Lord Huron

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Emmylou Harris

Joe Jackson

Yo-Yo Ma

Neil Diamond

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Lila Downs

Keller Williams

Tony Perez

Rachael Sage

Oh Wonder

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Martin Sexton

Born in 1966, Sexton grew up in Syracuse, New York, the tenth of twelve children in a working class Irish-American family. He acquired his first guitar, a Sears & Roebuck acoustic model, at age 14. In 1988, Sexton moved to Boston, and began playing on street corners and at open mic nights around the city. Sexton released a collection of self-produced demo recordings in 1991 called In The Journey. The album was released on an 8-track cassette, and Sexton sold 15,000 copies to fans. He was given the National Academy of Songwriters Artist of the Year Award in 1994. He released Black Sheep in 1996 (season 6 episode 11 of the TV sitcom Scrubs featured track "Diner"), an album called The American in 1998, and another album called Wonder Bar in 2000. He launched his independent record label, Kitchen Table Records

Nick Moss

Molly Tuttle

Mary Lee's Corvette

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Crosby, Stills & Nash

CSN formed in 1968 shortly after Crosby, Stills and Nash performed together informally, discovering they harmonized well. Crosby had been asked to leave the Byrds in late 1967, Stills's band Buffalo Springfield had broken up in early 1968, and Nash left his band the Hollies in December. They signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in early 1969. Their first album, Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969) produced the Top 40 hits "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" and "Marrakesh Express". In preparation for touring, the trio added Young, Stills's former Buffalo Springfield bandmate, as a full member, along with the touring members Dallas Taylor (drums) and Greg Reeves (bass). As Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, they performed at the Woodstock festival that August.

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Robert Randolph & The Family Band

Arooj Aftab

Todd Snider

East Nashville Skyline is a studio album by Nashville, Tennessee, singer-songwriter Todd Snider. The album was released in 2004. It was ranked the 7th best album of the year by Andrew Gilstrap in PopMatters. The album contains a variety of songs, most of them concerning moments in Snider's past, such as his addiction rehab and various other troubles throughout his life. The song "Age Like Wine" is a retrospective of his life, and Snider recounts his jailing in "Tillamook County Jail". The song "Ballad of The Kingsmen" concerns the controversy surrounding their hit song "Louie Louie".

Mighty Blue Kings

Another group in the '90s retro resurrection of mid-century swing/jump-blues music spearheaded by Squirrel Nut Zippers and Royal Crown Revue, Mighty Blue Kings formed in Chicago during 1994, a septet of youthful but experienced musicians who wanted to offer clubgoers a night out 1940s-style. Vocalist Ross Bon, guitarist Gareth Best, saxophone players Jerry "Big J" DeVivo and Sam Burckhardt, bassist Jimmy Sutton, drummer Bob Carter and pianist Donny Nichilo played local clubs for awhile, then gained a coveted residency at the Green Mill.

Alabama Shakes

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Seth Glier

Tony Bennett

Anthony Dominick Benedetto (August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023), known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer. He received many accolades, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Bennett was named a National Endowments for the Arts Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree. He founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York, along with Exploring the Arts, a non-profit arts education program. He sold more than 50 million records worldwide and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Harmonica Shah

Shah told Living Blues magazine that his grandfather's passion for the blues inspired him. "Well see I picked it up from him, he'd be out in the fields singin' all that (sings in a slow moan) 'Tell me how long, whoa, tell me how long it's been since you've been away from home' Well, that's raw! That's a big damn difference from 'Good Golly Miss Molly'". He moved to Detroit in 1967, and worked for Ford Motors for fifteen years. Shah bought himself a cheap harmonica in 1976 and, while operating as a taxicab driver, Shah was introduced to local blues jam sessions. "Hell, that was it, no turning back then", Shah recalled.

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Ani DiFranco

Louis Jordan

Belle & Sebastian

Belle and Sebastian is a band from Glasgow, Scotland. Led by guitarist/vocalist Stuart Murdoch, the seven-piece band has an intimate, majestic sound that is equal parts folk-rock and '60s pop. Murdoch has a gift for not only whimsy and surrealism, but also for odd, unsettling lyrical detail which keeps the songs grounded in a tangible reality. Based in Glasgow, Scotland, Belle and Sebastian released their first two albums in 1996 at the peak of the chamber pop movement.

Ledward Kaapana

Mary Akpa

Yaya Bey

Hidaiyah "Yaya" Bey is an American R&B musician from Brooklyn. Yaya Bey is one of R&B's most exciting storytellers. Using a combination of ancestral forces and her own self-actualization, the singer/songwriter seamlessly navigates life's hardships and joyful moments through music. Bey's newest album, Remember Your North Star-2022, captures this emotional rollercoaster with a fusion of soul, jazz, reggae, afrobeat and hip-hop that feeds the soul. The artists knack for storytelling is best displayed in the album's lead single. She's an anthemic embodiment of fed-up women everywhere who have given their all in a relationship, yet their physical body nor spiritual mind could never be enough.

Buddy Guy & Junior Wells

Alone & Acoustic is an album by the blues musicians Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, released in 1991. It was recorded in 1981, in Paris, France, while the two were touring. The album has sold more than 100,000 copies. Along with Damn Right, I've Got the Blues, it marked a return to commercial success for Guy. Rolling Stone called Alone & Acoustic "reflective and subdued," writing that "a warm spontaneity runs through the album."

The Pheromones

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Guy Van Duser & Billy Novick

Tab Benoit

“Power of the Pontchartrain” is an eerie, shimmering ode to the mystical power of the massive lake just north of New Orleans and the dark legends that have evolved around it over the generations.