Parker Milsap
20-year old singer-songwriter, Parker Milsap, has a new self-titled debut album
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Martin Sexton / The Milk Carton Kids
eTown welcomes back long-time guest and singer/songwriter Martin Sexton with his dynamic folk/rock and ?blue-eyed soul? sound. Also joining us is folk duo The Milk Carton Kids, who?ll share their delicate Simon-and-Garfunkel-esque harmonies and pared-down acoustic instrumentation; plus we?ve got an E-Chievement Award winner this week who?s working worldwide to provide the basics and help the hungry get out of poverty
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Jason D. Williams
Rockin? Jason D. Williams and his piano styling and acrobatics.
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Ellis Paul
Ellis Paul from greater Boston is featured on show #500 on this weeks' Art Of the Song
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Music and Memories Along the Mississippi: the Lewis Family Museum, Haney's Big House & New Orleans Jazz Funeral
how do we capture the intangible power of music and memories? We'll first take a tour of the Lewis Family Museum and liquor store in Ferriday, Louisiana, where Jerry Lee Lewis' sister Frankie Jean shows us around their family home decorated with show posters, weapons, magazine clippings, religious icons and other memorabilia. Then we'll visit with the mayor of Ferriday and the people who turned memories into reality of club/hotel/bus depot/post office Haney's Big House that burned down in 1966. Across the river in Natchez, MS, blues drummer and harp player Hezekiah Early looks back on playing in Haney's house band. Back down in New Orleans, we'll talk with Treme Brass Band's leader and snare drummer Benny Jones and bass drummer Joe Lastie about their late drummer and friend Uncle Lionel Batiste who was memorably embalmed standing up in street parade finery
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