Sammy Figueroa and His Latin Jazz Explosion

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

Sonny & Cher

Catching The Vibe In Sheffield, AL Recording With The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section

Roy Acuff

Composer: Fred Rose - Acuff Is Credited With Moving Country Music From ts Early String Band And Hoedown Format To The Singer-Based Format

Billy Eckstine

Leading His Longtime Orchestra - Composed By With Earl Hines And Recorded In 1946

Isaac Freeman

John Lee Hooker

Running Through Tommy Tucker's 1963 Twelve-Bar Blues Classic On the Montreaux Stage During The 1983 European Tour - John Lee Taking Multiple Blues Styles From Early 20th Century Blues Musicians And Creating His Own Hard Edged Sound

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

One Of The Many Superb Covers, That Make Up Part Of An Historic 20-Date Residency Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Did At San Francisco's Fillmore West in 1997 - Released As A Four Cd Deluxe Set And Tri-Fold Sleeve Vinyl

Carlene Carter

Composer: Susanna Clark - Emmylou Harris, 1977; Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town

Keller Williams and The Travelin' McCourys

Unique Twist On Americana's Long Storytelling Tradition; Impeccable Musicianship

Natalie Cole

Wonderful Tribute Album To Father Nat Cole - The Title Song Is From Nat's Final Studio Album Released Shortly Before His Passing In 1965; Top 5 On The Charts

Joe Ely

Never-Before-Released - Recorded In His Home Studio Forty Years Ago; A Lullaby Project Coming Straight Off The Very Top Shelf Of The Family Reserve, Written For His Then Two Year Old Daughter, Marie

Morgan Toney

Mi'kmaq (Meeg-mah) Fiddler And Singer Melding The Fiery Fiddling Of Cape Breton Island With The Old Songs Of The Mi'kmaq People

Mariachi Reyna De Los Angeles

Established In 1994 - America's First All Female Mariachi Ensemble

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Grupo Vocal Desandann - Spiritual Rhythms Of Voodoo; Brought By Slaves From The Religion's West African Birthplace To Its Incarnations In Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, Trinidad And New Orleans

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Carter Brothers

Blues Act With A Delicious Soul Bent - The Brothers Began Performing In 1964; Never Recorded An Album Together, However, A Steady Succession Of Singles Put them On The Charts For The Next Three Years

Jack Klatt

Minnesota-Based Troubadour Heavily Steeped In American Roots Traditions

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Michaela Anne

Second Release

Yank Rachell

Blues Spotlight: Yank Rachell's Career As A Performer Spanned Nearly Seventy Years Beginning In The Late 1920s. His Impeccable Playing On the Mandolin Brought A Unique Twist To The Blues. Shown The Ropes By Hambone Willie Newbern, Yank Teamed Up With Another Newbern Protege, Sleepy John Estes, And Together Relocated To Memphis In 1929 To Record The First Of Many Sides Together. Harp Player Hammie Nixon Joined Up And The Trio Toured Relentlessly Throughout the Deep South. World War ll Killed Rachell's Recording Career. Two Decades Later The Folk/Blues Revival Brought Yank Back To The Stages, Reconnecting With Estes And Nixon, Highly-Regarded As Genuine And Original Acoustic Blues Players. After Sleepy John's Passing, Yank Rachell Continued Solo For Twenty-Years; Passing On in 1997

Yank Rachell

Blues Spotlight: March 16, 1910 TN - April 9, 1997 IN

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The Jazz Route; Pat Marino - Leads Us To Van Gelder Studios, New Jersey For The 1967 Session Of El Hombre, The Debut Album By Guitarist Pat Martino. Leading A Stellar Line-Up, The Twenty-Two Year Masterfully Showcases His Roots In Soul-Jazz Organ Groups With A Distinctive Sound And Voice. Fifty-Five Years On The Music Still Sounds Fresh

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Sunny Sweeney

Tennessee And Texas Get Equal Time From The Pen Of This Genre-Bending Songwriting Spitfire

Ricky Skaggs

Composer: Larry Cordle - Ricky's Fifth Consecutive Number One

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Doc Watson - Merle Watson, Sam Bush, Marty Stuart

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Fauxgrass

GR Pick & Roll

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COMPILATIONS

Gillian Welch - One Of The Fortunate Few Paying Tribute To the Music Of Mississippi John Hurt - - - No Musician Ever Applied A Gentler Touch To Songs Of Murder, Sex, And Salvation Than Mississippi John Hurt

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