Dave McMurray

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

Watkins Family Hour

Special Guest Vocals: Fiona Apple - Appearing: 12/16 At St. Cecilia Music Center; Courtney Hartman Supporting -

Beatrice "Bea" Foote

Not As Well-Known As Contemporaries Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter And Ethel Waters - Miss Foote Was Known For The Edgier Side Of Subject Matter On Her Chosen Songs - Blessed With A Strong Vibrato She Put To Good Use In Her Recordings With Bluesman Sammy Price

The Klezmatics

Susan McKeown, Vocals - The Album Features Lyrics By Woody Guthrie Which Were Unrecorded During His Life - Grammy Award Recipient

Jason Isbell

With The 400 Unit - Appearing Thursday At Devos Performance Hall (8/26)

K.D. Lang

Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn And Brenda Lee Joing K.D. On The Honky Tonk Angels Medley covering Leroy Carr, Ernest Tubb And The Delmore Brothers

John Sebastian and David Grisman

First Collaboration Since Meeting In 1964 As Members Of The Even Dozen Jug Band - The Band Also Included the Heavy Talents Of Stefan Grossman, Maria d'Amato (Later Muldaur) Steve Katz And Joshua Rifkin

Leon Russell

Undercover: Bob Dylan - The Rock And Roll Of Famers Second Solo Album - Began Playing The Piano At The Age Of Four - While Attending High School In Oklahoma, Leon Joined Up with David Gates In An Early Collaboration As The Fencemen

Kat Eaton

Sheffield, UK - Inspirational Roots Inspirations Courtesy Of Little Feat, Tedeschi Trucks, And Amy Winehouse

Jimmie C. Newman & Cajun Country

First Released: 1960, Cleveland Crochet & Hill Billy Ramblers - The "C" Stands For Cajun - Long-Time Favorite On The Grand 'Ole Opry - In 1959, Newman Relinquished One Of His Two Allotted Slots To Allow An Unknown Singer To Perform; 13 Year-0ld Dolly Parton

Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon

Trained By the Masters In Hindustani, Carnatic, And Western Music Traditions - Soul Call Topped World Music Charts And Garnered A Grammy Nomination - Tandon's Serene And Mesmerizing Voice Has Been Heard In Major Venues Around The World

Barbara Dane

With The Chambers Brothers - An African American Spiritual Of Disputed Origin, But Known To Be Sung In The Gullah Culture Of The Islands Off The Coasts Of South Carolina And Georgia As Early As 1926

John Hiatt

With The Goners - John Turned 69 This Past Friday - Hiatt and The Jerry Douglas Band Appearing 11/10 At the Royal Oak Music Theater

Dar Williams

Appearing: 12/12 At The Ark, Ann Arbor

Dylan Leblanc

The Louisiana Troubadour Reworking The Great Jimmy Hartford

Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra

Oslo, Norway - Scandinavian Ensemble Blending Together The Influences Of Anglo-Saxon Folk, Appalachian Old Time Music And Norwegian Folklore

Buster Brown

Not A Household Name, But The Legendary Blues Singer Buster Brown Inspired Both The Rolling Stones And The Beach Boys. Born In Georgia, Brown Blew Sweet-Sounding Harmonica At Local Clubs Prior To Relocating To NYC. Fire Records Owner Bobby Robinson Discovered Brown In The Mid-50's And Signed Him To His Only Known Recording Contract. Brown Did See Some Commercial Success, But It Was Short-Lived. A Contract With Chess Records Went Mostly Unnoticed. Buster Brown Passed On In 1976.

Buster Brown

August 15, 1911 GA - January 31, 1976 NY

Al Di Meola

Gumbi Ortiz, Percussion...Dino Saluzzi, Bandoneon...Arto Tuncboyaciyan, Congas...Al Di Meola, Guitars - First Album From Di Meola's Acoustic Fusion Ensemble, Melding Together A Palette Of International Musical Strains, Inspired By Argentinian Tango Maestro, Astor Piazzolla. Di Meola Surrounds Himself With World Musicians At The Top Of Their Game, With Performances Highlighting The Interaction Of Each Member, Individual Strengths To The Whole Of World Sinfonia.

Dave Van Ronk

Original Release: Dave Van Ronk And the Ragtime Jug Stompers, 1964 - One Of The Important Figures In The American Folk Music Revival And New York City's Greenwich Village Scene In The 1960's; Nicknamed The Mayor Of MacDougal Street - Dylan's First Musical Guru - On Stealin', Van Ronk Works Through The 1929 Classic By The Memphis Jug Band

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Fourteen Years After The Award-Winning Raising Sand, Plant And Krauss Release Raise The Roof On November 19th; Again Produced By T-Bone Burnett - The Song Written By Randy Weeks And Covered By Lucinda Williams In 1998

The Roe Family Singers

Old-Time Hillbilly Band Led By Husband/Wife Duo Kim and Quillan Roe - Adding Appalachian Clogging To The Sound, The Duo Present A Rollicking River Of Fresh Yet Familiar American Music - The Roots Of Ida Red Has Unknown Origins; A 1924 Recording By Fiddlin' Powers And Family Is Believed to Be The Earliest Recording - Believed To Be The Primary Inspiration For Chuck Berry's Mega Hit Maybellene

Britton Patrick Morgan

Debut Album: Grew Up In Eastern Kentucky's Coal Country - Darrell Scott Guesting On Pedal Steal

Don Spezia

Traverse City Guitar Virtuoso

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