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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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Norman Blake

Paramount Rag
Chattanooga Sugar Babe 1998 via Shanachie
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions Returns Next Week." (comments: sundaytraditions@gmail.com)

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Blind Lemon Pledge

Ma Belle Cherie
Backwoods Glance 2017 via Independent
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Merline Johnson

Crime Doesn't Pay [1937]
Jailhouse Blues 2009 via goldenlane
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Blues Singer In The 1930's And 1940's, Billed As "The Yas Yas Girl" - Juke Joint Blues Was Her Specialty

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COMPILATIONS

Jailbird Love Song
Things About Comin' My Way- A Tribute to the Music of the Mississippi Sheiks 2009 via Black Hen Music
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Jim Byrnes Performing

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Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra

Blue Lou [1936]
Blue Lou 2017 via Masterclassics
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Led The Most Commercially Successful Of The African-American Jazz Bands Of The 1920's - Along With Duke Ellington, Is Considered One Of The Most Influential Arrangers And Bandleaders In Jazz History

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9:40 am

Josh Ritter

Showboat
Gathering 2017 via Sony
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Another Soon-To-Be Classic From One Of The Planet's Greatest Songwriters - From The Forthcoming Album; Street Date 9/17

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The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band

Lonesome, Onry And Mean
Lester's Lofin Lounge 2015 via Spring Fed
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Giving Waylon A Good Workout

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COMPILATIONS

Dodge
The Rough Guide to the Music of Ethiopia 2004 via World Music Network
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Vocalist: Netsanet Mellesse, One Of The New Breed Bringing Her Native Ethiopian To The World

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9:20 am
Tuesday Evening Music Club - Moonrays / 6 Pack (click for more info)

WYCE presents Tuesday Evening Music Club - every Tuesday at 7pm throughout the Summer at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.

This Tuesday, August 1st, Meijer Gardens welcomes vintage instrumental surf rock from The Moonrays, along with 6 Pack, the legendary, all-girl band formed in 1967.

More information on the 2017 lineup is at Meijer Gardens.org -- m-e-i-j-e-r gardens dot o-r-g

Catfish Keith

Shake Sugaree
Mississippi River Blues 2017 via Fish Tail
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Composer: Elizabeth Cotten

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Catherine Russell

The Darktown Strutters' Ball
Bring It Back 2014 via World Village
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Composed In 1917 By Shelton Brooks, It Is Considered a Jazz Standard Inducted Into The Grammy Hall Of Fame In 2006

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Daniel Bachman

Watermelon Slices On A blue Bordered Plate
Daniel Bachman 2016 via Daniel Bachman
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Mighty Fine Resonator Work

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

We Shall Be Reunited
Doc Watson & Son 1965 via Vanguard
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This Album Shows The Duo's Musical Partnership Already In Full Bloom - Merle Had Just Turned Seventeen Years Old

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9 O'Clock Doc: Peter Rowan

Doc Watson Morning
The Old School 2013 via Alliance
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Rowan First Met Doc In 1959; Hired To Play Guitar On A Small Tour Of New England - Began Writing This Song The Day After Doc Had Passed Away (2012)

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9:00 am

The Moonrays

Baja
Surf Rock & Blues 2013 via Independent
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Appearing: The Meijer Gardens Tuesday Evening Club This Coming Tuesday

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Old Blind Dogs

The Cruel Sister
Icons Of Scottish Folk: Old Blind Dogs 2014 via Music Kitchen
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Lizzie No

Hard Won
Hard Won 2017 via Lizzie No
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Brooklyn, NY

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Augie Meyers

Valley Of The San Joaquin
The Real Tex-Mex 2015 via Augie Meyers
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Rolling Out Of San Antonio In the Early '60's With The Sir Douglas Quintet, a Partnership Formed With Doug Sahm - Augie's Distictive Style And Sound Of His Vox Continental Organ Continues To Inspire Legions Of Musicians

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8:40 am

Spoonful Of Blues: Georgia White

Jazzin' Baby Blues
Georgia White Vol. 4, 1939-1941 1994 via Document
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March 9, 1903 ? - ?-?-1980 ?

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Spoonful Of Blues: Georgia White

Crazy Blues
Georgia White Vol. 3, 1937-1939 1994 via Document

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'820' Jazz Presents: Nat Adderly Quintet

Talkin' About You, Cannon
Talkin' About You 1991 via Landmark
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Rob Bargad, Piano...Vincent Herring, Alto Sax...Walter Booker, Bass...Jimmy Cobb, Drums...Nat Adderley, Cornet

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8:20 am
Tuesday Evening Music Club - Moonrays / 6 Pack (click for more info)

WYCE presents Tuesday Evening Music Club - every Tuesday at 7pm throughout the Summer at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.

This Tuesday, August 1st, Meijer Gardens welcomes vintage instrumental surf rock from The Moonrays, along with 6 Pack, the legendary, all-girl band formed in 1967.

More information on the 2017 lineup is at Meijer Gardens.org -- m-e-i-j-e-r gardens dot o-r-g

Old Salt Union

Flatt Baroque
Old Salt Union 2017 via Compass
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Belleville, IL - Their Music Occupies That Sweet Space Between Old Crow Folk And Yonder Mountain Jam

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Run Boy Run

Hello Stranger
I Would Fly (EP) 2016 via Run Boy Run
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Undercover; A.P. Carter, 1937

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The Tillers

Old West Side
Hand On The Plow 2013 via Muddy Roots
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A Quartet Of Roguish 'Grassers From Cincinnati, OH - Queen City Pickin'

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O'Connor Band & Mark O'Connor

Coming Home (Live)
O'Connor Band Live! 2017 via OMAC Records
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Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard

Can't You Hear Me Calling
Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass 1996 via Smithsonian Folkways
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John Hartford

Hamilton Ironworks
Hamilton Ironworks 2001 via Warner
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John's Final Release

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8:00 am