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What a great album! ‘Friends’ on the album include Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Duane Allman, Dave Mason, John Hartford, Clarence White, Gram Parsons, Bobby Whitlock, Jim Keltner, Bobby Keys and Carl Radle.

Live performance at the Kennedy Center Honors, 2008. The Who’s surviving members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend were among the honorees that year.

Stewart left the Kingston Trio to pursue a solo career in the late 60’s. Providing back-up on the album are ‘a host of studio cats who existed largely outside of Chet Atkins' countrypolitan mafia: drummer Kenneth A. Buttrey, bassist Norbert Putnam, harmonicat Charlie McCoy, Lloyd Green on pedal steel, and others, including the most sought-after upright pianist in country music history: Hargus "Pig" Robbins. Incidentally, many of these same musicians played on Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline’.

Emmylou’s marvelous debut solo album, if you don’t count ‘Gliding Bird’, which nobody heard. Produced by Brian Ahern. Ben Keith on steel guitar; Bill Payne on piano; James Burton and Rick Cunha on guitar.

Williams describes “Get Right with God,” as “a song version of a painting,” comparing it to the religious folk art she collects. While she says, “I am on a spiritual path. I am trying to get right with God,” Williams emphasizes that the song “doesn’t have anything to do with any particular religion.” Jim Keltner on drums; Bo Ramsey on slide guitar; resonator guitar by Lucinda.

"Black Night" was Brown's second single to reach #1 on Billboard's R&B chart. It remained at the top position for 14 weeks, longer than any other single. In 2005, it was inducted into the Blues Foundation Blues Hall of Fame as a "Classic of Blues . Performed in the West Coast blues-style, it’s Brown on vocal and piano, Johnny Moore on guitar, Maxwell Davis on that smokin’ tenor sax. This was released on 78 in early 1951 by Aladdin.

Album out 4/12. To Rogers, the song signifies a "rough journal entry" about attending friends’ festivities while she craves "simple baselines" and finds herself "in a different place in [her] life".

Ghanaian music group that fused jazz, funk and highlife. Apagya means "a spark of fire". This collection brings you ‘the distinctive funk sound of Ghana-- heavy on the bright Vox organ, colored by highlife guitars, and anchored by grooves that are heavier than just about anything else.’

The fifth solo album from Joan Shelley, the Kentucky folk singer-songwriter, was produced by Jeff Tweedy. She calls it “a haven for overstimulated heads in uncertain times.”

‘B’ side of 45 released on Smash in 1966. ‘A’ side was ‘The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore’. Ah, theirs John Stewart again!

This track has been described as ‘a bracing amalgam of Cajun rhythms, surf melodies, and Beach Boys orchestrations.’ The album is ‘a time capsule of fun and discovery that cannot be repeated. It's a moment of fleeting brilliance frozen in time, and a bargain at almost any price.’ Some great Cajun fiddle by Dave Swarbrick.

Dobro – David Bromberg; lead guitar – Bob Dylan; organ – Dr. John; vocals – Bob Dylan and Doug Sahm. Doug Sahm began his solo career in 1972, after the Sir Douglas Quintet finished its contract with Smash/Mercury and after Atlantic Records co-owner/producer Jerry Wexler convinced him to sign to his label. Wexler gave Sahm the chance to cut a star-studded, big-budget album, shuffling him off to New York where Wexler and Arif Mardin helmed a series of sessions with an ever-revolving cast of musicians.

Waxahatchee is an Indie rock / folk project formed by Katie Crutchfield in 2010. The project is named after Waxahatchee Creek in Alabama. She’ll be at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston on 4/26.

CMT (Country Music Television) network show that pairs country music artists with musicians from other music genres. This was the first show in the series.

Based out of Chapel Hill NC, Lizzy Ross and Omar Ruiz-Lopez draw inspiration from the natural world, ancient mythology and the Piedmont's green hills. This is ‘a selkie singing of getting to return home.’

Album of duets Willie did with a slew of top-shelf artists back in the mid-80’s. Track produced by Billy Sherrill. Thanks, Lee, for this one!

Brent is from Greenville, MS, a place steeped in the Delta blues. Also close to New Orleans, where she recorded this album. Brent is a piano player ‘with an impressive groove anchored by a strong rhythmic left hand’. She and producer Colin Linden ‘injected her gritty, rootsy music with spicy elements that earmark the unmistakable Crescent City sound.’

‘Johnston's deceptively easy-going tunes are easy to fall in love with.’ "Evie's Tears" apparently refers to sexual abuse (by a priest). Rolling Stone mag named Johnston “songwriter of the year” after this release.

Colin Linden of Blackie & the Rodeo Kings helping out on electric guitar.

Single on Imperial in 1956.

From Bonnie’s third album. Fender Fretless bass – Freebo; drums – Earl Palmer; electric slide guitar – Lowell George; electric piano – Bill Payne; tabla – Milt Holland. Bonnie on acoustic guitar.

Mississippi John Hurt spent most of his life as a farmer. When he played Newport Folk for the first time in 1963 as part of Newport's blues revival, he hadn't recorded a song since the 1920's. This album contains Mississippi John Hurt's first recordings in 35 years, recorded that same year Dick Waterman saw him at Newport.

Hurray for the Riff Raff is a folk-blues/Americana band from New Orleans, fronted by Alynda Segarra. ‘I was in love with my American footprint, tracks of blood left out in the snow.’

Cajun fiddler, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. Hadley died in 2012, at the age of 79. He was 62 when he recorded this album.

Lead guitar played by Nina Gerber; 12-string by Kate Wolf. Harmonica by Norton Buffalo. Harmony vocal, but NOT guitar by Tony Rice!

From that brown album of theirs! ‘Get yourself a bride, And bring your children down to the river side.’ Richard Manuel: Lead Vocal & Piano & Baritone Sax; Rick Danko: Bass & Trombone; Robbie Robertson: Electric Guitar; Garth Hudson: Lowrey Organ & Tenor Sax; Levon Helm: Drums; John Simon: Tuba.

Canadian singer-songwriter.

A charity compilation album featuring new recordings of Dylan compositions by multiple artists. Proceeds from the album were donated to the human rights organization.