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Hoyt Axton – bass vocals; Ry Cooder – bottleneck guitar; Doug Dillard – banjo; Chris Ethridge – bass guitar; Richie Hayward – drums; John Pilla – guitar, autoharp, harmony vocals; Gary Walters – bass guitar; Clarence White – electric guitar. Album co-produced by Van Dyke Parks.

Second studio album by We Five, who’d had a huge hit in 1965 with ‘You Were on 567 Mind’. Lead singer Beverly Biven pretty much defines their sound, for me.

Released as 45 in 1971. Alvin Hankerson was nicknamed ‘Nubbit’ following the loss of the tip of his right thumb at the age of three in a hurricane. He grew up in Georgia and relocated to Boston in 1945.

Jadea is from Whitby, Ontario.

‘Essra Mohawk, 75, formerly of Philadelphia, an eclectic singer-songwriter who wrote “Change of Heart” for Cyndi Lauper, released more than a dozen albums, and was often compared to Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Laura Nyro, died Dec. 11, of cancer at her home in Nashville. In 1967, she joined Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, performing as Uncle Meat. In 1977, this album, “Primordial Lovers”, was cited by a Rolling Stone magazine writer as one of the best 25 albums ever made.’ She wrote more than 600 songs. According to Mohawk, ‘Music has to touch me, move me. If it isn’t honest, what’s the point?’

Released in 1956 on the Chess label. Willie Dixon on bass; Hubert Sumlin and Willie Johnson on guitar; Hosea Lee Kennard on piano; Earl Phillips on drums. Wolf on vocal and blues harp.

Nashville based group, with roots in the East Tennessee State University Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program.

Live at the Hollywood Bowl April 28 2023. Two nights of concerts celebrating Willie’s 90th birthday were recorded on April 29 & 30 at the Hollywood Bowl. The list of performers is CRAZY!

Bonnie left the Pointer Sisters in 1977 to go solo. This is from her first album after many years, released in 2011. She crosses many genres on this album.

‘You’ve not seen the last of Dave Van Ronk’s last cigar.”

Lead Vocal - Lucy Kaplansky; Harmony - Jennifer Kimball. ‘This cut is the one track on the record that documents the original Wayfaring Strangers sound. These eight people played three memorable gigs together. Nothing we ever played, however, was as magical as this first take of Ola Belle Reed's Appalachian ballad.’

Gordon Bonham - vocal & National steel guitar; Bill Price – mandolin and vocal; Garry Bole – accordion. The band's name is lifted from a line in the Dylan song "Maggie's Farm".

‘Blind Willie Johnson recorded a total of 30 tracks for Columbia between 1927 and 1930, creating a priceless legacy. He created unforgettable music by marrying the raw gospel fervor of his vocals with the steely blues fire of his guitar. His songs were mostly traditional or came from hymnals, but when Johnson performed them, his soul-shaking voice and amazing slide guitar transformed each one into something wholly original. Johnson was among the best-selling black gospel artists of the era, but the Great Depression ended his recording career. This 11-track album features inspired interpretations of the iconic slide guitarist/vocalist’s most seminal material.’

The duo's final recording, released over four years after Carter's unexpected death due to a heart attack in July 2002. Begun in the duo's home studio during the winter of 2001-2002, SEVEN is essentially a re-recording of songs from Carter's out-of-print solo album which had been released prior to his collaboration with Grammer. SEVEN was unfinished at the time of Carter's death; Grammer and engineer Mark Frethem finished the tracking, mixing and mastering in May 2006.

‘This song has a long remarkable history. For starters, it was written by Peter LaFarge in 1965, an important presence in the 1960’s folk protest world but he never made a mark with it. It took Johnny Cash who in the midst of his popularity got Columbia Records to agree to allow him to make an LP devoted to Native American issues called “Bitter Tears.” They reluctantly agreed. “Drums” in the hands of Martha Redbone becomes a tour de force anthem of unrelenting and haunting power.’ - Larry Haley Read more here: https://s.si.edu/2AvwYDU

Per Dylan, “Wherever you’re headed, even if it’s to a better place, you leave people and things behind, and you think about those people and those things and you carry them with you. Those are your exit wounds. And right now, we’re swimming in them.” Shelby Lynne on background vocal.

Lennox won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance award for this in 1996.

Guitar by Richard Thompson.

The song describes the adventures of Cisco and Pancho, two Mexican cowboys from the 1950s TV program ‘The Cisco Kid’.

1962 single on Argo. Heard this on a commercial for Dave's Hot Chicken.

In 1963, he became a member of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. After leaving the Bluegrass Boys, he joined the Jim Kweskin Jug Band. Over the years he performed with several other musicians, such as Clarence White and David Grisman in Muleskinner, Tony Trischka, Jim Rooney and Jim Collier. He died in 2015 in Woodstock, NY.

“After reading that Bruce Springsteen wrote his Nebraska album after binge-reading O’Connor,” Cutler says, “I thought of taking a more direct approach: writing songs from the perspective of her characters as they wrestled through the same questions of a ‘Christ-haunted South’ that I was encountering as I reckoned with my Pentecostal and military upbringing. While I have those characters in mind and readers of O’Connor may appreciate how they interact with the stories, the songs are written to stand on their own… Based on “The Lame Shall Enter First.”

In 1984 at the 26th Annual Grammy Awards, "Ain't Nobody" won for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.