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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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Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley

Biscuits And Gravy
The Country Blues 2016 via Compass
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions Returns Next Week, 8 AM

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Hot Tuna

Where There's Two There's Trouble
Beacon Theater, NYC 11/20/2015 2016 via Hot Tuna
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Jorma & Jack At The Ark, 8/10 Ann Arbor

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Chris Smither

Take Out Some Insurance
What I Learned In School 2011 via Signature
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Chris's Music Draws Deeply From The Blues, American Folk, And Modern Poets And Philosophers

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Big Mama Thornton

I'm Feeling Alright
Big Mama Thornton With The Muddy Waters Blues Band 1966 via Chess
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Composer Of And The First Recording Of 'Hound Dog'

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9:40 am

Aziza Brahim

Abbar el Hamada
Abbar El Hamada 2016 via Glitterbeat
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Born And Raised In The Oppressive Refugee Camps Lining The Frontier Between Algeria And Western Sahara - Fleeing To Cuba As A Teen And Eventually To Spain

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Joel Zoss

Pretty Flowers
Lila 2016 via Catalan
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Been Around Since The 1960's, Cutting His Teeth With Some Of The Great Chicago Bluesman Of That Era

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The Red Sea Pedestrians

Morning Glow
See Through the Eyes of Osiris 2016 via Earthworks
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Cowpie Music Festival, 8/12 - Celebrating Ten Years Of Performing Together - This Is Their Fourth Release

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9:20 am
Meijer Gardens | Tuesday Evening Music Club -Week3 (click for more info)

WYCE is a media sponsor for the Tuesday Evening Music Club at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.

This week experience 'Camille and the Complicated Animals':

A blend of bossanova, indie pop - and contemporary crooning.

Tuesday Evening Music Club occurs at 7:00pm at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.

More information on the 2016 lineup is at meijer gardens dot o-r-g

Michael McDermott

Half Empty Kinda Guy
Willow Springs 2016 via Pauper Sky
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Fresh Into 'YCE...Pick This One Up

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Stevie Wonder

Blowin' In The Wind
Up-Tight 1966 via Tamla
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Stevie's Fifth Release, He Had Just Turned Sixteen Years Of Age

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Bill Johnson & His Musical Notes

Shorty's Got To Go [1947]
That Devlin' Tune: A Jazz History (1895-1950) 2011
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Reed Player For Several Big Bands During The 1940's - This Song Is On His R&B Side

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Cannon's Jug Stompers

Mule Get Up In The Alley [1929]
The Cornshuckers' Frolic: Classic Recordings From the 1920's & '30's, Vol. 2 2006 via Yahoo
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Seminal Figures On the Memphis Blues Scene During The Late 1920's - A Favorite Source Of Early Blues Material For The Grateful Dead

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Ragpicker String Band

Motel Towel
The Ragpicker String Band 2015 via Yellow Dog
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Mary Flower, Martin Grosswendt & Rich DelGrosso

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Abigail Washburn

Keys To The Kingdom
The Sparrow Quartet - EP 2006 via Nettwerk
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She & Bela Begin A Tour Of The U.S And Australia On 7/24 Taking Them To March Of 2017 - Alon the Way Abby Plans On Several Reunion Shows With Her Former Bands Uncle Earl And Wu Fei

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9:00 am

Heritage Blues Orchestra

Levee Camp Holler
And Still I Rise 2012 via Raisin Music
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The Bottom Shelf Bourbon Trio

Police Dog Blues
Already Gone 2016
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Somewhere Between The High, Lonesome Sound Of Bluegrass, The Low-Down Grit Of The Blues, A Touch Of '20s Swing & '80s Punk is The Bottom Shelf Bourbon Trio

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Neil Young and the Shocking Pinks

Bright Lights, Big City
Everbody's Rockin' 1983 via Geffen
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Undercover: Jimmy Reed, 1961 -

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Brown Bird

Danger And Dread
The Devil Damcing 2099 via Brown Bird
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Forming In Seattle In 2003 & Spending a Few Years In Rhode Island - The Band's Sound Lives On The Darker Side Of American Folk, Taking Influence From Eastern European Roots Music - They Are No Longer Together

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Sara Watkins

Invisible
Young In All The Wrong Ways 2016 via New West
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Sara Is 'YCE's Artist Of The Day On Thursday

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8:40 am

Spoonful Of Blues: Louisiana Red

Sad New Blues
The Lowdown Back Porch Blues 1963 via Warner
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March 23, 1932 Alabama - February 25. 2012 Germany

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Spoonful Of Blues: Big Boy Knox

Poor Man's Blues
San Antonio Blues 1937 1994 via Document
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?/?/???? Unknown - ?/?/??? Unknown

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This Is '820' Jazz: Hank Mobley Quintet

Recado Bossa Nova
Dippin' 1960 via Blue Note
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Lee Morgan, Trumpet...Harold Mabern, Piano...Lee Ridley, Bass...Billy Higgins, Drums...Hank Mobley, Tenor Sax

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8:20 am

Catherine Russell

Blue Memories
Cat 2006 via World Village
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Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys

The Brakeman's Blues [1950]
The Invention Of Bluegrass: Bill Monroe 2014 via Shami Media
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This Is Considered The "High Lonesome," Version Of The Bluegrass Boys: Jimmy Martin, Rudy Lyle & Vassar Clements

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The Earls of Leicester

The Girl I Love Don't Pay Me No Mind
Rattle & Roar 2016 via Rounder
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Tribute To Flatt & Scruggs Continues

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The Show Ponies

Stupid (Featuring Noam Pikelny)
Run for Your Life 2015 via show pony publishing
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The Devil Makes Three

Drunken Hearted Man
Redemption & Ruin 2016 via New West
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Tom Rigney

New World
Back Streets 2012 via Parhelion
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With His Award Winning Band, Flambeau

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8:00 am