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John Nemeth

'YCE Blues Alley Welcomes John's Latest

Grayson Capps

Turning 54 In A Few Days

Ella Fitzgerald

The Tapes Laid For Six Decades In the Vaults Of Verve Records - On The Cusp Of Something Bigger When She Began An Engagement At Zardi's Jazzland, In The Heart Of Hollywood During The First Several Weeks Of 1956

Aaron Lee Tasjan

Tasjan's Words Are Soaked In Spilled Whiskey, Misunderstood Tears And Dusty Memories

Burning Spear

Birthday Greetings; 76 A Few Days Ago

John Fahey

Enormously Influential Steel-String Guitarist Laying The Foundation For The Genre Of American Primitive Guitar - Fahey Left Us In 2001

Lucinda Williams

Lucinda And Her Wonderful Band Inviting A Short List Of Friends For A Recording Near And Dear To Heart, Paying Tribute To Bob Dylan, A Man Of Complex Celebrity; Moving Between Writing, Poetry, Storyteller, And Recipient Of The Nobel Prize In Literature

Elizabeth King

The 78 Year-Old's Debut Album Connects The Past And Future Of The Memphis Sacred Soul Scene. King Fronted The Gospel Souls In The 1970's, One Of The Few Women To Lead An All-Male Band - Stepped Away From Music In The 1980's To Raise Her 15 Children - The New Album Captures The Joy And Pain Of A Remarkable Life

Charley Crockett

Crockett Honors The Late Texas Songwriter James Hand; A Mentoring Influence to Many With His Mainstay Of Classic, Unabridged Honky-Tonk Music

Little Joe Y Sus Latainaires

A Pioneer Of The Next Generation Of Orquesta Tejana - Evolving From The Influence Beto Villa, Widely Considered Along With Isidro Lopez The Father Of The Orquesta Tejana

Bukka White, Washboard Sam And Memphis Minnie

These Early Sessions Are Revered As Being Among The Finest In Blues History; Regarded As Being The Last Great Country Blues Recording Sessions Of The Pre-War Blues Era

Andes Manta

Ecuadorian Musicians The Brothers Lopez Perform The Vibrant, Centuries-Old Sounds Of The Andes Mountains On 35 Traditional Instruments

Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell

Emmylou Turning 74 This Past Friday - The Two Have Had Many Collaborations Over The Years, Dating Back To Crowell's Time As A Member Of Harris' Hot Band

Erin Harp ft. Jim Countryman

Undercover: Hambone Willie Newbern, 1929 - The Two Co-Founders Of the 'Delta Swingers' Collaborating On A Duet Project; A Labor Of Love With Invigorating Takes On A Few Delta Blues Classics

Dale Watson & The Memphians

Owning One Of The Best Pure Country Voices Around, Watson Let His Highly Skilled Guitar Do The Talking Across This Album, Honoring The Deep Roots Of The Music Of Memphis - 'Deep Eddy' Is A Tip Of The Hat To Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Duane Eddy

The Kingston Trio

A Bahamian Folk Song From Nassau Published As "The John B. Sails" In 1916 - A Field Recording By The Cleveland Simmons Group Was Captured By Folklorist Alan Lomax In 1935 - Twenty-Three Years Later The Kingston Trio Would Include It On Their Debut Album, Entering The Charts In October Of '58, And Residing For Nearly Four Years

Joanne Shenandoah And A. Paul Ortega

The Voices And Guitars Of Two Nations Joining Original Songs About The Ways Of Living And Loving Among Native Peoples

The Aces

Blues Spotlight: One Of The Earliest And Most Influential Of The Electric Chicago Blues Bands In The 1950's, Led By Brothers Louis And Dave Myers. With The Addition Of Harmonica Player Junior Wells, They Rechristened Themselves The Three Deuces And Then The Three Aces. Wells Quit In 1952 To Join The Muddy Waters Band, Filling The Vacancy Created By The Departure Of Little Walter. Walter Then Signed The Remaining Aces As His New Backing Unit, Renaming The Trio The Jukes. A Series Of Seminal Recordings Followed - Until Louis Myers Left The Band In 1958. The Resulting Gradual Dissolution Of The Jukes As Little Walter's Band Freed The Members To Reform As A Premier Backing Band For Other Chicago Blues Musicians; A Journey That Took Them Into The 1980's.

The Aces

Blues Spotlight: Active 1950's

Miles Davis Quintet

'820' Jazz - Jimmy Cobb, Drums...Wynton Kelly, Piano...John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone...Paul Chambers, Bass...Miles Davis, Trumpet - - - - - - The 1961 Album Is The Seventh Release For Davis. Although In Quintet Formation, It Marked A Transitional Period; Wynton Kelly Replacing The Recently Departed Red Garland - The Second Great Quintet Would Be Birthed Three Years Later. 'Someday My Prince Will Come' Is Observing Its Sixty-Year Anniversary; We Move In Several Cuts Deep For "Teo", Here On Traditions!

Rotondi

Formed In 1984 Out Of A Collective Of L.A. Roots Musicians Escaping The Quantized World Of MTV

Spring Creek Bluegrass Band

Lyons, CO - The Pickers Are No Longer Together

Michelle Billingsley

Michigan Raised, Chicago Based By Way Of Los Angeles

John Duffey

The Great John Duffey, Foundered Two Of The Most Influential Groups In Bluegrass, The Country Gentlemen And The Seldom Scene - Inducted To The International Bluegrass Music Hall Of Honor

The Stanley Brothers With George Shuffler

George Shuffler Adding His Hi-Lonesome Tenor To The Supreme Harmonies Of Ralph And Carter Stanley - Easter Greetings

Jean Redpath

Scottish Folk Singer And Music Educator With Just One Of Many The Worldwide Reinterpretations Of "Sonny's Dream", Composed By The Late Ron Hynes