The Hellecasters

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

Eileen Rose

Saugus, MA - With Her Longtime Touring Band "The Holy Wreck" - On Occasion Hooks Up With The Legendary Rich Gilbert In The Rockin'-Roots Combo "The Silver Threads" Playing The Famous Honky-Tonks On Nashville's Lower Broadway

Ernie Hawkins

Piedmont Bluesman Taking The Reverend Gary Davis Undercover - Continues To Perform Around The Globe, And To Record, Teach, And Advocate For Blues Music

Joshua Hedley

Ace Fiddle Player, A Sharp Guitarist, And A Singer With A Granite Twang - Devoted, Lifelong Student Of Country Music - Hedley's Latest Album Examines An Often Forsaken Era Of Country: The Early '90s - The Last Bastion Of Country Music - This Is An Excellent Album

Jah Kings

Kalamazoo, MI - Put The Band Together In the Mid-1990's On Campus Of Western Michigan University

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The Astors - One Of The Least Commercially Successful Of The Early '60s Vocal Groups - Forming In 1958 In Memphis, Signed to Stax Records And Recorded Five Singles With Only One Success Being "Candy", Written By Steve Cropper

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The Allman Betts Band

Undercover: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Further Proof The Apple Doesn't Fall Too Far From The Tree

Allen Toussaint

Highly-Influential Figure In New Orleans Rhythm And Blues; One Of Popular Music's Great Backroom Figures - Inducted: Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, The Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame, The Songwriter's Hall Of Fame And The Blues Hall Of Fame - Awarded The National Medal Of Arts

Rachel Brooke

GR Appearance: Tip Top Deluxe 5/13; Sharing The Stage With Hannah Rose Graves

PM Warson

New Into The 'YCE Blues Alley - A One Man Soul Factory

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State Of Bengal - Associated With The UK And Asian Underground Movement - Ancient Rhythms Evolving To A Modern Focus

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Mediaeval Baebes

British Music Ensemble - "Tam Lin" Is An Old Fairy Ballad From The Borderlands Of Scotland, Concerning A Mortal Woman Who Encounters A Mysterious Man In A Forbidden Forest - The Ballads Roots Trace Back To A Publication In 1549 (Child Ballad 39)

Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra

GR Jazzin' Up!

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Greezy Wheels

Austin, TX - Formed In The Early 1970's Playing Up To '78 Then Took A Twenty-Three Year Hiatus - Reforming In 2001 And Now Recording For Their Label

Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder

Reuniting After Sixty-Years And Paying Homage To The Two Piedmont Blues Masters Who Have Inspired Them All Their Lives - Ry's Boy Joachim Supplying Percussion - Lots Of Love And Respect In This Album

Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters

Asheville, NC - The Band Has A Knack For Accessing A Deep Well Of Emotion, Applying Those Nuances To The Story-Telling - Another Fine Album

Katy Guillen & The Girls

A Trio Founded In Kansas, 2012 - Now A Duo Known As Katy Guillen & The Drive

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Blues Spotlight: Dan Pickett - Little Information Is Known About Dan Pickett. Researchers Have Traced His Birth In Alabama, Played A Nice Slide Guitar In A Southeastern Blues Style, And One Recording Session For The Gotham Label In 1949. That Session Produced Five Singles Along With Four Previously Unreleased Sides, Purporting To Be Pickett's Entire Recorded Output - However, Some Historians Have Speculated Dan Pickett's Pseudonym May Be That Of Charlie Pickett, The Tennessee Guitarist Who Recorded For Decca Twelve Years Earlier. This Debate Has Not Been Resolved. James "Dan Pickett" Founty Passed On In 1960.

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Blues Spotlight: Dan Pickett; August 31, 1907 AL - August 16, 1967 AL

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Illinois Jacquet

'820' Jazz Presents: Wild Bill Davis, Hammond B-3...Al Bartee, Drums...Illinois Jacquet, Tenor Sax - - - - - A 1989 Recording Finding Jacquet In His Preferred And Cozy Trio Lineup, All On The Forefront Of Early Bebop Forty-Years Previous. This Album Touches On The Roots Of That Era, Adding A Variety Of Bluesy Swing Grooves, And Soul Jazz Complements

Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives

Michigan Appearances: Kalamazoo State Theater, 5/20; Returning To The State 7/8 Gracing the Stage Of Comerica Park, Detroit

Emmylou Harris

Turning 75 A Few Weeks Ago - Appearing With Mary Chapin Carpenter At The Meijer Gardens Summer Concert Series In September - The Show Is Sold Out, However, Keep It Here On 'YCE - You Never Know What May Happen

Yonder Mountain String Band

Michigan Appearances: The Deck, Muskegon 5/25 - Hoxeyville Music Festival, Wellston 8/20

Brennen Leigh featuring Asleep at the Wheel

"Brennen Will Carry The Torch For Real Roots American Music For Her Generation" - Ray Benson - Enough Said!

Charles Wesley Godwin

The West Virginian's Latest Album Paints A rich And Honest Portrayal Of His Homeland

Druha Trava

The Czech 'Grassers With A Rendering Of The 1939 Gospel Song Composed By Thomas Dorsey, Writing the Song For Mahalia Jackson

Pat Conte

Country Blues & Roots Musician Is A New York Cultural Institution - Folklorist, Musicologist, Promoter Of Traditional Music; Collector With A Vast Library Of 78's