Bau

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

Sam Cooke

"Ain't That Good News',1964: The Eleventh And Final Studio Album To Be Issued During Cooke's Lifetime Prior To His Death At The Age Of 33 -

Chelo Silva

Consuelo (Chelo) Silva: Pioneering Force Of Traditional Mexican Music - Queen Of Bolero - Reigned Over The Tejano Music Scene With Her Romantic Ballads And Passionate Performances

Patsy Cline

One Of The Most Influential Vocalists Of The 20th Century, And Of The First Country Music Artists To Successfully Cross Over Into Pop Music - Several Major Hits During Her Shortened Eight-Year Recording Career

Janis Martin

Undercover: Patsy Cline, 1963 - Martin: 1950s Rockabilly Singer And One Of Country Music's Early Female Innovators - Nicknamed The Female Elvis For Her Gyrating Dance Moves On Stage

The Red Elvises

Founded In California, 1995

Red Holloway

An Esteemed Jazz Saxophone Working The Bop Genres For A Half-Century - A Late 1940's Stint With Roosevelt Stint Opened Up Recording Opportunities With Willie Dixon, Lloyd Price, And Junior Parker

The Concussions

GR Music - Appearing 7/9 Creston Brewery

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Grandpa Elliott

Long-Standing French Quarter Street-Musician - Limited Discography; Preferred Blowing Harp And Singing On the Streets New Orleans - We Lost Grandpa Elliot In Early March

Sophie & The Broken Things

Latest Into 'YCE

Eilen Jewell

Composer: Mabel Louise "Big "Maybelle" Smith, 1955 - On Her Seventh Studio Album, Down Eilen Steps Back In Time To Unearth 12 Vintage Blues Gems, Honoring History While Breathing New Life Into Each Discovery

Elder Jack Ward

The 83-Year-Old Elder Jack Ward's First Recording In More Than 50 Years - Another Veteran Voice Of Memphis Sacred Soul.

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Jose Luis Nobre Costa - Legendary Portuguese Guitarist Bringing Traditional Fado Music To The World - The Fado Genre Is Traced To The Late 18th Century; A Common Connection To A Historic Portuguese Urban And Maritime Proletariat

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Yungchen Lhamo

World-Renowned Tibetan Singer - Yungchen Brings The Voice Of Tibet To Songs Infused With The Quiet Spiritual Power Of Tibetan Buddhism

Jen Hodge All Stars

Undercover: Clarence Williams Washboard Band, 1929

The Bo-Keys

Legendary Memphis Band Which Evolved From The "Mar-Kays", The Road Band For Otis Redding

Mapache

Los Angeles, CA: Clay Finch And Sam Blasucci - Their Sound Is A Distinctly Independent Link In A Chain That Stretches Far Behind And Ahead Of Them

Tom Waits

Guest Harpist: Charlie Musselwhite - Thirteenth-Studio Album, Grammy Award-Winner - On The List Of The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time - The Highly-Respected Seventy-Two Year Old Hasn't Toured Since '08 - He And Kathleen Recently Celebrated Forty-Two Years Together

Karen Dalton

Associated With Fred Neil, the Holy Modal Rounders And Bob Dylan During The Early 1960s Greenwich Village Folk Scene

Jimmy Yancey

Blues Spotlight: Jimmy Yancey Did Not Make A Record Until He Was Over 40 Years Old, But His Elegant Playing On The Club And Rent-Party Circuit In Chicago Was Legendary. These Recordings Created A Considerable Stir In The Blues Community. One Of The Pioneers Of The Raucous, Rapid-Fire, Eight-To-The-Bar Piano Style, Yancey Was Very Influential On The Younger Chicago Players Who Started The Boogie-Woogie Craze Of The Late 1930s. He Began As A Tap-Dancer And Singer As Part Of His Father And Brothers Act On The Vaudeville Circuit, Touring The States And Europe Before WWl. Returning To Chicago In 1915, Yancey Then Taught Himself to Play Piano - Remembered Today As A True Innovator Of Blues Piano. James Edward Yancey Passed On In 1951; Posthumously Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Thirty-Five Years Later

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Blues Spotlight: Jimmy Yancey, February 20, 1895 IL - September 17, 1951

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Weather Report

'820 Jazz' Presents: Don Alias, Percussion...Alphonso Johnson, Bass...Chester Thompson, Drums...Wayne Shorter, Saxophone...Joe Zawinul, Yamaha Grand Piano And Synthesizers - - - - Live Performance Of "Black Market", The Title Track On The 1976 Release By Weather Report, Hearing It Live And Unfiltered This Morning. On The Forefront Of Fusion, The Group's Improvisational Skill, Experimental Electronic Leanings, And Increasing Thirst To Incorporate Elements Of Funk, R&B And Native Musics From Around The World Steered Weather Report As One Of The Defining Bands Of The Jazz Fusion Genre

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Fred Tillman Wrote It 1949 covered By Kelly Hogan Sung In the Key Of Patsy Cline - Wonderful Reinterpretation

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Joshua Hedley

Latest Release By The Singing Professor Of Country & Western - "Neon Blue" Examines The Often Forsaken Era: The Early 1990s, The Last Bastion Of Country Music

Wood & Wire

Four Pickers Out Of Austin - Grammy-Nominated For Best Bluegrass Album

Dori Freeman

Galax, VA - Fourth Release From The Blue Ridge Singer/Songwriter

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Patty Loveless - A Stellar Stable Of Like-Minded Musicians Setting Music To The Unfinished Handwritten Lyrics By Hank Williams Found On A Notebook, Discovered In His Wrecked Cadillac That Took His Life, New Years Day 1953

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Makem Brothers & Brian Sullivan

These Guys Have Serious Irish Roots - The Sons Of The Legendary Tommy Makem, And The Grandsons Of Irish Singer Sarah Makem, A Ballad Singer Who Had Over Five Hundred Songs In Memory

Beppe Gambetta

Italian Guitarist Whose Music Encompasses American Bluegrass And European Folk Influences - Gambetta Masterfully Works Through A Duo Of Tunes Based On Late 16th Century Scottish Reels