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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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Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau

The Watcher
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau 2017 via Nonesuch
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week, 8 AM
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Nathan James And Ben Hernandez

My Backyard
Hollerin' 2007 via Sacred Cat
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First release As A Duo - 2007: Took 1st Place At The International Blues Challenge In Memphis - Current Band: Nathan James & The Rhythm Scratchers (WYCE)

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Evie Ladin

Weathering
Evie Ladin Band 2012 via Evil Diane Records
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K. Jones & The Benzie Playboys

Grand Marais Two Step
Morning Train 2016 via Independent
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Jammies XVIII Traditions! Award Nominee

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Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars

Pretty Little Missy
The Decca Singles 1949-1958 2016 via Verve
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New Orleans, LA - Renowned For His Charismatic Stage Presence And Voice Almost As Much As For His Trumpet Playing, Armstrong's Influence Extends Well Beyond Jazz, And By The End Of His Career In The 1960's, He Was Widely Regarded As A Profound Influence On Popular Music
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9:40 am
Cloud Nothings (click for more info)

Join us this Monday at 3:20 as we're joined live in-studio by Cleveland's indie rock band Cloud Nothings. Host Adrian Skye welcomes the band who will share acoustic performances of songs from the new album Life Without Sound, ahead of their performance at Calvin College Covenant Fine Arts Center.

Harry Manx

Voodoo Child
Harry Manx & Friends - Live At The Glenn Gold Studio 2007 via Dog My Cat
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Undercover: Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1968 (Electric Ladyland)
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The Brain Cloud

When You Wore A Tulip
Outside Looking In 2013 via Triple Treble
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New York City, NY

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Bela Fleck And Abigail Washburn

And Am I Born To Die
Bela Fleck And Abigail Washburn 2014 via Rounder
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Performing: Kalamazoo State Theater, 5/11 - Astounding Chemistry As Collaborators - Grammy Award For Best Folk Album
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9:20 am
Bay-la Fleck & Abigail Washburn (click for more info)

Tickets are now on sale for Folk artists Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn at the Kalamazoo State Theatre on Thursday May 11th! 

The recipient of multiple Grammy Awards and nominations going back to 1998, Béla Fleck's total Grammy count is 16 Grammys won, with 30 nominations. 

Abigail is a formidable talent with triumphs in songwriting, theater, performance, and even Chinese diplomacy by way of banjo.

More information may be found at Kazoo State dot com

The Codgers

Reflecting on My Health
Lichfield 2016 via Independant
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Jammies XVIII Traditions! Award Nominee
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Darrell Scott & Tim O' Brien

Weary Blues From Waiting
Real Time 2005 via Full Light
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Undercover: Hank Williams, 1953 (Recorded As a Demo In 1951 With "The Drifting Cowboys"
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Hedy West

The Rich Irish Lady
Old Times & Hard Times 1965 via topic
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Cartersville, GA - Composer: 500 Miles - Belonged To The Same Generation Of Folk Revivalists As Joan Baez And Judy Collins
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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson And Clarence Ashley

Tough Luck
Original Folkway Recordings Of Doc Watson And Clarence Ashley: 1960-1962 1994 via Smithsonian Folkways
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At The Time Of These Recordings, Doc Didn't Own An Acoustic Guitar; Ashley Himself Didn't Own A Banjo And Hadn't Played For 20 Years - This Historic Album Includes Material Of The First Commercially Released Recordings By Watson

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson And Clarence Ashley

Sitting On Top Of The world
Original Folkways Recordings Of Doc Watson And Clarence Ashley: 1960-1962 1994 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Clarence Ashley: Clawhammer Banjoist, Guitarist And Comedian - Began Performing In 1911 At Medicine Shows In The Southern Appalachians - "Rediscovered" During The 1960's Folk Revival - Here, He And Doc Mine a Nugget Written By Sam Chatmon And Lonnie Vinson, Core Members Of The Mississippi Sheiks, 1930

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9:00 am
Jammies/Feeding America (click for more info)

WYCE once again partners with Feeding America West Michigan for this year's Jammie Awards ceremony, next Friday, February 10th at The Intersection.


Please bring a cash donation or donation of non-perishable food items to help provide safe meals for the hungry in our community. in 2016 Feeding America West Michigan distributed a record 28.9 million pounds of food, the equivalent of 24 million meals to nearly half-a-million people.

Jammies 18 is free and all ages are welcome. $5 donation to WYCE is also suggested.




