Mary Lou Williams

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

Jimmy And The Mustangs

Emerging From The Punk Scene In Southern California During '80s - First Gig: Opening Up For The Go-Go's

Glenna Bell

Houston, TX - Throwback To The Singer/Songwriters Of The Civil Rights Era; Woody Guthrie, Odetta, Mahalia Jackson, Etc.

Carolina Chocolate Drops

Composer: Unknown - Early 20th-Century American Folk Ballad Written In Dorian Mode - In The First Sound Recording By Clarence Ashley, Little Sadie May Have Been A Prostitute

River Rogues Jazz Band

The Kent County's Hot Dixie-Jazz Collaborative Invigorates The Spirit Of The Traditional New Orleans Sound

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Kevin Connor and Swing 3PO

Seattle, WA - The Group Plays Dance Music Rooted In The Swing Tradition - Reuben Sandwich: Dreamed Up At Omaha's Blackstone Hotel In 1925 By Reuben Kulakofsky, A Local Grocer, To Feed A Group Of Late-Night Poker Players. The Hotel's Owner, Holding Aces Liked It So Much He Put it On The Menu Of The Plush Horse, The Hotel Restaurant

Marc Cohn & Blind Boys of Alabama

GR Appearance: Tonight; Gracing The Stage Of The Meijer Gardens Summer Concert Series

COMPILATIONS

Kid Bangham: Former Guitarist For The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Joining A Unique Roster Of Musicians Paying Creative Tribute To Charley Patton; A Prime Architect Of The Delta Blues Sound, And One Of The Great Recorded Voices In American Folk Music

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Paul McCartney

Undercover: Fats Waller, 1934 - Eric Clapton Covered It Seventy-Six Years After On "Clapton"; McCartney Two Years Later

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Tom & Mark Wisner - The Maritime Musical Tradition Encompasses An Ocean Of Songs From People Who Have Lived And Worked On The Water, Maritime Stories From Martha's Vineyard To The Bahamas And Beyond

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Yiddish Glory

Songs Resurrected By Yiddish Glory, Written By Holocaust Victims And Survivors In The Soviet Union - These Are Historically Important Soviet Yiddish Songs Of World War II; None Of Them Have Been Performed Since 1947 - A Remarkable Story Of Folklorists In The Soviet Union Who Risked Their Lives Collecting Songs From Jewish Red Army Soldiers, Jewish Refugees, Victims And Survivors Of Ukrainian Ghettos

Air An Paistin Fionn (The Fair-Haired Child)

Ancient Melody Of A Traditional Irish March, Honoring An Irish Hero From The 16th Century - Laois (Lows) Is A County In Ireland Located In The South Midlands

Lydia Loveless

Kalamazoo Appearance: 7/24 Supporting The Drive-By Truckers

S.G. Goodman

Self-Produced Second Album - The Kentucky Songwriter Offers Vivid Portraits Of Complex People, Synthesizing Decades Of Southern Music Into A Singular Vision

Sonny Landreth

Michigan Appearance: 7/14 The Ark, Ann Arbor - Joining John Hiatt & The Goners 7/21 Meijer Gardens Summer Concert Series

The Staples Jr. Singers

David Byrne's Label Luaka Bop Records Has Re-Issued This Little-Known '70s Gospel Album By The Staples Jr. Singers, Three Siblings Under The Age Of Fourteen - First And Only Album Recorded In Tupelo, MS

Chris Stapleton

Michigan Appearance: 7/8 Comerica Park, Detroit - 7/21 Soaring Eagle Casino - Willie Nelson Released It As The Third Single From The "Always On My Mind" Album, Reaching No. 2 On The Charts

Johnny Adams

Blues Spotlight: Renowned Around His Crescent City Home Base, Johnny Adams Sang Gospel Professionally Before Crossing Over To The Secular World In 1959. Adams' First R&B Hit Recording In 1962 Was Produced By A Teenaged Mac Rebennack. Waxing Some Outstanding Follow-Ups, Adams Hit A Prolonged Dry Spell, Resurfacing In 1968 With An Impassioned R&B Revival Of Jimmy Heap's Country Standard "Release Me". Signing to Rounder Records Introduced Johnny To A New Audience, Recording Nine Critically-Acclaimed Albums For The Label, Earning Him A Number Of Awards, Including The Prestigious W.C. Handy Award. Laten John Adams, Jr. Passed On In 1998.

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Blues Spotlight: Johnny Adams; January 5, 1932 LA - September 14, 1998 LA

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Bill Evans

'820'Jazz Presents: Eddie Gomez, Bass...Marty Morell, Drums...Bill Evans, Piano - - - - Recorded At The Village Gate In Greenwich Village October 1968 With Evans In His Preferred Trio Formation. This Two-Night Performance Is Historic, Not Seeing The Light Of Day For Forty-Four Years. Why It Was Shelved For All Those Years Is Still Being Debated - What We Do Know That This Moment In Time For The Bill Evans Trio Was An Important Step Their Evolution.

Wilco

Chicago, IL - A 21-Track Double Album Recorded Live In Their Chicago Studio - The Simple Melody Harkens Back to Jeff Tweedy's Earliest Work With The Pioneering 'Uncle Tupelo'

COMPILATIONS

Tim O'Brien - Undercover: Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited 1965)

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Luke Winslow-King

Michigan Appearances Include 7/10 Blissfest, Harbor Springs; 7/21 Lowell Showboat

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The Driftwood Singers

Really Nice Pedal Steel Work

Clarence Ashley & Doc Watson

Mountain Shout: Clarence Ashley And Doc Watson - Ashley Began Playing the Medicine Shows In The Southern Appalachians As Early As 1911, Both As A Solo Artist And Member Of Old-Time String Band "The Carolina Tar Heels" Gaining Initial Fame During The Late 1920's. 'Dark Holler Blues' Is An Early 1960's Reworking Of Ashley's 1929 Song With Son-In-Law Doc Watson. Doc Was Instrumental In Ashley's "Rediscovery", Bringing Him Out Of The Mountains And Onto The Seminal Stages Of The Folk Revival

Peter Elman

Guest Musicians On The Album Include Darol Anger And Flaco Jimenez