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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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Charles Lloyd & The Marvels

Sombrero Sam
I Long to See You 2016 via Blue Note Records
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"When Music Is Tight It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Robert Randolph & The Family Band

I Still Belong to Jesus
We Walk This Road 2010 via Warner Bros.
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Grew Up In The House of God Church in Orange, New Jersey - Upholding A Long Gospel Music Tradition Called Sacred Steel

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Dick Curless

Freight Train Blues
Traveling Through 1995 via Rounder
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Bangor, ME - One Of The Most Versatile Singers In The History Of Country Music

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9:40 am

Southern Culture On The Skids

Fried Chicken and Gasoline (2018
Bootleggers Choice 2018 via Kudzu Records
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The Album Features All-New Recordings Of The Most Requested Songs From The Band's Long Out-Of-Print Major Releases - Southern Culture On The Skids Is The 'YCE Artist Of The Day On Friday

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(REQUESTED)

Pokey LaFarge

Shenandoah River
Middle Of Everywhere 2011 via Free Dirt Records
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With The South City Three

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Otis Taylor

Simple Mind
Recapturing The Banjo 2008 via Telarc
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Accompanied By Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Don Vappie And Cassie Taylor

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Flagship
Live At The Ryman 2018 via Southeastern
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Street Date: 10/19 - Recorded During The Group's Six Sold Out Nights At Nashville's Legendary Ryman Auditorium

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Billie Holiday

Lover Man [1945]
The Decca Singles Vol. 1: 1945-1949 2017 via Decca
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Written for Billie By Jimmy Davis And Roger Ramirez - Honors: inducted Into The Grammy Hall Of Fame In 1989

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9:20 am
GRPM - Queen (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from the Grand Rapids Public Museum: 

Experience the Chaffee Planetarium as never before with a brand new Light Show featuring the music of Queen! 

Recline as 10 of Queen's greatest hits including favorites like Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites the Dust, and You're My Best Friend are on display! 

This brand new Light Show will "rock you"! 

Visit G R P M DOT O R G for tickets and showtimes. 

Grand Rapids Public Museum. Be Curious.

Rootstand

Track 09
Rootabeggar 2012 via Rootstand
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Michigan Flavor! Rootstand's Roots Run Through Flint, Kalamazoo & Ann Arbor

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Frankie Trumbauer

Krazy Kat
Bix Beiderbecke, Vol. 1: Singin' The Blues 1927 via Sony
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With Bix Beiderbecke And Eddy Lang - One Of Leading Jazz Saxophonists During Jazz's Golden Era, Influencing The Sound Of Lester Young. Tram's Collaborations With Beiderbecke And Lang Produced Some Of The Finest And Most Innovative Jazz Records Of The Late 1920's

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Elmore James

Sunnyland
Shake Your Money Maker- The Best of the Fire Sessions 2001 via Buddha
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With the Broomdusters Recorded During A 1954 Recording In New Orleans

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Courtney Hartman & Taylor Ashton

Better
Been On Your Side 2018 via Free Dirt Records
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Doc & Merle Watson

Bright Sunny South
Down South 1984 via Flying Fish
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9 O'Clock Doc: A Song Usually Associated With The Civil War And The Confederacy, With Many Variants Having Been Collected And Recorded From All Parts Of The Eastern United States As Far North As The Catskills

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Doc Watson

Just a Friend
Songs From The Southern Mountains 1994 via Sugar Hill Records
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9 O'Clock Doc: Watson's Duet With His Mother Rosa Lee

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9:00 am

Rio Mira

Patacore
Marimba Del Pacifico 2018 via AYA Records
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A Collaboration Between Musicians From Neighboring Ecuador And Columbia

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Kathy Mattea

St. Teresa
Pretty Bird 2018 via Captain Potato/Thirty Tigers
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Tim O'Brien, Bouzouki & Mandolin

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John Hiatt

Robber's Highway
The Eclipse Sessions 2018 via New West Records
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James McMurtry

Long Island Sound
Complicated Game 2015 via Complicated Game
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Appearing At Blind Pig In Ann Arbor, 11/3

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8:40 am

Bayless Rose

Black Dog Blues [1930]
American Primitive, The Complete Recordings (Doxy Collection, Remastered) 2014 via Pubblico Dominio
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Bayless Rose, One Of The Country Blues' "Mystery Men", Had But One Day In The Studio, On June 7, 1930. An Accomplished Guitarist, Rose Recorded Four Songs, And Is Documented To Have Accompanied Clara Burston On Several Songs During The Same Recording Session. No Known Photograph Is Known To Exist Of Rose Or Any Record Of His Life After The Recording Session.

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Bayless Rose

Frisco Blues [1930]
Ragtime Blues Guitar 1927-1930 2013 via Document
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May 4, 1890 Kentucky - ?/??/???? Kentucky

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Thelonius Monk And Sonny Rollins

Friday The Thirteenth
Thelonious Monk And Sonny Rollins 1954 via Prestige
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Julius Watkins, French Horn...Percy Heath, Bass...Willie Jones, Drums...Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone...Thelonious Monk, Piano

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8:20 am
GRPM - Queen (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from the Grand Rapids Public Museum: 

Experience the Chaffee Planetarium as never before with a brand new Light Show featuring the music of Queen! 

Recline as 10 of Queen's greatest hits including favorites like Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites the Dust, and You're My Best Friend are on display! 

This brand new Light Show will "rock you"! 

Visit G R P M DOT O R G for tickets and showtimes. 

Grand Rapids Public Museum. Be Curious.

Amy Ray

Sparrow's Boogie
Holler 2018 via Daemon/Compass
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Alison Brown, Banjo

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Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs

Don't Get Above Your Raising [1951]
The Best Of Flatt And Scruggs 2013 via Columbia
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With The Foggy Mountain Boys

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Loretta Lynn

Ain't No Time to Go
Wouldn't It Be Great 2018 via SONY LEGACY
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Forty-First Album Produced By Loretta's Daughter Patsy And John Carter Cash

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Pharis & Jason Romero

Only Gold
A Passing Glimpse 2011 via Lula Records
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Rick Thum

Dry And Dusty
Down The Old Dirt Road 2011 via RT
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Hammered Dulcimer Originated In the Middle East Around 900 A.D.

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The Slocan Ramblers

Long Chain Charlie And Moundsvill
Queen City Jubilee 2018 via Independent

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