Richard Howell

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

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Co-Founder Of The Ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock, heard Here On 'YCE - Ph.D. In Cultural History, Centered On The Role Of Music

Sarah King and The Smoke Rings

Hayseed Dixie

A Quartet Of Nashville Pickers Whose Specialty Is Putting The Pick To Number One Rock Anthems, And Original Songs Of A Mostly Satirical In Nature In A Self-Created Genre Which The Band Calls "Rockgrass."; The Band's Name Is A Linguistic Play On The Name Of The Band AC/DC

Reed Turchi

A Four-Year Project For Turchi - Fresh Blues Into The 'YCE Blues Alley

James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band

Ann Arbor Bandleader And Musicologist Who Was Instrumental In Solidifying Jelly Roll Morton's Place In The Jazz Pantheon

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

First Release From The Forthcoming Longplay

Clarence Garlow

American R&B, Jump Blues And Cajun Guitarist Credited With Introducing The Louisiana Music Form To A National Audience

Noam Pikelny

Multi-Award Winning Banjoist

Mary Rademacher & Rick Reuther

GR Swingin'!

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Dimitris Mistakidis

Greek Folk Guitar Virtuoso And Rembetiko Revitaliser - Rembetiko: Greek Urban Blues, Comprising Several Forms Of Music That Evolved In Greece And Greek Speaking Parts Of The Ottoman Empire During The Mid To Late 19th Century - The Music Emerged Out Of The Poorer Quarters Of Athens; The Hash Dens, Cabarets, Brothels And Prisons

Dulcie Taylor

Past Member Of The Board Of Directors Of The Poetry Series At Washington, D.C.'s Folger Shakespeare Library

Danny Gatton

The Late Guitarists' Fifth Album - Known For The Incredibly Wide Stylistic Range Of His Playing

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Composers: Alan Lomax And Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter - A Re-Issue Of The Original Album, Young Brigham In 1968

Martin Simpson, Nancy Kerr & Andy Cutting

19th American Folklore About A Man Pursuing His Riches In California, And The Girl Back Home Marrying Another Man

Edward P. "Carolina Slim" Harris

Born In 1923 North Carolina, Carolina Slim's Technique Is Steeped In The Piedmont Style, And The Influence Of Blind Boy Fuller Is Evident In His Fingerpicking. He Earned His Living In The 40's Playing On Streetcorners throughout The South. Signing To Savoy Records In 1950, Slim Relocated To The New Jersey Headquarters Recording Twenty-Seven Sides. This Would Be Extent Of His Recording Career; Details Of His Life Outside Of Music Is Scant, Though He Did Have A Penchant Of Using Several Pseudonyms. Edward P. Harris Passed On In 1953 At The Age Of Thirty

Edward P. "Carolina Slim" Harris

August 22, 1923 NC - October 22, 1953 NJ

Cal Tjader Sextet

'820' Jazz Presents: Willie Bobo, Bongos...Al McKibbon, Bass...Jose Silva, Tenor Saxophone...Mongo Santamaria, Congas...Vince Guaraldi, Piano...Cal Tjader, Vibraphone - - - - Few Musicians Have Matched Cal Tjader's Success At Blending Cross-Cultural Elements In A Jazz Setting; Cemented By The Lasting Impact Was The Quality Of The Sidemen Enlisted To Carry Out His Musical Ideas

Rhonda Vincent & Dolly Parton

Multiple Grammy-Award Recipient - One Of Two Duets On The Album; Bobby Osborne Also Joins Rhonda On a Reading Of The Osborne Brother's Classic Midnight Angel

Cowboy Copas

Achieved National Fame When He Replaced Eddy Arnold As A Vocalist In The Pee Wee King Band On the Opry - Copas Lost His Life In The 1963 Plane Crash That Also Took The Lives Of Patsy Cline And Hawkshaw Hawkins

Bad Livers

The Austin Band Is No Longer Together - In their Heyday The Quartet Defied Attempts To Categorize Them According To Existing Genres

COMPILATIONS

Levon Helm, Vocals - An Album By Several Artists Of Various Genres Who Were Tasked With Setting Music To The Lyrics Of Hank Williams. The Notebook Of Handwritten, Unfinished Lyrics Were Found By The Police Investigating The Auto Accident That Took Williams' Life On New Year's Day, 1953

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Melissa Carper

New Into 'YCE From The Seasoned Wayfarer - We Know Her As A Member Of The Carper Family, Heard Here On 'YCE, And With Rebecca Patek In The Roots Driven Bands Sad Daddy And Buffalo Gals

The Fabulous Heftones

The Lansing Duo Putting Their Unique Spin On The 1929 Standard

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Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird

Co-Founding Members Of The Squirrel Nut Zippers