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One of the major American early music ensembles, The Baltimore Consort, was founded in 1980. On this Continuum your'll hear a wide variety of excerpts…

Continuum presents “The Lost Spindle”, a Renaissance Spanish “folk opera”; the CD notes call it “a romance in song”. It is full of folk tunes from the…

Jeff Tweedy grew up in Belleville, Illinois, a midsized, blue-collar suburb of St. Louis. In high school he started a band with Jay Farrar that became…

Songmaker Brandi Carlile was raised in the Northwest country, but has lived half her life on the road as a gigging musician. After dropping out of high…

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were East Coast guys out in California, who began writing and producing for groups like the Coasters and the Drifters in the…

Americana icon Jim Lauderdale followed his love of music from the Carolinas to Nashville, New York and Los Angeles. Despite great songs, his genre-defying…

Carlos Santana began playing mariachi on violin in the streets of Tijuana, but he was soon drawn to blues musicians: BB King, Jimmy Reed, and John Lee…

This week on American Routes, we’ve got live performances by the Soul Rebels. We go to the stage for a conversation with the group’s founding fathers,…

This week on American Routes we're celebrating the National Heritage Fellows, past and present. It’s our annual tribute to great traditional artists,…

When Tanya Tucker was just thirteen, she had something most teenagers couldn’t even imagine: a recording contract with Columbia Records and the studio…