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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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Bonerama

Paranoid Android
Hot Like Fire 2017 via Basin Street Records
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week
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Muddy Gurdy

See My Jumper Hanging On The Line
Muddy Gurdy 2018 via VizzTone
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Composer: R.L Burnside - A Trio Of Frenchmen Drawing Inspiration From Traditional French Music And North Mississippi Hill Country Blues - Hurdy-Gurdy Being Used As A Second Guitar
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3 Hat Trio

In Our Hands
Lord Of The Desert 2018 via Okedokee Records
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Southern Utah - The Landscape, Its Traditions, And Contemporary Life Inspire The Band's Sound
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Eleanor McEvoy

The Minstrel Boy
The Thomas Moore Project 2018 via Moscodisc
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Irish Poet, Singer, Songwriter, And Entertainer - Responsible, With John Murray, For Burning Lord Byron's Memoirs After His Death
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Moshav

Jockey Full of Bourbon
Misplaced 2006 via Jmg / Jewish Music
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Undercover: Tom Waits
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The Band

Shadows And Light
The Last Waltz 1978 via Warner Bros.
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Special Guest: Joni Mitchell
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Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton

Layla
Play The Blues - Live From Jazz At Lincoln Center 2011 via Warner Bros.
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Joe Bennett And The Sparkletones

Black Slacks
1957-1959 2013 via Rockabilly
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Formed In 1956 At Cowpens High School In Spartanburg, SC - The Band Performed "Black Slacks," On American Bandstand In August Of 1957
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(REQUESTED)

Mahalia Jackson

Walk in Jerusalem
The Essential 2004 via na
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Referred to As the Queen Of Gospel; Played An Important Role During The Civil Rights Movement, Befriending Ralph Abernathy And Dr. Martin Luther King In The Mid-1950's

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Bob Skyles And His Sky Rockets

The Old Grey Goose
Western Swing Heaven Vol. 1 2013 via Monodone
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An Obscure Western Swing Band That Began As A Traveling Medicine Show In The 1930's

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Nat Cole Trio

Straighten Up And Fly Right (Alternate Take, 1943)
The Extraordinary 2014 via Capitol
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The Song Is Based On A Folk Tale That Cole's Father Had Used As A Theme For One Of His Sermons
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COMPILATIONS

Laidu Rokia Traore
Putumayo Presents_African Cafe 2018 via Putumayo

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The James Hunter Six

I Should've Spoke Up
Whatever It Takes 2018 via Daptone
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Harlem Parlour Music Club

Runaway Train (feat. Allison Cornell)
Salt of the Earth 2010 via Harlem Parlour Records
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The Mammals

Haircut Money
Evolver 2002 via Humble Abode
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Appearing: The Ark, Ann Arbor 5/4; wsg Seth Bernard
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Joe Ely

Mockingbird Hill
Satisfied At Last 2011 via Rack 'Em Records
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Celebrating Number 71 On the 9th - A Favorite Of the Clash, You Can Hear Joe Singing Backup On "Should I Stay Or Should I Go"

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Eilen Jewell

Santa Fe
Queen of the Minor Key 2011 via Signature Records
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Boise, ID

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Etta James

Pushover
Etta James Top Ten 1963 via Argo
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Etta James's Powerful And Earthy Voice Bridged The Gap Between Rhythm & Blues And Rock & Roll; A Recipient Of Six Grammy Awards, Seventeen Blues Music Awards And An Honoree Into The Rock And Roll, Blues And Grammy Halls Of Fame - A Gospel Music Prodigy Discovered At Age Fourteen By Johnny Otis, Miss James's Rise To Fame Was Rapid And Troubled, Chronicled In Her Autobiography Rage To Survive; A Read As Blistering As Her Singing. Jamesetta Mills Passed On In 2012 At The Age Of 73
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Etta James

I Prefer You
Call My Name 1967 via Ace
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January 28, 1938 California - January 12, 2012 California
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The Lester Young - Teddy Wilson Quartet

Prisoner Of Love
Pres & Teddy 1956 via Verve
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Jo Jones, Drums...Gene Ramey, Bass...Teddy Wilson, Piano...Lester Young, Tenor Sax

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Mandolin Orange

Hard Travelin
Blindfaller 2016 via Yep Roc
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Andrew Marlin & Emily Franz With A Freewheeling Ode To Life On The Road
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John Hartford

Dunbar
The Speed Of The Old Long Bow 1998 via Rounder
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John's Tribute To Legendary West Virginia Fiddler Blind Ed Haley
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Mike Barnett & Jesse McReynolds

Okeechobee Wind
Portraits In Fiddles 2017 via Compass
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The Grand Ole Opry's Oldest Living Member - Continues To Play Around Seventy Shows A Year At The Age Of 88
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Zoe Mulford

February Thunder
Small Brown Birds 2017 via Zoe Mulford
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Singer-Songwriter Calling Swarthmore, PA Home

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Steep Canyon Rangers

Shenandoah Valley
Out In The Open 2018 via Ramseur
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Appearing: DeVos Performance Hall, 5/20; Steve Martin & Martin Short Join The Band
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