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The Beat, great Ska band outta the UK, (known in the US and Canada as the English Beat).

Recorded live at the Shamrock Lounge, Wichita, KS. Dustin Arbuckle on lead vocal and harp. Arbuckle is ‘a road dog grinder who has been laying down Blues and Roots music for almost 2 decades.’

a surrealistic urban postcard from San Francisco’s Mission District. Smith says of this track, “Slightly spooky lyrics contrast with lighthearted music in 3/4 time. A surrealistic postcard from a mural-covered alley in San Francisco’s storied Mission District. Written on my first bicycle outing after lockdown ended. Depicts the feeling of just starting to poke my head into the light as the darkness of lockdown began to lift.” This is her second studio album. She is 70!

This is Willie’s 152nd album! He is headlining the 2024 Outlaw Music Festival Tour. Joining him are Bob Dylan, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, John Mellencamp, Billy Strings and more. You can catch them at the Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA, on July 2.

They said of this, ‘When the world shut down in March of 2020, we found ourselves one show into a two-week Australian tour. After scrambling to get home, the quiet hit, and the processing of a new world began from our Louisiana porch, deeply feeling the human instinct to turn to a sense of story when faced with intense uncertainty.’ Nice clawhammer banjo. Album produced by legendary roots musician, Dirk Powell.

Recorded in London in May of 1964. Muddy Waters on guitar; Little Willie Smith on drums. Many consider Spann to be the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist. He became Muddy Waters' piano player in late 1952 and participated in his first recording session with the band in 1953. He played on many of Waters' most famous songs, including "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I'm Ready", and "Got My Mojo Working".

Jerry Douglas on Weissenborn; acoustic and electric guitar by Kenny Greenberg; synthesizer by Wally Wilson. The album, recorded in Nashville, was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Recording.

Banjo - Béla Fleck; bass - Victor Wooten; drums - Roy Wooten. Recorded in Brady’s home studio and in Sulan Studios in Ballyvourney, County Cork, Ireland.

Banjo – Tony Trischka; Bass – Jim Whitney; Clarinet, Mandolin – Andy Statman; Guitar, Mandolin – John McGann; Music Director, Violin, Viola – Matt Glaser; Piano – Bruce Barth; Vocals – Jennifer Kimball. Guest musicians: Cello – Eugene Friesen, Rushad Eggleston; Violin – Carrie Rodriguez, Darol Anger, John Blake.

Ashley began performing at medicine shows in the Southern Appalachian region as early as 1911, when he was 16, and gained initial fame during the late 1920s as both a solo recording artist and as a member of various string bands, including the Carolina Tar Heels. Some of Ashley's early recordings were included on Harry Smith's ‘Anthology of American Folk Music’. After his "rediscovery" during the folk revival of the 1960s, Ashley spent the last years of his life playing at folk music concerts, including appearances at Carnegie Hall in New York and at the Newport Folk Festival. He learned this song from his mother. Clarence on vocal and banjo in ‘sawmill’ tuning; Doc playing guitar in a ‘modal adaptation’.

From Crow’s 11th full length studio album, the nine-time Grammy Award winner and 2023 Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee.

A long-time member of Cajun band Beausoleil, Doucet is a master of fingerstyle guitar. He plays this in DADGAD tuning. A Cajun adaptation of the Child ballad, ‘The House Carpenter’.

Texas singer-songwriter whose releases stretch back to the late ’80s, and include recordings in English, Spanish, and a mix of both.

Co-produced by Phil Spector. Harrison recorded the track in London backed by musicians such as Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock, Klaus Voormann, Jim Gordon and Jim Price – many of whom he had toured with, as Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, in December 1969, while still officially a member of the Beatles.

Album produced by husband T Bone Burnette.

Costello plays all instruments on this recording, which was recorded in Holland.

‘Lifeline’ contains many traditional Protestant gospel songs DeMent describes as finding comfort in playing and singing. DeMent recounts how her mother sang these songs in times of stress looking straight at the sky, "as if she were talking to someone."

Covered many times, this is the original, arranged and produced by Allen Toussaint. The single reached No. 3 on the Billboard R&B chart and No. 28 on the Hot 100 in 1960.

In the more than five years since their second album was released, founding members Deanie Richardson and Gena Britt saw changes in personnel and coped with a pandemic that shut down touring, while, in the middle of all that, earning multiple awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association, including its top Entertainer of the Year honor in 2020. This song is ‘about feeling a love so strong, you need to come up with a new way to say it.’

Burnette’s first new solo album in nearly 20 years! And it was worth the wait!! The Guardian calls it ‘a radiant meditation'.

Originally recorded in 1935 by an amazingly talented woman named Valaida Snow, a virtuoso American jazz musician and entertainer who became an internationally celebrated talent. She was known as “Little Louis,” “Queen of the Trumpet,” and was referred to by Louis Armstrong as “the second-best trumpet player in the world.” On ‘Let’s Get Happy Together’, an album of Dixieland jazz made with Tuba Skinny, the New Orleans street band, Maria Muldaur gives us a delightful collection of tracks that could have been recorded 100 years ago.

Just a fun little ditty by Mr. Boy George!

Pratt’s latest album opens with this track about the vagaries of ambition. “Life came and went and you didn’t land where you thought you would,” Pratt says of the song. It’s got a ‘big panoramic sound’, a ‘grand, orchestral style of ’60s pop hits like the Walker Brothers’ “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore.”

Morrison wrote most of the songs while he was staying in the Cotswold village of Epwell, England, and the sense of place is reflected in the spirit of the music. During this time, he would often walk through the fields with his guitar, composing the future album's songs. Robin Williamson – penny whistle.

Guy died almost exactly 8 years ago. Friend Rodney Crowell took the helm for this project of gathering the tons of demo tapes Clark had made over the years, and harvesting some of the gems for an album. Based on the title, there will be more coming, down the road. This track was never before released.

Band from Kansas City, Missouri. The original trio consisted of the siblings Danielle (lead vocals and bass), Nick (guitars and vocals) and Kris Schnebelen (drums and vocals).