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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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Bombino

Adounia Idagh
Deran 2018 via Partisan
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week
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Cyril Neville

Second Line Soca
Endangered Species_The Essential Recordings 2018 via World Order
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Legendary New Orleans Percussionist: The Neville Brothers, The Meters
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Rory Block

I'm Down in the Dumps
A Woman's Soul_ A Tribute To Bessie Smith 2018 via Stony Plain
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Bessie Smith, 1933 - Block Is One Of The World's Most Important Preservers Of The Roots Of American Music - A National Treasure - An Uncompromising Blues Artist

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9:40 am
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Paul Cauthen

Tumbleweed
Have Mercy [EP] 2018 via Lightning Rod
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The Texas Troubadour Is Back With A Second Album Of Stunning Material And Performances Fortified By Contributions From The Texas Gentlemen, A 21st Century Wrecking Crew Of All-Star Musicians

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Ike & Tina Turner

Ode To Billie Joe
The Hits Collection 2012 via BMG
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Ike & Tina With A High Octane Reading Of Bobbie Gentry's Classic (1967) - Bobbie Is Celebrating Number 73 In a Few Days

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Roomful Of Blues

Lipstick, Powder and Paint
That's Right 2003 via Alligator Records
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Reworking Big Joe Turner
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Abbie Gardner

Honey On My Grave
Honey On My Grave 2006 via Abbie Gardner
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Founding Member Of Red Molly

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Appalatin

Where The River Flows
Appalatin 2011 via Appalatin
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The Name Of The Band Is Derived From a Chance Meeting Of Kentucky-Raised Musicians And Masterful Latin Eimgres From Central America, Organically Uniting Appalachian Folk And High-Energy Latin Music
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9:20 am
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Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley

One Way Out
The Country Blues 2016 via Compass
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Sonny Boy Williamson ll Wrote The Song During His Time With Elmore James
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The Allegheny Ramblers

Mountain Dew
Vol. 1 2014 via The Allegheny Ramblers
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Glenville, WV - A Few Wandering Hillbillies Just Lookin' To Play Some Tunes For A Warm Meal And A Few Bucks For A New Set Of Strings
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The Chieftains

Rachamid a Bhean Bheag-Ford Econoline
Irish Evening - Live At The Grand Opera House 1992 via RCA
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Special Guests: Nanci Griffith & Roger Daltrey
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9:00 am
Day Sponsor: Wheeler Upham (click for more info)

Today's WYCE business day sponsor is Wheeler Upham ["upum"], a Grand Rapids law firm that is celebrating its 135th year of providing a wide variety of legal services to individuals and businesses in our community for over 130 years. 

Wheeler Upham's office is located on the plaza level of the Calder Plaza Building, 250 Monroe Ave NW, Suite 100, in downtown Grand Rapids.

Convenient client parking is available in the Fifth Third Bank parking lot adjacent to the Ottawa Ave side of the building. 

More information about Wheeler Upham and its attorneys - and the work they do - can be found at "W U Attorneys dot com" or by calling 616-459-7100

Maria McKee

Let Your Light Shine On Me
God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson 2016 via Alligator
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First Recorded By The Wiseman Quartet In 1923, Five Years Later By Old-Time Country Musician Ernest Phillips And Perhaps The Most Definitive Rendering By Blind Willie Johnson In 1929
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Rodney Crowell

Earthbound
Acoustic Classics 2018 via Crowell Music
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On This Album Rodney Is Revisiting A Few Of His Classics Acoustically
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Phil Ochs

Joe Hill
Tape From California 1968 via A&M
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One Of The Great Protest Singer/Songwriters - A Distinctive Voice During The 1960's Counterculture Era - A Lightning Rod For Organized Labor
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Belle Of The Fall

This Time
Earthbound 2016 via Belle Of The Fall
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Tracy Walton And Julia Autumn Ford, Husband/Wife Roots Duo From Connecticut

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8:40 am
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Charlie Segar

Key To The Highway [1940]
Southern Hospitality 2016 via Vocalian
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?/?/1900 Florida - December 10, 1957 Illinois
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Dexter Gordon

Society Red
Doin' Allright 1961 via Blue Note
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George Tucker, Bass...Horace Parlan, Piano...Freddie Hubbard, Trumpet...Al Harewood, Drums...Dexter Gordon, Tenor Saxophone
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8:20 am
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Chris Smither

Maybellene
Call Me Lucky 2018 via Signature
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Reworking Chuck Berry
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David Davis And The Warrior River Boys

Ramblin' Blues
Didn't He Ramble: The Songs Of Charlie Poole 2018 via Warrior Records
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A Collection Of Songs Recorded During The 1920's By the Legendary Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
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Wade Mainer

Worried Man Blues [1935]
First Time In Stereo 1971 via Document
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With The Sons Of The Mountaineers - Innovator Of The Two-Finger Banjo Fingerpicking Style - Mainer Is Credited With Bridging The Gap Between Old-Time Mountain Music And Bluegrass

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Kieran Kane And Rayna Gellert

Miles
The Ledges 2018 via Dead Reckoning
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Hayes Carll

Beaumont
Trouble In Mind 2008 via Lost Highway
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Hayes' third Release
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I Draw Slow

Hesitation Waltz
Redhills 2012 via Pinecastle
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Dublin Based Roots Band
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8:00 am
Day Sponsor: Wheeler Upham (click for more info)

Today's WYCE business day sponsor is Wheeler Upham ["upum"], a Grand Rapids law firm that is celebrating its 135th year of providing a wide variety of legal services to individuals and businesses in our community for over 130 years. 

Wheeler Upham's office is located on the plaza level of the Calder Plaza Building, 250 Monroe Ave NW, Suite 100, in downtown Grand Rapids.

Convenient client parking is available in the Fifth Third Bank parking lot adjacent to the Ottawa Ave side of the building. 

More information about Wheeler Upham and its attorneys - and the work they do - can be found at "W U Attorneys dot com" or by calling 616-459-7100