Yarn

Hard Luck Man
Leftovers Vol. 2 2011 via Ardsley Music
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Brooklyn, NY Based Quartet's Sound Owes As Much to Gram Parsons And Earl Scruggs As to Jerry Garcia And The Exile On Main Street-Era Roling Stones

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Lightnin' Hopkins

Automobile Blues
Bluebird Blues 1965 via Bluebird
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Centerville, TX - Performed With Blind Lemon Jefferson At Age Eight - Seldom Needed A Second Take - First Recordings In 1946 With His Cousin, Texas Alexander - The Folk/Blues Revival Gave Lightnin' His World Stage, Headlining The 1965 Newport Folk Festival - Lived A Life In Music He Could Never Have Imagined While Chained To His Bunk Back On The Brazo's (1930's)
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CrossBow

Bottom of the River
Crossbow 2016 via Independent
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Jammies XVIII Traditions! Award Nominee
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Otis Gibbs

Kathleen
Mount Renraw 2017 via Wanamaker
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Wanamaker, IN - The Best Unknown Songwriter In Music Today

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The Lowest Pair

Ruben's Fortune
The Sacred Heart Sessions 2015 via Team Love
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Minneapolis, MN - Kendl Winter & Palmer Lee; Seven Steps Up, 3/9 Spring Lake, MI

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8:40 am
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Spoonful Of Blues: Georgia Cotton Pickers

She's Coming Back Some Rainy Day [1930]
Rough Guide To East Coast Blues 2015 via World Music Network
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Only A Few Recordings Have Survived - The Great Depression Hampered Distribution - Eighteen Months In To The Collaboration, Barbecue Bob Dropped Dead And Eddie Mapp Was Stabbed To Death On A Street Corner - The Music They Recorded Together Represents Some Of The Finest Country Blues Put To Vinyl

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Spoonful Of Blues: Georgia Cotton Pickers

I'm On My Way Down Home
The Reverand Is My Man (Blues People 1930-1931) 2015 via Salt & Pepper
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Barbecue Bob - Charlie Hicks - Buddy Moss - Eddie Mapp - Curley Weaver - Individually, These Five Represented The Best On the Atlanta Blues Scene - Short-Lived Partnership Founded In 1929

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820 Jazz Presents: The Paul Desmond Quintet

Romance De Amor
Skylark 1973 via CTI
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Bob James, Piano...Ron Carter,Bass...Ralph MacDonald, Percussion...Jack DeJohnette, Drums...Paul Desmond, Alto Saxophone - Special Guest Guitarist, Gabor Sabor

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8:20 am
Bay-la Fleck & Abigail Washburn (click for more info)

Tickets are now on sale for Folk artists Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn at the Kalamazoo State Theatre on Thursday May 11th! 

The recipient of multiple Grammy Awards and nominations going back to 1998, Béla Fleck's total Grammy count is 16 Grammys won, with 30 nominations. 

Abigail is a formidable talent with triumphs in songwriting, theater, performance, and even Chinese diplomacy by way of banjo.

More information may be found at Kazoo State dot com

Darin And Brooke Aldridge

Highway Of Heartache
Faster and Farther 2017 via Mountain Home Music Co.
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Composer: Carl Jackson - Guest Vocal: Vince Gill
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Mac Wiseman

Barefoot Till After The Frost
I Sang The Song 2017 via Mountain Fever
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Lead Vocal: Jim Lauderdale - Mac Wiseman; Guitarist for The Foggy Mountain Boys Joining In 1948 - One Of The Cult Figures Of Bluegrass - Was There With Flatt And Scruggs, Bill Monroe The Stanley Brothers - Mac Turns 94 In A Couple Of Months - Country Music Hall Of Fame Inductee
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Putnam Smith

This Mountain Ain't My Home
We Could Be Beekeepers 2011 via Itchy Sabot Records
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Rayna Gellert

I've Got No Honeybabe Now
Ways Of The World 2000 via Rayna Gellert
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Elkhart, IN - Co-Founder: Uncle Earl - This Song: Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers, 1927
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Premo & Gustavsson

Atlantic Waltz
I Walked Abroad 2016 via Independent
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Jammies XVIII Traditions! Award Nominee - Laurel Premo & Anna Gustavsson
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8:00 am
Jammies/Feeding America (click for more info)

WYCE once again partners with Feeding America West Michigan for this year's Jammie Awards ceremony, next Friday, February 10th at The Intersection.


Please bring a cash donation or donation of non-perishable food items to help provide safe meals for the hungry in our community. in 2016 Feeding America West Michigan distributed a record 28.9 million pounds of food, the equivalent of 24 million meals to nearly half-a-million people.

Jammies 18 is free and all ages are welcome. $5 donation to WYCE is also suggested.