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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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Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder

Diaraby
Talking Timbuktu 1994 via Hannibal
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week, 8 AM
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Dee Dee Bridgewater, Irvin Mayfield, NOJO

One Fine Thing
Dee Dee's Feathers 2015 via OKeh
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Flint, MI - Three-Time Grammy And A Tony Award Recipient - Made Her New York Debut In 1970 As The Lead Vocalist For One Of The Premier Jazz Orchestras Of All Time Led By Thad Jones And Mel Lewis

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Henry Townsend, Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, Robert Lockwood, Jr, David "Honeyboy" Edwards,

If You Don't Want Me
The Last Of The Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen, Live In Dallas 2007 via Blue Shoe Project
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At The Time Of This Recording The Four Blues Legends Were From 89 To 94 Years Old And Represented The Last Performers Of Delta Blues From The 1920's - Awards: Best Traditional Blues Album, 2008
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Steve Forbert

My Blue-Eyed Jane
Any Old Time (Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers) 2002 via Koch Records
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Steve's Tribute To The 'Singing Brakeman,' Jimmie Rodgers, 1936
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Yonder Mountain String Band

Pass This Way/E.M.D.
Mountain Tracks, Vol. 6 2017 via Frog Pad
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9:20 am
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Chick Webb & His Orchestra w/ Ella Fitzgerald

I Got The Spring Fever Blues
The Complete Decca Singles Vol. 1: 1935-1939 2017 via Verve
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Recorded In 1936; Ella Had Just Turned Nineteen Years Of Age

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Ervin Webb/Unidentified Prisoners

I'm Going Home
I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Till I Die: Alan Lomax's Southern Journey, 1959-1960 2011 via Odyssey
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Prison Gang Work Song Recorded By Alan Lomax At Parchman Farm, Mississippi State Penitentiary
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Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi

Like Sonny Did
Live: The Folk Alley Sessions 2017 via Courtesy: Folk Alley & Beehive Productions
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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

CC Rider
The Bottom Line Archive Series (2002) 2015 via Bottom Line Cabaret
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Doc's Final Appearance At The Bottom Line, A Club He Had Played Over Thirty Times - He Creates His Usual Easy Intimacy Of A Back-Porch Performance

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Workin' Man Blues
The Bottom Line Archive Series (2002) 2015 via Bottom Line Cabaret
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Doc Would Turn 79 Years Old During That Weekend
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Fonn Mor

Woman of the House / Man of the House / Maudabon's Chapel
Along the Way 2007 via Independent
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GR Seasonings!

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Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon

Ya Mar
Sixty Six Steps 2005 via RCA
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The O's

Found The One
Thunderdog 2013 via Punch Five
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Founded: Dallas, TX, 2008 - Mantra: "Creating New Music For Good People"
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Richard Buckner

Daisychain
Bloomed 1994 via Slow River
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Online Suggestion
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Abigail Lapell

Night Bird And Morning Bird
Hide Nor Hair 2017 via Coax
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Traces Of Frazey Ford & Sandy Denny
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Spoonful Of Blues: Moses 'Whispering' Smith

Take Me Back Baby
American Blues Legends '73 1973 via Big Bear
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January 25, 1932 Mississippi - April 28, 1984 Louisiana (52)

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Spoonful Of Blues: Moses 'Whispering' Smith

I Tried So Hard [1966]
House Rockin' & Hip Shakin': The Best Of Excello Blues 1997 via Universal
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His Voice: Loud, Rough And Deep; Harmonica Style: Bold And Rounded, With Agile Runs And Tasteful Licks - Gigged With Lightnin' Hopkins In The Late 1950's, And Later With Silas Hogan - Made It On The Tail End Of The Swamp Blues Movement - Appeared In The Documentary Blues Legends; Inducted Into The Louisiana Blues Hall Of Fame

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'820' Jazz Presents: Freddie Hubbard

The Melting Pot
Blue Spirits 1965 via Blue Note
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Elvin Jones, Drums...Hosea Taylor, Alto Sax...Reggie Workman, Bass...Herbie Hancock, Piano...Joe Henderson, Tenor Sax...Freddie Hubbard, Trumpet

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The Waifs

Not The Lonely
Ironbark 2017 via Compass Records
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Formed In 1992 By Sisters Vikki Thorn & Donna Simpson
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The Tillers

500 Miles
Hand On The Plow 2013 via Muddy Roots
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Cincinnati's Traveling Minstrels; Recovering Rockers With Roots In The City's West Side Punk Scene, An Influence Giving Their Sound Some Distinctive Bite

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Nanci Grffith

Lone Star State Of Mind
Lone Star State Of Mind 1987 via MCA
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Nanci's Fifth Release 30 Years Ago - Bela Fleck, Banjo; Lucy Kaplansky, Background Vocals
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J.D. Crowe & The New South

Rovin' Gambler
Lefty's Old Guitar 2006 via Rounder
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First Came to Prominence Playing Banjo With Jimmy Martin In The 1950's - His New South Has Seen Many Influential Musicians Pass Through - J.D. Turns 80 In This Summer And Has Since Retired
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Bobby Osborne

They Call The Wind Maria
Original 2017 via Compass
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He & Sonny Are Back On The Road Appearing At Ojibway St. Park, 6/17 Saginaw
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Cindy Cashdollar

Midnight In Old Amarillo
Slide Show 2004 via Silver Shot
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Steel Guitar: Herb Remington
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