decades Before Re-Emerging During The Blues Revival Of The 1960's

Webb Wilder

Hattiesburg, MS Native Son Working In A Bluesy Sway To The Charlie Rich Classic

Bow Thayer

With Guest Collaborator Levon Helm

Rachel Brooke

HandMade In The Mitten! Rachel Is From The Band 'Modern Mal' Releasing An Album '017, And Heard Here On 'YCE

Tony Rice

We Lost Tony At The Age Of 69 On Christmas Day - Flatpicking Master - Profoundly Influential Bluegrass Guitarist And Singer - Co-Founding Member In The David Grisman Quintet - Inductee Into The International Bluegrass Hall Of Fame

Georgie Fame & The Harry South Big Band

Legendary Musician

Banditos

Birmingham, AL - Members Had Played In Various Punk And Rock 'N' Roll Projects Around Birmingham - The Band's Sound Is Uniquely Their Own, An Amalgamation Of Backwoods Bluegrass, To Slinky Nods To Muscle Shoals Soul And Unexpected Bits Of Doo-Wop Sweetness

The Gourds

The Stylings Of Austin's Favorite Sons Crisscrosses The Roots-Music Spectrum With A Whacked-Out, Independent Spirit

Missy Burgess With The Blue Train

Revisiting Steve Earle (The Mountain)

Wailing Souls

Formed In 1966 As 'The Renegades' Bridging The Journey Between Ska And Reggae With A Infectious Rocksteady Groove

The Blasters

The Brothers Alvin Forming The Band In 1979 In Downey, CA - Rockin' Roots At Its Best

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New Orleans High Society

A Seasoned Octet With A Distinctive Interpretation Of The New Orleans Repertoire

Dirk Powell

Dirk's Continuing Artistic Vision Combines Deep-Running Roots In Rural American Tradition

S.G. Goodman

Hickman, KY

Joseph "Little Joe Blue" Valery, Jr.

Blues Spotlight: Was A Relatively Late Starter As A Blues Artist. Born In the Delta, Little Joe Was Raised In Detroit, Forming 'The Midnighters' In The Late 1950's, And Not Long After Relocating To Los Angeles Where The Club Work Was Steady And Recording Contracts Plentiful. Recording For a Number Of Labels, Little Joe's Output Was Steady, But Only A Couple Of Hits Got Attention. At The End Of A Lengthy Tour Of Europe Representing The United States On The International Jazz And Blues Festival, Little Joe Settled In Nevada, Establishing Himself As The Go To Session Guitarist For The Better Part Of The 1980's. Joseph Valery, Jr. Passed On In 1990.

Joseph "Little Joe Blue" Valery, Jr.

Blues Spotlight: September 23, 1934 MS - April 22, 1990 NV

McCoy Tyner Quartet

'820' Jazz Presents: Joe Lovano, Saxophone...Jeff "Tain'' Watts, Drums...Christian McBride, Bass...McCoy Tyner, Piano - - - - - - - The Album Represents A Return To The Quartet Configuration, Back In The Studio With A Combo Of Jazz Heavyweights Catching The Groove Early On, A Solid Tempo Harkening Back To His Days With John Coltrane; Five Years Of Ground-Breaking Genius.

B-Side Growlers

GR Emissions! - Jammie Award Winners

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Lester Flatt & Earl Scurggs w/ Mother Maybelle Carter

Passed Down By Oral Tradition, The Lyrics Vary From Version To Version; The Chorus Usually Goes Unchanged - Recorded By The Carter Family In 1930

Ernest V. "Pop" Stoneman

Mountain Shout: Virginia Autoharpist Ranked Among The Prominent Recording Artists Of Country Music's First Commercial Decade with His Rendering Of American Train Song (1927)

Appalachian Road Show

Composers Dorsey Dixon And Wade Mainer Around The Time Of The Great Depression As A Tongue-In-Cheek Protest To The newly Introduced, And Largely Despised State Governments' Sales Taxes

Reed Turchi & His Kudzu Choir

Turchi Learned Slide Guitar Firsthand From The Last Blues Masters Of North Mississippi

COMPILATIONS

Willie Nelson Taps Into The Darker Side Of The Townes Van Zandt Song Canon - We Lost Van Zandt On New Year's Day, 1997

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