Hugh Masekela

Traditions! Returns Next Week - The Roots Live Here

Reverend Horton Heat

Composer: Speckled Red, 1929

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Zachary Richard - A Traditional Cajun Waltz; The Fiddle-Based Melody Dates To Before The 1900's

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Eleven Groups In Eight Days. A Marathon Recording Session In A Makeshift Storefront Studio In A 100-Year-Old Building In Eastern North Carolina - A Dozen Groups Came To Lift Their Voices And Represent The Region's Unique Sacred Soul Traditions

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The Bastard Sons Of Johnny Cash

San Diego, CA 1995 - Got The Ok To Use Cash's Name By Johnny Himself - Recorded First Album At Johnny's Private Studio

Hank Williams

Legend! - One Of The Most Influential American Singers And Songwriters Of The 20th Century

Johnny Guitar Watson

Hiram "Hank" Williams, 1950 - Both A Classic Of Honky-Tonk And Entry In The Great American Songbook

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Recorded 1959, Jimmy Forrest - First Album Made After Jimmy's R&B Phase; Back To His Roots Project - Blues-Based Hard Bop That Leans Soul-Jazz

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Jill Jack And The American Songbook Band

Detroit, MI -Jazz Standard,1931; Performed For Broadcast That Same Year By Torch Singer Belle Barker That Same Year

Satan and Adam

A Fixture On Harlem's Sidewalks In The Late 1980s And Early '90s

Eric Clapton

Working Up The Great Charles Brown - Clapton Turning 78 A Few Days Ago

Shannon McNally

Robbie Wrote It; Rick Danko Gave It His Soul - Appearing On Northern Light - Southern Nights (1975)

Klezmer Conservatory Band

Originally Formed For A Single Concert In 1980, The Internationally-Renowned Klezmer Band Enters Its Forty-Third Year - - - - - Klezmer: An Instrumental Musical Tradition Of The Ashkenazi Jews Of Central And Eastern Europe - The Genre Incorporates Elements Of Other Musical Genres Including Ottoman ( Greek And Romanian) Music, Baroque Music, German And Slavic Folk dances, And Religious Jewish Music

Choro das 3

The Wanted Three - A Family Group Of Three Sisters Dedicated To The Brazilian Instrumental Music Based On Choro, A Genre That Emerged In Brazil During The Early Decades Of the Nineteenth-Century

Jack Klatt

Minneapolis, MN - Steadfast Troubadour; Impeccable Authenticity Reminiscent Of The Most Revered Storytellers

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Margo Price

Fourth Release - Mike Campbell And Sharon Van Etten Guesting - Margo Is Celebrating Number 40 In a Few Days

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Blues Plate Special: Barkin' Bill Smith ; August 18, 1928 MS - April 24, 2000 IL - Raised In Mississippi And Later Relocated To East St. Louis, Detroit And Finally Chicago, At That Time Working With Homesick James. Smith Fronted Blues Bands Around Chicago For Decades, Making His Recording Debut In 1991. Joe Williams, Jimmy Witherspoon And Brook Benton Among Influences. Barkin' Bill Passed On In 2000 At The Age Of 71.

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Ron Levy

The Jazz Route: Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom Trio - Devoted Most Of His Career To Keeping The Flame Of Funky, Bluesy Soul-Jazz Alive - Played with Albert King And B.B. During The Late 1960's - Co-Founded Both Rounder And Bullseye Blues Record Labels - The Trio Continues Carving Out New Ground - - - - - - - - - Jeff Lockhart And Melvin Sparks, Guitar...Adrome McHine, Drums...Kal Denson, Saxophone...Ron Levy, Bass; Piano; Vibraphone; Hammond B-3

Sturgill Simpson

The Face Of 21st Century Outlaw Country; A Self-Styled Maverick Who Didn't Follow The Rules Of Either Modern Or Classic Country

Tommy Emmanuel

Molly Tuttle - A Rendering Of Vintage Townes Van Zandt

The Wooks

Award-Winning 'Grassers Inspired By The Traditional As Well As The Unconventional

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The Phipps Family - Integral Part Of The 1960's Folk Revival - April 22, 1938 Keen Mountain Coal Mine Explosion, 45 Miners Perished; Considered One Of The Worst Mining Disasters In The History Of Virginia

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Mother Maybelle Carter Recorded July 1963

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Tyler Childers

A Well-Known American Waltz Written By Texas Fiddler Luke Thomasson Composed At The Turn Of The Twentieth-Century (1900)