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Traditions!

Traditions! Is A Weekly Two-Hour Presentation Following Musical Streams Passed Down Through Generations; Pathways Linked By A Sincere Appreciation And Acknowledgement Of The Influential Styles That Continue Shaping The Landscape Of American Roots Music: Early Influences - Pioneering Legends - Roots Revivalists - Indigenous Cultures. Thanks For Joining Us!

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Justin Townes Earle

They Killed John Henry
Midnight At The Movies 2009 via Bloodshot Records
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Rene Marie

John Henry
Voice of My Beautiful Country 2011 via Motema Music
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The Apache Honoring Song - Rita Coolidge
Tribal Voices- Music from Native Americans 1996 via Independent

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Spanish Harlem Orchestra

La Salsa Dura
Viva La Tradicion 2010 via Concord Records
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Working on a Building
Way Down Deep in My Soul- The Best of Sugar Hill Gospel, Vol. 2 1993 via Sugarhill [Country]

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Indigo Girls

Hammer and a Nail
Nomads Indians Saints 1990 via Sony
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Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips

Why Come
Fellow Workers 1999 via Righteous Babe
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Ballake Sissoko and Vincent Segal

Oscarine
Chamber Music 2009 via Six Degrees
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Alison Krauss & Union Station

Paper Airplane
Paper Airplane 2011 via Rounder
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Steve Young

Worker's Song (Handful of Earth)
Primal Young 2000 via Appleseed Records
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South Memphis String Band

Eighteen Hammers
Home Sweet Home 2009 via Memphis Int'L
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The Crane Wives

Counting Sheep
Safe Ship, Harbored
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Grand Rapids, Michigan!
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Now That The Buffalo's Gone
Greatest Folk Singers Of The 'Sixties 1986 via Vangaurd Records
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headlining Blissfest Music Festival July 8-10
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Minha Neguinha
Woman's World- A Six Degrees Collection of Global Women 2010 via Six Degrees

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Mose Allison

Some Right, Some Wrong
The Way of the World 2010 via Anti
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Written by Roosevelt Sykes
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Wimme

Iddesolla (Morning Coffee)
Instinct - Solo Joik 2004 via rockadillo
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Got My Mojo Working
American Roots Music- HIGHLIGHTS 2001 via Palm Pictures (Audio

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Steppin' In It

Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)
Simple Tunes for Troubled Times 2008 via Fox on a Hill

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Casey Jones
Don't Mourn - Organize! Songs Of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill 1990 via Smithsonian Folkways

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Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips

The Most Dangerous Woman
Fellow Workers 1999 via Righteous Babe
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Bruce Daigrepont

The Voice Of The Past
Paradis 1999 via Rounder Select
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Chim Chim Cher-Ee [From Mary Poppins]
Disney Jazz, Vol. 1- Everybody Wants to Be a Cat 2011 via Disney

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Sarah Jarosz

The Tourist
Follow Me Down 2011 via Sugarhill
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composed by Radiohead
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Rebel Girl/Mama's Hand
Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways 2002 via Smithsonian Folkways
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June 1, 1935 – April 22, 2011

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Shari Kane and Dave Steele

Rag Mama Rag
Four Hand Blues 2011 via Big Bones Music

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Doc & Merle Watson

Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
Pickin' The Blues 1985 via Flying Fish Records
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Merle Watson Feb 8, 1949-Oct 23, 1985
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