Seventh Son

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

The Jetbeats

GR's Vintage Beat Band

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Yola

Debut Album

caleb caudle

The Album Brings Caudle Back To His North Carolina Roots - Guests Include Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, And Carlene Carter: John Carter Cash Producing

The Iguanas

New Orleans, LA, 1989 - Mix Of America's Musical Heritage; A Musical Conduit, Crossing Cultures & Languages

Loudon Wainwright III

Traditional - Uncle Dave Macon 1925

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Marathon Recording Session In A Makeshift Storefront Studio In A 100-Year-Old Building In Eastern North Carolina Representing The Region's Unique Sacred Soul Traditions

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Chick Corea and Bela Fleck

Historic Duet Meeting Of Piano And Banjo By Two Legends From Different Musical Worlds

Etta James

A Traditional Blues Song With Authorship Credited To Big Bill Broonzy, Though That Is A Grey Area - First Recording By The State Street Boys In 1935 - Best Known Version From The Early Recordings By Lightnin' Hopkins

Sunny & The Sunliners

Formed By Songwriters Jimmie Lewing And Sunny Ozuna On The Texas Border In 1959, And For Four Years Under The Moniker The Sunny & The Sunglows - Not Looking Back In The Six Decades Since, Sunny & The Sunliners Are Living Legends In The Texas And Latin Music Pantheon

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New Zealand Maori Recording Artists - Black Sings Mostly In The Maori Language Using Traditional Maori Musical Forms And Collaborates With Centuries-Old Native Instruments

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Ruben Blades

Composer: Fredric Weatherly, 1913 - Melding Latin And Celtic - This Album Earned Blades A Grammy Award For Best World Music Album

Webb Pierce

One Of Finest Honky Tonk Singers Of The 1950s, Charting More Number Ones Than Any Other Country Artist During The Decade - Inducted Into The Country Music Hall Of Fame - T. Rex Covered A One Of Pierce's Song In 1974

Stella!

SE Miichigan Roots Trio - The Song Is Of British Origin And Is One Of Most Common Songs In Appalachia, Known By Many Names (Roud Folk Song Index 413)

American Aquarium

Producer; John Fullbright

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Blues Spotlight: 1951 - - - First Came To Prominence Fronting Roy Milton's Solid Senders During The 1940s. A Natural On Piano, Miss Howard's Burgeoning Talents Took Her To Los Angeles Joining The Milton Trio, And Not Long After Scoring Top Ten Hits On The R&B Charts Throughout The Decade. Leaving Specialty Records In the Early '50s, The Singles Success Faded In The Face Of The Growth Of Rock And Roll; A Tour With Roy Brown And Little Willie John In 1956 Proved Unsatisfying, And She Retired From The Music Business Shortly Afterwards. Camille Agnes Browning Passed On In 1993.

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Blues Spotlight: 1956; March 29, 1914 TX - March 10, 1993 CA

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Les McCann

The Jazz Route: Leads Us To The Atlantic Studios, NYC 1968, For An In And Out Recording Session By The Les McCann Quartet. McCann Keeps It Simple And To the Point; The Group Pushing The Groove Forward - - - - Donald Dean, Drums...Leroy Vinnegar, Bass...Willie Bobo, Timbales...Les McCann, Piano

Sarah Shook & The Disarmers

Chatham County, NC - The Band's "High Lonesome" Style Incorporates Country-Punk And Twang, With Shades Of Outlaw Country

Appalachian Road Show

Every Composition On This Project Speaks Of The Trials, Heartache, And Tribulations That The Appalachian Mountain People Faced While Settling This Incredible Region Of America

Ralph Stanley

The Bluegrass Legend Reinterpreting From Another Ground-Breaking Legend - One Of Final Recording By the Carter Family, 1942

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard

The Pair Embodied The Quintessential "High Lonesome Sound" - Began Playing Together In The Bluegrass And Old-Time Music Scene Of Baltimore During The Late 1950's - These Two Are Pioneering Legends

Willie Watson

Roud Folk Song Index, #456 - The Founding Member Of Old Crow Medicine Show Debut Solo With a Cover Of The Song About The Eighteenth-Century Racehorse

Bob Bernard and Kailin Yong

Waltzing Through The Mitten On This Winter Morning

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