Doña Oxford, 2 p.m.

If you want to hear some of the best, most energetic boogie-woogie and barrel-house blues piano around, make sure you get to the Fest site early on Sunday for Doña Oxford. As Blues Revue says, her work on the ivories is "stunning."

David Horwitz, workshop 1 p.m. Saturday

David has been traveling to festivals and clubs for years in search of great blues music for his ears and visual images to capture on film. This year he shot the Legendary Blues Cruise, and served as a judge at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee.

The theme of Lois Deloatch's workshop on June 17 at the River Music Experience is "the singer as an interpreter of music," and the irony is that her first CD (1998's Sunrise) was a collection of her own songs.

But for the North Carolina-based jazz singer - who will also perform a concert that night as part of the Third Sunday Jazz Matinée & Workshop Series presented by Polyrhythms - the line between original work and interpretation is hazy.

One reviewer has called Sky Blue Sky the best Eagles record the Eagles didn't make, and it's impossible to shake the timeless soft-rock vibe in the sound, the vocals, and the easy pace.

"A Ghost Is Born was to me really jagged ... abrasive," Stirratt said of his band's last studio album. "And this record has a certain warmth."

But while Sky Blue Sky at first sounds like a retreat for the band that embraced noise and electronics on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born, Wilco hasn't abandoned experimentation. "Side with the Seeds" features guitar and Mellotron detours that, combined with slightly muffled drums and throbbing bass spikes, recalls King Crimson's disparate In the Court of the Crimson King and Red.