Hugh Masekela

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

The Nighthawks

The Legendary Band Thirty-First Release

Lizzy Plotkin & Natalie Spears

Special Guest: Courtney Hartman, Guitar - Musical Traditions Of The Rocky Mountains

Curtis Stigers

1908 Tin Pan Alley Song; Official Anthem Of North American Baseball, Traditionally Sung During The Seventh Inning Stretch - The Whitecaps Are Scheduled To Open A Six-Game homestand On May 11th

Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton

Composer Bo Carter, 1928 - Vintage Mississippi Sheiks

Weldon H. "Juke Boy" Bonner

Bellville, TX - One Of The Great Interpreters Of The Blues Influenced By The Big Three, Lightnin' Hopkins, Jimmy Reed And Slim Harpo

Dickey Betts & Great Southern

Composer: Don Johnson - Dickey's Second Solo, And The One And Only Recording With 'Great Southern'

The Tornados

Telestar 1 And 2 Were Communication Satellites Launched In 1961 & 1962 - Though No Longer Functional - Still Orbit The Earth

Johnny Burgin

First-Ever American Compilation Of Some Of The Best Japanese Bluesmen And Women Playing Along Chicago Gun-Slinger Johnny Burgin

Dr. John

Composer: Johnny Mercer, 1938

Waylon Jennings And The Waylors

Taking Control Of His Career, The Album Is Third In A Series Of Albums That Established Jennings As One Of The Most Prominent Representatives Of The Outlaw Country Movement

The Mollys

Tucson, AZ - The Quintet Meld Two Traditional Styles Together, sharing The Enthusiasm For Squeeze-Box Polkas And Barroom Ballads

The Mike + Ruthy Band

Richard Manuel, April 3, 1943 - March 4, 1986 (42)

The Band

Richard Manuel, Lead Vocal - The Five Founders Existed From December 1961 As The Hawks, Becoming The Band In 1967, Effectively Breaking Up In 1976, Then Re-Formed In 1983, And Continuing Until Richard's Passing By His Own Hand On March 4, 1986 - A Few Hours After The Band Performed A Show In Winter Park, FL

Barbara Dane

The 1928 Basin Street Classic Recorded At The Ash Grove

Sam Lewis

After Spending A Nomadic Youth Throughout The Southeast, Singer-Songwriter Sam Lewis Began Calling Nashville Home in 2009; Joined On His Journey By Some Of Music's Most Righteous And Luminary Figures

The Whiskey Charmers

Detroit, MI - The Duo Is Beginning To Book Dates Beginning In May

Goergia 'Lawson' White And Jimmie Noone

Though Little Is Known Of The Early Life Of Barrelhouse Blues Vocalist Georgia White, Documents Indicate Of Her Singing In Chicago Nightclubs By The Late 1920's. Miss White's Most Prolific Years Began In 1935, Recording Over One-Hundred Tracks By The Mid-40's, And For A Short Time Forming An All-Female Band. Big Bill Broonzy Hired Her As The Pianist For His Laughing Trio. Returning To Nightclub Work In 1950, Miss White Spent Ten More Years On The Chicago Club Circuit. Georgia Lawson White Passed On In 1980.

Georgia 'Lawson' White

Blues Spotlight: March 9, 1903 Georgia (?) - ?/?/1980 IL (?)

Mulgrew Miller Trio

'820' Jazz Presents: Derrick Hodge, Bass...Karriem Riggins, Drums...Mulgrew Miller, Piano

The Corn Fed Girls

Kalamazoo, MI

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Lester Flatt & Nashville Grass

Formed the Band In 1969 At The End Of His Partnership With Earl Scruggs And the Foggy Mountain Boys. Flatt Hired Most Of The Foggy Mountain Boys For The New Band, Including A Young Picker By The Name Of Marty Stuart

Erynn Marshall

Old-Time Fiddler With A Wonderful Reading Of The Appalachian Standard

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Nanci Griffith And John Stewart

John Stewart Lending His Highly-Respected Skills To Nanci Griffith's Sixth Release - Covering One Of Stewart's "Forgotten Songs"

R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders

Led By Underground Cartoonist Robert Crumb, The Retro String Band Was Founded In 1973, And Continues To This Day

The Piedmont Melody Makers

Composer: Maybelle Carter