Yo-Yo Ma

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

Cousin Avery

Kalamazoo, MI

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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band & Big Joe Williams - Big Joe Revisiting His 1947 B-Side Single Accompanied At That Time By Sonny Boy Williamson

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Lottie Kimbrough, 1928 - Nicknamed "The Kansas City Butterball" Beginning Her Career In Speakeasies Singing With Ma Rainey - A Short Recording Career Of Five Years Beginning In 1924; Little Is Known Of Her Life After 1929

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Webb Wilder

Hattiesburg, MS

Reed Turchi & His Kudzu Choir

Turchi Is Beyond Genre Constraints - Film Composer, Record Producer - Has Collaborated With Iconic Chefs, Poets, Distillers, And Photographers; The Real Deal

Beltline Big Band

Recorded At Forest Hills Northern Auditorium; Jack Kimmell, Vocals - Johnny Mercer And Harold Arlen Composed The Song For The 1942 Film Star Spangled Rhythm

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The Jorgensens

Minneapolis, MN - Fresh Roots Into "YCE

Tommy McLain

Inductee: The Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame - Turning 83 In A Few Weeks, McLain Continues To Perform In The American Deep South With His Backing Group The Mule Train Band

Rory Block

Online Suggestion - Etta James Revisited

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Recording Someone To Love Not Long Before His Passing in 2019 - Part Of This Long-Player Celebrating The Heritage, Legacy, Influence, And Rich Musical History Of Louisiana - This One's A Keeper

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Riske: The First All-Female Haitian Band Based In Miami

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Seprewa Kasa - Seprewa: An Endangered Ghanaian Instrument, Cousin To The Kora From Mali; Possessing A More Earthy Sound - On This Selection, A Trio Of Virtuoso Musicians Are Sharing Their Passions Re-Exploring The Traditional Sounds Of The Seprewa, And Its Importance With The Origins Of 19th Century West African Highlife Music

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Brave Combo

A Simple Waltz About Sorrow And Disillusionment

Pharis & Jason Romero

Masters Of Their Arena; Traditional Roots Music At Its Very Core

Ray Benson

With Flaco Jimenez Reworking Marty Robbins' 1959 Western Ballad

McCoy Tyner

The Jazz Route: Oakland For A Two Night Stand By The McCoy Tyner Quartet At Yoshi's December 2006. This Performance Captures McCoy In The Company Of Three Self-Professed Acolytes, All Tyner's Heirs; Their Connection Is A Validation Of McCoy's Consuming Legacy - - - - - - - - - - - - Joe Lovano, Saxophone...Christian McBride, Bass...Jeff "Tain" Watts...Drums...Mccoy Tyner, Piano

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard

These Two Pioneering Women Fronting A Bluegrass Band In The Old-Time Music Scene During Mid-1950's Baltimore - The Embodied Of The Quintessential "High Lonesome Sound"

The Po' Ramblin' Boys

Grammy-Award Nominees Formed Among The Smoky Mountains A Decade Ago

Jason Eady

Jackson, MS - Affiliated With The Texas Music Scene - Invokes a Honky-Tonk Style Of Songwriting - Belongs On Your Shelf Next To Buenos Noches From A Lonely Room And Letters To Laredo

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(Roud Index 533) Origins Unknown - One Of The Most Widely Performed Traditional Irish Songs - Origins:The Southern Mountains Of Ireland

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Ben Traverse

Mitten Music - Classic American Cowboy Song; Published In 1915 As A Poem Called The Outlaw Broncho - The Song Had Become Famous By 1931, Featured In The Broadway Play "Green Grow The Lilacs"; Ninety-Two Years Later Part Of This Album By Musical Archaeologist And Michigan Musician Ben Traverse