Majek Fashek
Jah PeopleSpirit of Love 1991
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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!
Spirit of Love 1991
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Paul Rishell & Annie Raines
Got To FlyI Want You to Know 1996 via Tone Cool
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W.C. Handy Award Winners
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Guitar Frank
Lonesome Road BluesIntroduction To Living Country Blues USA 1981 via L&R
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Disliked Travel...Stayed Close To His Piedmont Home His Entire Life
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Cephas & Wiggins
Reno FactoryGoin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad 1980 via Evidence
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When It Comes To The Country Blues, These Two Internationally Famous And Well Honored Gentlemen Are Among The Very Finest.
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Grace Potter (click for more info)
Support for WYCE comes from
Right Arm Resource presenting Grace Potter at Kalamazoo State Theatre, Sunday, October 25th.
Grace Potter returns to Michigan in support of her forthcoming debut solo album 'Midnight.' It's her first new music since 2012's "The Lion, The Beast, The Beat."
Tickets are on sale through Kalamazoo State Theatre ticket office & all Ticketmaster locations, TicketMaster.com, or by phone at 800-745-3000
Pete Kennedy
Union SquareHeart of Gotham 2015 via Independent
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Pete's First Solo Effort In Twenty Years Written In A Series Of Early Morning Sessions Over Coffee At An East Village Diner. It Is An Ode To His Beloved NYC
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Merle Haggard And The Strangers
Medley: The Runnin' Kind/I'm A Lonesome FugitiveRainbow Stew (Live At Anaheim Stadium) 1981 via Geffen
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Vintage Haggard!
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Patsy Cline & The Jordonaires
StrangeSentimentally Yours 1962 via Decca
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Patsy's Final Studio Recording Before Her Death In A Plane Crash Less Than A year Later. Opry Stars Cowboy Copas & Hawkshaw Hawkins Also Perished In the Crash.
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Cassandra Wilson
Only a Dream in RioBelly Of The Sun 2002 via Blue Note Records
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Multiple Grammy Awards Winner
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9:20 am
The Railsplitters
Planted On the GroundThe Faster It Goes 2015 via Independent
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Boulder, Co.
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Altan
The House Carpenter (Gypsy Davy)The Widening Gyre 2015 via Compass
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The Group Formed In County Donegal In 1987. The New Album Was Recorded In Nashville
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Mountain Jam: DeZurik Sisters
The Arizona Yodeler [1938]The Arizona Yodeler 2015 via Roslin
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Recorded June 8, 1938, Chicago. Also Known As The "Cackle Sisters," They Were Two Of The First Women To Become Stars Of The Grand Ole Opry And the National Barn Dance, Broadcasting From WLS Radio, Chicago.
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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson
You Must Come In At The DoorOn Praying Ground 1993 via Sugar Hill
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Wonderful Down-Home Gospel.
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9 O'Clock Doc: The Watson Family
Just A Friend [1963]Songs From The Southern Mountains 1994 via Sugar Hill
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Previously Unreleased Material From The Early 1960's As Well As Three Tracks Recorded In 1973. On "Just A Friend," Doc Duets With His Mother, Rosa Lee Watson.
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Ted Hawkins
Gypsy WomanHappy Hour 1986 via Rounder / Pgd
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Mississippi Born Singer/Songwriter Remaining An Enigmatic Figure Throughout His Career, Preferring The Busking Life On Venice Beach. Here He Takes The Impressions Undercover.
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Cheryl Wheeler
All the Live Long DaySylvia Hotel 1999 via Philo / Pgd
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Appearing With Ruth Bloomquist At Seven Steps Up In Spring Lake 11/14, 8 PM
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The Black Lillies
Bound to RoamHard to Please 2015 via Thirty Tigers
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The Third Release From This Quintet From Knoxville - Founded By Cruz Contreras, Formerly Of Robinella & The CC String Band. The Band Appears At The Livery In Benton Harbor 11/23
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Joel Mabus
Betsy from PikeAmerican Anonymous 2011 via Independent
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Appearing At Ten Pound Fiddle On The Campus Of MSU, 12/4
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8:40 am
Spoonful Of Blues: Martha Copeland
Second-Hand Daddy [1928]Martha Copeland Vol. 2 (1927-1928) 2005 via Document
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?/?/?-?/?/?/?. Recorded Thirty-Four Sides In Five years Beginning In 1923.
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Spoonful Of Blues: Big Bill Broonzy
I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town [1942]Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 11, 1940-1942 2005 via Document
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6/26/1893-8/14/1958..A Key Figure In the Development Of Twentieth Century Blues
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This Is '820' Jazz: The Jimmy Heath Quartet
Hot HouseYou Or Me 1995 via Steeplechase
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Tony Purrone, Guitar...Albert Heath, Drums...Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Bass...Jimmy Heath, Tenor
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Cahalen Morrison
Over and Over and Over AgainThe Flower of Muscle Shoals 2014 via Free Dirt
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With His Band "Country Hammer," Now Based Out Of Denver. He And Eli West Are Back In The Studio Recording Another Album In Early 2016.
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David Peterson & 1946
1946In The Mountaintops To Roam 2005 via David Peterson & 1946
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Seem To Like The Song So Much He Named His Band '1946'
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Audie Blaylock/J.D. Crowe/Kenny Ingram/Paul Williams
Doin' My TimeA Tribute To The King Of Bluegrass: Jimmy Martin 2004 via Koch
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Four Alumni Of The 'Sunny Mountain Boys' Paying Tribute The "King Of Bluegrass," Jimmy Martin
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The Cox Family
I'm Not So Far AwayGone Like The Cotton 2015 via Rounder Records
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From Cotton Valley, Louisiana...Alison Krauss Helped Them With Their First Recording Contract, However, They Gained Some Major Street Cred When Adam Duritz Of Counting Crows Invited Them To Open For The Band During Its' 1994 North American Tour.
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Lorraine Jordan & The Carolina Road Band
Rose GardenCountry Grass 2015 via Pinecastle
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Written By Joe South In 1968 & A Major Cross-Over Hit For Lynn Anderson 1970
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Nora Jane Struthers
Sourwood TreeCarnival 2013 via 1-2-3-4-GO!
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Welcome To Traditions
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