Larry Carlton

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

Commander Cody

Classic Lineup Came Together In Ann Arbor, 1967

GA-20

Tip Of The Fedora To the Great Hound Dog Taylor - Posthumously Inducted Into The Blues Hall Of Fame. 1984

Willie Hightower

With A Swagger Reminiscent Of Sam Cooke, And Decades As a Member Of The Drifters, Hightower Rolls With A Muscle Shoals Groove On The Joe South Classic

Sensational Nightingales

Traditional Black Gospel Quartet Founded 1942

The Po' Ramblin' Boys

Mitten Appearance: Charlotte Bluegrass Festival 6/24 - The Festival Is Celebrating Fifty-Years Of Top-Tier Pickin'

Mollie O'Brien and Rich Moore

One Part Maria Muldaur, One Part Suzy Bogguss & One Part Ella Fitzgerald - Stunning Instrumental Chops; Masters Of Melding Of Many Styles

The Delevantes

Producer: Garry Tallent - They Remind Me Of The Everly Brothers Covering BoDeans' Songs

Ceramic Animal

Produced By Dan Auerbach - Grrrrrreat! Band

Willie Nelson

Undercover: Hank Williams - We Lost Bobbie Nelson, Willie's Sister, Confidant And Piano Player For Fifty-Years In March At The Age Of 91 - Willie Turns 89 Later This Month

COMPILATIONS

Musical Collection Of Stories Built Upon The Voices Of Local Women In Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua And Guatemala - The Garifuna People Are Residents Of These Countries' Caribbean Coasts

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Kermit Ruffins

With The Rebirth Brass Band - Heavily Influenced By Louis Armstrong And Louis Jordan

Son House

Edward James "Son" House Jr. - Referred To As The Father Of The Delta Blues - A Contemporary Of Charley Patton; Formative Influence On Robert Johnson And Muddy Waters - This Album Recorded In 1964 - Never Released Until Now - Thanks To Dan Auerbach And Easy Eye Sound Recordings

Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends

Queen Of Kansas City Blues When The City Was A Center Of The Jazz And Blues Universe

Ray Wylie Hubbard

A Gathering Of Friends On The New Album

Carrie Elkin

Charismatic Troubadour With A Roaming Spirit - A Little Appalachian Air With A Nashville Twang

Wood & Wire

Austin, TX - The Foundation Of Their Musical Wheelhouse Is An Amalgamation Of Each Members Diverse Influences Growing Up

Steppin' In It

Lansing, MI - Reworking The Great Woody Guthrie

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Johnie Lewis

Blues Spotlight: Johnie Lewis Was Born In Alabama, Grew Up in Georgia, And Spent Most Of His Life In Chicago, Moving To The City In The 1930s. An Accomplished Slide Guitarists, Lewis Was A Painter By Profession, And Only Pursued Music As An Avocation, But Through One Of His Painting Jobs, He Came To The Notice Of A Filmmaker Doing A Documentary About Chicago Blues. His Appearance In That Film Lead To Recording Sessions For Arhoolie Records In The Early '70s, Recording Only One Album. West Michigan's Killer Blues Headstone Project Has Placed A Headstone On The Unmarked Grave Of Johnie Lewis.

Johnie Lewis

Blues Spotlight: October 8, 1908 AL - October 6, 1992 IL

Big John Patton Quintet

'820' Jazz Presents: Fred Jackson, Tenor Saxophone...Grant Green, Guitar..Richard Williams, Trumpet...Ben Dixon, Drums...Big John Patton, Hammond B-3 - - - - - - Third Outing For Big John Patton, Recorded In Mid-1964 And Released On the Blue Note Labels. Expanding The Band To A Quintet, Patton Melds A Taste Of Hard-Bop Elements With His Renowned Soul-Jazz Leanings, Incorporate Elements Of Modal And Free Jazz, Without Ever Losing The Basic, Earthy Groove That He Brought To It From The Beginning - A True Testament To The Blue Note Stable

Nathan Kalish

One Of GR's Best - Now Based In Nashville, Kalish Brings His Cultivated Collection Of Story Songs, And Song-Cycles To GR's Listening Room 4/9 (Saturday)

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Stillhouse Junkies

Durango, CO - Award-Winning Original Roots Music

The McGee Brothers

This Morning's Vintage Pick - Sam And Kirk McGee Were One Of The Most Enduring Acts On The Grand Ole Opry, Making Their Initial Appearance On The Opry In 1926, And The Following Year Joined Uncle Dave Macon's Band, The Fruit Jar Drinkers - The McGee Brothers Saw A Brief Resurgence During The Folk Revival; Mike Seeger Managed To Reunite Them With Fiddler Arthur Smith

The Stray Birds

Started As A Duo Of Acoustic Buskers On The Streets Of Lancaster - No Longer Together

COMPILATIONS

Jean Ritchie. 1971 - Ultimately Responsible For The Revival Of The Appalachian Dulcimer - Raised In The Cumberland Mountains Learning The Traditional Folk Songs, Many Of Which Were Appalachian Variants Of Centuries Old British And Irish Songs Passed Down Through Oral Tradition

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Ian Noe

Beattyville, KY - Noe's Second Release; Songwriting And A Voice That Belies His Thirty-Two Years - These Songs Trickle Throughout The Homelands Of Eastern Kentucky

Tony Furtado

National Bluegrass Banjo Champion Twice; Roots Innovator; Sculptor - Influences: Ry Cooder, David Lindley And Taj Mahal