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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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Tony Rice Unit

Common Ground
Backwaters 1983 via Rounder
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week (YT)
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Rick Danko

Let the Four Winds Blow
Times Like these 2000 via Breeze Hill
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Composers: Dave Barthlomew & Antoine "Fats" Domino - Danko's Final Album, Postumously Released - Rick Passed On 12/10/1999, A Few Days After Playing A Gig In Ann Arbor

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Sera Cahoone

Ladybug
From Where I Started 2017 via Independent
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3 Hat Trio

Pilgrim
Lord Of The Desert 2018 via Okedokee Records
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First Time Spin On 'YCE
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Lightnin' Hopkins

Happy Blues For John Glenn [19962]
The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings 1991 via Concord
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Recorded February 20, 1962 - The John Glenn Came Back to Earth, The First To Orbit The Earth Three Times
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9:40 am
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Nora And Delle

Keep A Knockin' (But You Can't Come In)
Jazzin' The Blues Vol. 3 (1937-1941) 1997 via Document
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Liz Carroll

The Hare's Lament-Pat Mahon's Jig
Double Play 2009 via Compass Records
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With John Doyle
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Kim Richey

Whistle on Occasion
Edgeland 2018 via Yep Roc
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With Chuck Prophet
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(REQUESTED)

Tony Joe White

Rainy Night In Georgia
Continued 1969 via White
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Composer: Tony Joe White, 1967 - The Images And Memories Of Growing Up In Louisiana Were The Song's Inspiration; Writing It In Marietta, GA, Living With His Sister Just After High School And Driving A Truck For the Georgia Highway Department After a Night Of Heavy Rains
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9:20 am
Concerts Under The Stars - Jes Kramer (click for more info)

Concerts Under the Stars at the Grand Rapids Public Museum's Chaffee Planetarium is a concert series that combines the wonder of the cosmos and the wonder of music.

The series continues on Thursday, March 1st at 7:30pm with live musician Jes Kramer, a one woman band from right here in Grand Rapids, paired with a live light show on the full dome, with 4K visuals and state-of-the-art surround sound.

A limited number of tickets for Jes Kramer on Thursday, March 1st at Concerts Under The Stars at the Chaffee Planetarium are available online at  G R P M dot ORG.

Becky Buller

Written In Back Of The Book
Crepe Paper Heart 2018 via Dark Shadow
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Appearing: Milan Bluegrass Festival 8/3
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Tommy Jarrell

Drunken Hiccups
The Legacy Of Tommy Jarrell, Vol. 1: Sail Away Ladies 1999 via Smithsonian
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Legendary Old-Time Fiddler From Mount Airy, NC - The Tommy Jarrell Celebration Is Held Annually In Mount Airy
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Van Morrison

Goin' To Chicago
Roll With The Punches 2017 via Exile
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Undercover: Count Basie & Jimmy Rushing, 1941
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9:00 am
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John Hiatt

Fly Back Home
Beneath This Gruff Exterior 2003 via New West Records
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With The Goners
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Victor Wainwright

I'll Start Tomorrow
Victor Wainwright & The Train 2018 via Ruf
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New Blues Into The 'YCE Blues Alley
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Rodney Crowell

Forty Miles from Nowhere
Close Ties 2017 via New West
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Appearing: The Ark 4/15 Ann Arbor
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Sarah Jarosz

Kathy' Song
Live At the Troubadour 2013 via Sugar Hill
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Composer: Paul Simon - Keep it Tuned Here On 'YCE To Here New Music From Sarah, Aoife O'Donovan & Sara Watkins As The Acoustic Trio "I'm With Her"
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8:40 am
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Mercy Dee Walton

Oh Oh Please
Masterly Texas Blues: 1949-1955 2009 via Spire
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Born In Waco Texas, Mercy Dee Walton Took The Sunset Route To Play His Piano In California In The Early 1940's, Signing To A Small Label And Recording His "One Room Country Shack," Now Considered A Blues Standard. Equally At Home Singing Slow Blues Ballads, Jump-Blues Or Romping Boogie-Woogie, Mercy Dee Adapted Very Well To The Arrival Of Rock & Roll In The Mid-50's.A Comeback In 1961 Was Short-Lived - He Passed On A Year Later At The Age Of 47
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Mercy Dee Walton

Lonesome Cabin Blues
Masterly Texas Blues: 1949-1955 2009 via Spire
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August 3, 1915 Texas - December 2, 1962 California
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Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Dizzy Gillespie

After Hours
Sonny Side Up 1957 via Verve
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Ray Bryant, Piano...Charlie Persip, Drums, Tommy Bryant, Double Bass, Sonny Rollins, Tenor Sax...Sonny Stitt, Tenor Sax...Dizzy Gillespie, Trumpet

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8:20 am
Concerts Under The Stars - Jes Kramer (click for more info)

Concerts Under the Stars at the Grand Rapids Public Museum's Chaffee Planetarium is a concert series that combines the wonder of the cosmos and the wonder of music.

The series continues on Thursday, March 1st at 7:30pm with live musician Jes Kramer, a one woman band from right here in Grand Rapids, paired with a live light show on the full dome, with 4K visuals and state-of-the-art surround sound.

A limited number of tickets for Jes Kramer on Thursday, March 1st at Concerts Under The Stars at the Chaffee Planetarium are available online at  G R P M dot ORG.

Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel

Northern Lights
Things To Come 1999 via Sghlow
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Producer: Lloyd Maines - Chicago Based Quintet Naming The Band After An Old Western Novel By Harry Sinclair Drago
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Joel Patterson

Blue Steel Serenade
Handful Of Strings 2013 via Joel Patterson
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A Member Of Several Bands In And Chicago Including The Modern Sounds, The Western Elstons And Devil In A Woodpile
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Elise LeGrow

You Never Can Tell
Playing Chess 2018 via BMG
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Undercover: Chuck Berry
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Kieran Kane And Rayna Gellert

I Wanna See Something New
The Ledges 2018 via Dead Reckoning
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Recorded During The Summer of '017 In Kane's Adirondack Cabin
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coon creek girls

Banjo Pickin' Girl [1938]
Old Time Mountain Banjo, Various Artists 2005 via county
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Appalachian String Band With Its' Roots Dating To The Mid 1930's; Performed At The White House Along With Bascom Lunsford's Square Dancers For King George VI and Queen Elizabeth At the Request Of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Verlon Thompson

Big Bad John
Works 2011 via Victor Tango
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Singer/Songwriter From Binger, OK; Longtime Producer For The Late Guy Clark
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