Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

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

COMPILATIONS

Tito Paris, Cape Verde - Forty Years On The Global Stage

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Derrick Morgan

An Early Classic Ska Hit Celebrates The 1962 Independence of Jamaica

Elizabeth King

Memphis Sacred Soul Singer - During the 1970's Elizabeth King Was One Of The Few Women Leading An All-Male Group, Elizabeth King & The Gospel Souls - Stepping Away For Four Decades The 77 Year Old Has Released Her First Full-Length Album

Catfish Keith

Catfish Keith Getting The Feel For A Blind Blake Stomp

Dianne Reeves

A Wonderful Vocal Outing By Miss Reeves On The Jazz Standard Composed by Cuban Percussionist And Bandleader Mongo Santamaria during His Time With The Cal Tjader Sextet

Sturgill Simpson

The Project 'Grasses Up Reworkings Of Simpson's Lengthy Catalog

Lynryd Skynyrd

Third Studio Album - First Record With Drummer Artimus Pyle

Morgan Haner

A Working-Class Songsmith From Kalamazoo, MI

Those Darn Accordions!

San Francisco's Squeezebox Crusaders Paying Tribute to One Of Their Own. In Addition Hosting The Lawrence Welk Show For Thirty Years, Welk Was Awarded Four US Design Patents; All Four Accordion Themed - Gee, Go Figure

Ray Charles

Landline Suggestion - Freedom Founded July 4, 1776

Resistance Revival Chorus

Guest Voices Include Rhiannon Giddens And Valerie June

JP Harris & Chance McCoy

JP's Latest Old-Time Music Project With Old Friend Chance McCoy, Interpretations Of 17th, 18th, And 19th Century Folk Ballads Recorded At McCoy's Homestead In The Remote Mountains Of Southeastern West Virginia

Neil Young

Young's 26th Album

Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers

San Francisco, 2008 - After Eight Years The Band Is Longer Together - Solo Projects Came Calling

The Byrds

Dylan's Alter Ego The Byrd's Performing A Timeless Cover Of A Song That In Many Ways Rings True To This Day

Darcy Wilkin

Longtime Member Of Kalamazoo's The Corn Fed Girls

Robert "Smoky Babe" Brown

Blues Spotlight - Is One Of The Most Intriguing Bluesmen That Ever Lived, One Of Those Rare Bluesmen Who Was Raw But Refined In His Approach, And Always Delivered The Goods. Born In Mississippi, Babe Travelled The Southern Circuit With Lazy Lester, Making Their Way To Louisiana. LSU Folklorist Dr. Harry Oster Discovered Babe Playing The Street Corners Of Baton Rouge, And Recorded A Catalog Of Thirty Songs Over Two Years. Little Is Known Of Smoky Babe's Life Other Than These Recordings. One Thing Is For Certain, One Can Hear Echoes Of The Guitar Styles Of John Lee Hooker, Bukka White, Big Joe Williams And Tommy McClennan Resonating Throughout His Country Blues - Robert Brown Passed On In 1973.

Robert "Smoky Babe" Brown

Blues Spotlight - July 31, 1927 MS - May ? 1973 LA

Kenny Burrell

'820' Jazz Presents: Benny Green, Piano...Peter Washington, Bass...Clayton Cameron, Drums...Tivon Pennicott, Saxophone...Kenny Burrell, Guitar - - Another Outstanding Late Career Recording By One Of Jazz's True Standard-Bearer. At The Time Of This Recording Burrell Had Just Turned 78, And His Guitar Chops Were In True Form In A Live Setting Captured At New York City's Lincoln Center. A Leading Exponent Of Straight-Ahead Jazz Guitar, Burrell's Outstanding Quartet Runs Through A 10-Selection Musical Tribute To Duke Ellington And Dizzy Gillespie; Both With Whom Burrell Played For Many Years. The Detroit Jazzman Is Turning 90 In Late July; We Now Hear One Dizzy's Diamonds From 1951 - This Is 'Tin Tin Deo' On '820' Jazz

The Brothers Comatose

The Brothers Comatose Forge Their Own Path With Raucous West Coast Renderings Of Genre-Bending Roots & Roll

Boy Golden

Reworking Tom T. Hall's Classic With a Hazy Twist

Del Rio Ramblers

Retro Honky-Tonkers Out Of The United Kingdom; Disbanding In '015

Sierra Ferrell

Left Small Town West Virginia To Journey Across The Country With A Troupe Of Nomadic Musicians, Playing Everywhere From Truck Stops To Alleyways To Freight-Train Boxcars - Now Residing In Nashville, Sierra's Debut Hits The Streets In August

Samuel James

Portland-Based Award Winning Bluesman; Mainstage Storyteller

Tony Furtado & Dirk Powell

Tag Team Tour Guides Of The Roots Music World

K.C. Jones

Is Growing In The Vibrant Lafayette, LA Music Scene Taking Her Stake Squarely At The Center Of The Progressive, Genre-Bending Roots Music Movement