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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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Motor City Jazz Octet

Black Friday
Beyond Words 2015 via Empire Venture Group
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose" Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Beans Hambone & El Morrow

Beans
Country Blues Outlaws 2009 via Goldenlane
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Fascinating Song Dating Back to Civil War; Out Of Tune Banjo On The Subject Of Beans - Of Course, You Heard It On Traditions!

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Alvin Youngblood Hart

Them Fair Weather Friends
Big Mama's Door 1996 via Sony
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Jenna Mammina & Rolf Sturm

Crazy Fingers
Begin To Dance 2017 via Water Street Music
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Composers: Robert Hunter & Jerome Garcia

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9:40 am

Lindsay Straw

The Crafty Maid's Policy_Fingal's
The Fairest Flower of Womankind 2017 via Independent
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Yonder Mountain String Band

Alison
Love. Ain't Love 2017 via Frog Pad
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Street Date: 6/23

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Pokey LaFarge

Good Country Girls
Middle Of Everywhere 2011 via Free Dirt Records
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Hear Music From Pokey's Latest Album "Manic Revelations," Here On 'YCE

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Bonnie Bramlett

A Change Is Gonna Come
Roots, Blues & Jazz 2006 via Zoho
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A Tip Of the Hat To Sam Cooke

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9:20 am

Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike

Bessie's Tune
Small Town Heroes 2016 via Valerie June
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Tom Gray On the Lead Giving Us The Rundown About His Bass, "Bessie"

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Helen Humes

Sneaking Around With You [1951]
A Good Man Is Hard To Find 2009 via Dobre
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Composer: Eddie Green - First Recording By Marion Harris, 1919

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Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge

Everything Must Go
Mount Royal 2017 via Free Dirt
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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson & Frosty Morn

Coo Coo Bird
Round The Table Again 2002 via Sugar Hill
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Traditional English Folk Song - Early Notable Recorded Version Was Performed By Appalachian Folk Musician Clarence Ashley With A Unique Banjo Tuning

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson & Frosty Morn

Lynchburg Town
Round The Table Again 2002 via Sugar
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Frosty Morn: Side Project Of Merle's Formed Shortly Before His Death In 1985

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9:00 am

Joel Mabus

Brady
Thumb Thump 2002
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Jammie Award Winner & Good Friend To Us All

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Quiles & Cloud

Feelin' Good
Shake Me Now 2017 via Compass Records
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Maria Quiles & Rory Cloud, 2011

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Harpeth Rising

Westbound From Polaris
Against All Tides 2017 via Harpeth Rising
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Sophomore Release - Jordana Greenberg, Michelle Younger & Maria Di Meglio - Genre-Benders Fusing Their Own Organically Unique Art - Three-Part Harmonies Reminiscent Of Appalachia & Medieval Europe

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Otis Gibbs

Empire Hole
Mount Renraw 2017 via Wanamaker
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Alice Stuart

Kassie Jones
All the Good Times 1964 via Arhoolie
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8:40 am

Spoonful Of Blues: Furry Lewis

Everybody's Blues
Furry Lewis 1927-1929 2003 via Document
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March 6, 1891 Mississippi - September 14, 1981 Memphis

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Spoonful Of Blues: Furry Lewis

Glory Glory (Lay My Burden Down)
Blues Magician 1969 via Lucky Seven
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Major Figure On The Memphis Blues Revival Scene Of The 1960's And '70's, Decades After He Made His Historic In First Recordings In The 1920's - Master Of Multiple Guitar Techniques; Impressive Bottleneck Guitarist, Expressive Voice - Personified The Relaxed And Intimate Character Of Early Country Blues

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'820' Jazz Presents: Eddie Palmieri

Jibarita y Su Son
Sabiduria 2017 via Ropeadope
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John Benitez, Bass...Anthony Carrillo, Bongo...Camilo Molina, Timbales...Little Johnny Rivero, Congas...Eddie Palmieri, Piano

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8:20 am

B-Side Growlers

Take This Hammer
Home Brewed 2017 via Independent
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GR Flavorings! Mary, Matt & Pete

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Bobby Osborne

Eight More Miles
Original 2017 via Compass
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Produced By Alison Brown

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The Red Clay Ramblers

The Girl Behind The Bar [1971]
Classic Bluegrass Vol. 2 From Smithsonian Folkways 2005 via Smithsonian Folkways
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With Fiddlin' Al Canless

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Rosanne Cash

Tennessee Flat Top Box
King's Record Store 1987 via Sony
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Johnny, 1961

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The Gibson Brothers

Fools Hill
In The Ground 2017 via Rounder
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The Trail Band

Two Romanian Dances
Immigrant Dreams 1997 via Trails End
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Eight Piece Performance Group From Oregon That Specializes In Dramatizing The Music And History Of the West

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Tim O'Brien

Drunkard's Grave
Where The River Meets The Road 2017 via Howdy Skies Records
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