Agatsuma

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

Jeannie C. Riley

Classic Jeannie C.!

Dr. John

One Of The Standards Of The New Orleans Brass Band Tradition, First Published In 1916

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Betty Roche, 1944 - With the Earl Hines Sextet - A Sporadic Career, Sang With Lester Young And Hot Lips Page - During The 1940's Performed At Minton's Playhouse With Thelonious Monk And Kenny Clarke

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Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

Third Full-Length Release From The Band - The Eight-Piece Collective Navigating New Territories Together Tempered With The Soulful R&B Of Their Beloved St. Louis

Shannon And The Clams

Oakland, CA - A Vintage Sound That Incorporates Elements Of Doo-Wop, Classic R&B, Garage Psych, And Surf - Tunes From The Latest Long-Play "Year Of The Spider" Are Heard Here On 'YCE

Joe Wilson and Drew Howard

Mitten Swingin'!

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A Well-Rounded Tribute To The Late Singer/Songwriter

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King Edward Antoine

Running Through Merle Haggard's Classic - The Authenticity Of A Mississippi Bluesman Is Felt Down Deep - King Is Honored On Three Blues Markers On The Mississippi Blues Trail

Little Eva

Written By Cynthia Weil And Barry Mann For The Crystals In 1962 - That Same Year Litta Eva Released It As The B-Side To Up On The Roof, Written By Another Brill Building Songwriting Team, Carole King And Gerry Goffin - Little Eva Was Hot Off The Locomotion

Nick Lowe

Reworking The 1966 Multi-Chart Topper By Johnny Rivers, Recently Celebrating Number 79 - The Reissue Of The Twenty-Year Anniversary Of "The Convincer", A Quintessential Portrait Of Lowe's Third Act. The Album's Unfussy, Minimalist Production Harkens Back To The Early Days When Nick Was Called Basher, Satisfied After The First Or Second Take - Moving On To The Next Thrill, A Breakneck Pace Reflected In The Music He Made With And Without 'Rockpile'

Hank Penny And His Radio Cowboys

Practitioner Of Western Swing, Modeling The Radio Cowboys' Repertoire On Milton Brown And His Musical Brownies; Brown The Co-Founder Of Western Swing

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A Collection Of Some Old Spirituals And Gospel, First Recorded In Memphis During The1970's; A Lost Chapter Of Gospel, Saved From Extinction

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Ammar El Sherei

A True Colossus Of Egyptian Music - A Child Prodigy Who Grew To Become Both A Daring Innovator And A Celebrated Composer

The Bellfuries

Lakewood, OH

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Composers: Isaac Hayes And Dave Porter, 1966 - Dee Dee Returning To Her Birthtown Of Memphis And Recording A Few Of The Iconic Sounds Of That City

Edison Kitt

GR Vibe - Edison Kitt & The Strangers At The Tip Top Deluxe On 11/19; Stovepipe Opening

John Gorka

Gorka And Richard Shindell Formed The Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band Early On - John Gorka Has Always Been Able To Spin A Good Yarn

Eddie From Ohio

Northern VA 1999 - Observing Thirty-Years Together - Nationwide Following, All Outside The Purview Of Major Record Labels

Tony Hollins

Cited As A Major Influence On John Lee Hooker, Few Details Are Known Of The Life Of Tony Hollins. His First Recordings In 1941 Included A Performance Of Crawlin' King Snake, Serving As The Blueprint For John Lee's Own Later Rendition. Recording Sporadically Throughout The Forties, Hollins Failed To Maintain A Career As A Musician, Opting To Continue His Trade As A Barber. Tony Hollins Passed On In 1957

Tony Hollins

Blues Spotlight: June 25, 1909 MS - January ? 1957 IL

Grant Green Qunitet

'820' Jazz Presents: Ike Quebec, Tenor Saxophone...Sonny Clark, Piano...Sam Jones, Bass...Louis Hayes, Drums...Grant Green, Guitar - - - - - - - A 1962 Recording Session For Blue Note Records, Engineered By Rudy Van Gelder, And Not Seeing The Light Of For Twenty-Five Years. Green Is One Of The Great Unsung Heroes Of Jazz Guitar, A Severely Underrated Player During His Lifetime, And Like Stanley Turrentine, Tends To Be Left Out Of The Books. Green's Roots Is the Hard-Bop Idiom, And It Is In This Setting With A Quintet Complement He Excels. This Morning's Feature Track Is Outer Space, And We Hear It From Vintage Vinyl

Joshua Ray Walker

Once The Best-Kept Secret On Dallas' Music Scene, "Wish You Were Here" Is The First Album Of A Trilogy Song Cycle Using Honky-Tonk As A Setting, and The Misfits Who Call It Home

Town Mountain

Pickin' It Sweet From The Blue Ridge Mountains

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Traditional Irish Reel

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The Quintet's Straight-Ahead Virtuosity Was A Constant Force On the West Coast Roots Scene In The Early 1990's

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Kathy Kallick

A True Heroine In The Pantheon Of Bluegrass Musicians - A.P. Carter Wrote The Song In 1928, Adapting The Lyrics From A Late Nineteenth Century Parlour Song