Ronnie Earl

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

The Swanee Quintet

Origins 1939 - Old Style Vocal Group Who Over The Decades Have Travelled The Gospel Highway Playing Everything From Humble Storefront Churches To Madison Square Garden - Gospel Music Survivors

The Arcadian Wild

The Band Inhabits And Explores An Intersection Of Genres, Blending The Traditional With The Contemporary; Unified And Diverse

Queen Esther

Composer: Randy Meisner - Undercover: The Eagles - Member Of Guitarist James Blood Ulmer's Black Rock Experience

Joe Henry

The Jayhawks Joining The Three-Time Grammy Award Recipient And U Of M Graduate On Short Man' Room

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Marti Brom

St. Louis, MO - Bill Kirchen On Guitar

Turtle Island String Quartet

San Francisco Trio Founded In 1985 By Darol Anger

Allison Russell

(Our Native Daughter And Birds Of Chicago) - Steps Into Her Solo Artistry With The Forthcoming Album Due In Late May

Little Willie John

A Major Figure In R&B Music During The 1950's - Posthumously Inducted Into The Rock And Roll, Rhythm & Blues And Michigan Rock And Roll Legends Halls Of Fame

Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra

1940 Recording With Connie Hines & The Pied Pipers At The Beginning Of Sinatra's Five-Decade Singing Career

Loretta Lynn

Margo Price Joining The Soon To Be Eighty-Nine Year Country Music Legend On Loretta's Forty-Sixth Solo Album; A Mixture Of A Few Re-Worked Classics And New Material

Shakey Graves

The Re-Release Of Shakey's Debut Album Celebrating Its' Tenth Anniversary - Arriving April Second With An Additional Fifteen Aptly Titled Odds + ends

Kila

Quintet Of Dublin Schoolmates Forming The Band In 1987; Busking The Street A Few Years Before

W.C. Clark

Influencng The Austin Blues Scene Since The Late 1960's

Glenn Lee

A Member Of The Lee Boys, One Of the Most Celebrated Sacred Steel Ensembles

Erma Franklin

Aretha's Elder Sister With The First Recording Of The Legendary Song - Big Brother And The Holding Company One Year Later Made One The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame's 500 Song That Shaped Rock And Roll

Hardened And Tempered

Austin Based Story-Tellers Weaving Their Textured Harmonies And Spot-On Songwriting On The New Album, Produced By Lloyd Maines

Rhiannon Giddens & Francisco Turrisi

Street Date 4/9 - Traditional Fiddle Tune Recorded In 1929 By The Virginia Group Field Ward's Buck Mountain Band - Another Version Of The Song, Performed By the Ballard Branch Bogtrotters, Was Recorded By Folklorist Alan Lomax In 1937

Eugene "Sonny Boy Nelson" Powell

Delta Guitarist Sonny Boy Nelson Performed At An Early Age At Picnics And Suppers And For Prisoners At the Mississippi State Penitentiary. A Contemporary Of Charley Patton, Nelson Cut His First Six Sides In 1936, Being The Extent Of His Recording Career For Over Thirty Years Until Rediscovered During The Blues Revival Of The 1960's. He Continued To Play Well Into The Mid-1990's, With Younger Bluesman Lonnie Pitchford, Keb' Mo' Alvin Youngblood Hart Lauding His Influence. Eugene Powell Passed On In 1998.

Eugene "Sonny Boy Nelson" Powell

December 23, 1908 MS - November 4, 1998 MS

Les McCann Quintet

'820' Jazz Presents: James Rowser, Bass...Donald Dean, Drums...Buck Clarke, Percussion...Keith Loving, Guitar...Les McCann, Piano - - - - - -McCann Formed A Highly-Successful West Coast Trio In 1960 - A True Innovator Of Soul Jazz, And Early Adopter Of Electronic Instruments Into Jazz Music Cutting The Path For It's Own Genre. Major Influence On George Duke

Tumbledown House

Portland, OR - Modern Speakeasy Music - Writing Stories That May Revolve Around Shady Characters Down On Their Luck, Brothels With An Eccentric Clientele, Or A Scorned Woman Out For Revenge; Delicious!

Hylo Brown & The Timberliners ft. The Jordanaires

Influential Bluegrass Musician With A Career Spanning Fifty Years - Major Talent On the Wheeling Jamboree

Jack Cooke

Cousin Of The Legendary Dock Boggs - Go To Guitarist For Bill Monroe And Co-Founder Of Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys

Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Paying Tribute To The Songs Writer, The Late Chris Gaffney; Co-Founder Of The Hacienda Brothers Heard Here On 'YCE

Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton

Co-Founding Members Of The Be Good Tanyas

Micah Ling

GR Comfort

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