James Spalink

GR Music! - Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Bloodest Saxophone

Strutting, Jump Blues Jubilee Featuring Slick Texas Guitar And Hard Blowing Tenor Saxophone

Jackson Browne & David Lindley

This Album Documents March 2006 Tour Of Spain That Browne And Lindley Took Part In With Spanish Percussionist Tino di Geraldo

Steelism

Nashville-Based Instrumental Band; Guitarist Jeremy Fetzer And Pedal Steel Player Spencer Cullum

Chip Taylor

Songwriters Songwriter; Known For Writing Angel Of The Morning And Wild Thing, However The Depth Of His Immense Talent Indisputable - Taylor Turns 85 Just Around The Corner, And Continues His Journey Sixty Years On

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Ed Young, Hobart Smith & Bessie Jones; 1959 - Considered Part Of The African American Folk Music Tradition, With Bessie Jones' Rendition Being Particularly Well-Known - this Version Recorded By Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax During His Southern Journey In The Late 1950's

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Lee Morse

Influence! Greatest Popularity Was In The 1920's And Early 1930's As A Torch Singer, Although Her Career Began Around 1917 And Continued Until Her Passing In 1954

Lizz Wright

Tapping Into Harvest With The Undercover Work On Neil Young's Classic

The Healers (Ft. Peter Hutchison)

Brooklyn Roots Musicians; Latest Project Into 'YCE

Tinariwen

Southern Algeria And Northern Mali - A Collective Of Tuareg Musicians From The Sahara Region - Tuareg Music: Mixes Electric Blues With Middle Eastern And African Sounds; The Lyrics Are Rooted In Traditional Tuareg Poetry

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Great Plains Of North America - Verdell Primeaux, Johnny Mike, David Carson: Performing Songs In The Native American Church Tradition Of Peyote Songs, Accompanied By Rattle And Water Drum

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Tom Rush

Legend! Consummate Troubadour - Heavy Hand in Launching The Careers Of Other Singer/Songwriters During The 1960's - Ushered In The Era Of The Singer/Songwriter - At The Age Of 83, Rush Continues On In An Incredible 60 Year Career

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Appearing 12/24 At Grace Church; Ann Arbor, MI

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Brownie McGhee

Blues Plate Special: Brownie McGhee; Guitarist And Singer Who Was A Frequent Collaborator With Harmonica Player Sonny Terry - A Thirty-Five Year Long Partnership That Helped To Define The Folk/Blues - Before the Partnership, McGhee Was a Wandering Bluesman, Developing A Finger-Picking Style In The Manner Of His Hero Blind Boy Fuller - He And Terry Redefined Folk Music And Introduced Piedmont Blues Music To Audiences From 1938 To The Late 1970's - Their Final Joint Appearance Was In The 1979 Steve Martin Comedy Film, "The Jerk"

Miles Davis Quintet

The Jazz Spotlight: Released First From A Marathon Four Album Session In 1956 - Rudy Van Gelder Engineering - This Is Davis' First Of Two Great Quintets At It's Full-Throttle Best - Paul Chambers, Double Bass...Red Garland, Piano...John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone...Philly Joe Jones, Drums...Mile Davis, Trumpet

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Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) - Running Through John Hatt's Title Track From "Crossing Muddy Waters" Twenty-Four Years Agos

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David Davis & The Warrior River Boys

Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers, 1929

Billy Strings

Lansing, MI - WYCE Jammie Award Winner And Grammy Recipient

Norton Buffalo & George Kahumoku, Jr

This Collaboration on This Album captures Norton's Incredible Harmonica Expertise With George's Exquisite Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar And Captivating Voice

Kate Peters Sturgill

Influence - Appalachian Folk Singer; Formed The String Band Lonesome Pine Trailers, 1927 - A Distant Cousin Of A.P. Carter's - Accompanied A.P. On His Song-Collecting Missions - Performed A Biweekly Show As The Cumberland Valley Girls On WNVA Radio, 1947 - Recorded By MIke Seeger -Sturgill Is Celebrated At The Annual Dock Boggs And Kate Peters Sturgill Memorial Festival At Clinch Valley College

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Josh White, 1935 - Gifted And Charismatic Entertainer; Blues Star Of The 1930's, Cabaret Star Of The 1940's, And A Folk Star Of The 1950's And '60's

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