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Kat : In probably the best moment of the album, Holly Near , Pat Humphries and Sandy O's voices combine on the chorus with "Don't you rock 'em daddy-o, don't you rock 'em daddy-o." It's a moment that recalls "Oh River" from Holly's last album Show Up .

Radio Icon George Taylor Morris who was most recently the daily morning host on XM Satellite Radio's 'Deep Tracks' classic rock channel and was the primary host of the company's "XM Artist Confidential" series, an all-star interview program that featured music stars ranging from Paul McCartney and Willie Nelson to Faith Hill and the late folk great ...

Muddy Waters first played the Newport Folk Festival in 1960. The Newport Folk Festival will mark its 50th anniversary next weekend with a lineup that includes Pete Seeger and other musicians who performed at the first festival in 1959.

That's what a national TV newscast asked one night in 1966. Dylan had just smashed himself up in a motorcycle accident in the Ulster County Town of Woodstock, where he lived for much of the '60s. The rumors were flying as fast as the spitfire words to "Subterranean Homesick Blues." IF YOU GO What: Bob Dylan and His Band, John Mellencamp, Willie ...

A few weeks ago, in an elongated, procrastinatory trolling of YouTube, I came across this amazing video of the folk singer Odetta performing at the Newport Folk Festival in the early 1960s.

In 1985, Radoslav Lorkovic played at the first Blues Fest. At last year's festival, Radoslav was the piano man with the Holmes Brothers.

The eclectic spiritual blues mix of Eric Bibb will come alive on the El Camino College stage at 8 p.m. Friday.

High praise ... Ruthie Foster has become an icon to other folk, soul and blues singers.