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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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Bobby Broom

Ode To Billie Joe
Soul Fingers 2018 via MRI
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Ben Rice

Higher Ground
Wish The World Away 2018 via Independent
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Reinterpreting Stevie Wonder, 1973 (Innervisions)

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Robin Connell Jazz Trio Plus

On The Sunny Side Of The Street
A Beautiful Friendship 2013 via Independent
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Detroit, MI - Artprize 2016 Jazz Music Award Recipient, And The West Michigan Jazz Society's 2017 Musician Of The Year

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Joe Simon

The Chokin' Kind
The Chokin' Kind 1969 via Sony
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Composer: Harlan Howard, 1967

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Alejandro Escovedo

By Eleven
Gravity 1992 via Texas Music Group
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Austin, TX - Debut Release

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9:40 am
Lamplight Music Festival (click for more info)
Support for WYCE comes from Lamplight Music Festival:

The Lamp Light Music Festival is an artist run independent music festival in the Eastown neighborhood of Grand Rapids. 

Featuring performers from around the country and region, it boasts an eclectic mix of styles and genres from hip hop to psychedelia and folk.  

Now in its seventh year it will feature it's main stage at the historic Wealthy Theatre. The festival dates are November 2nd, 3rd and 4th. 

More information can be found at lamplightmusicfestival.com

Maria Muldaur

Georgia Grind [1938]
Don't You Feel My Leg (The Naughty Bawdy Blues Of Blue Lu Barker) 2018 via Last Music Company
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Maria's 41st Album Is Due In September, Paying Tribute To Songwriting Chanteuse Blu Lu Barker - Maria Appears Tonight At The Tip Top Deluxe, Here On GR's West Side

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(REQUESTED)

Darrell Scott

River Take Me
Live At The Station Inn 2017 via Full Light
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Online Stream Suggestion - Past Member Of Robert Plant's Band Of Joy

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9:20 am

Bobby Broom

Ode To Billie Joe
Soul Fingers 2018 via MRI
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Bobby Broom

Ode To Billie Joe
Soul Fingers 2018 via MRI
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Charlie Musselwhite

Early In The Morning [1929]
Stand Back! Here Comes Charlie Musselwhite's Southside Band 1967 via Vanguard
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Southside Chicago Bluesman Of The Highest Order

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The Blasters

Samson & Delilah
Hard Line 1985 via Warner Bros
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First Known Recording By Blind Willie Johnson, 1927; Reverend Gary Davis Covered It In 1960; Bob Weir Learned It From Davis And Sang Lead On The Song For The Dead's "Terrapin Station"

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Jim Kweskin & Meredith Axelrod

Oh By Jingo
Come On In 2016 via Jim Kweskin
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Composed As A Novelty Song In 1919, "Oh By Jingo" Became One Of The Biggest Hits Of The Post World War 1 Era

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Eric Lindell

Millie Kay
Revolution In Your Heart 2018 via Alligator Records
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Doc Watson & Bryan Sutton

Whiskey Before Breakfast
Not Too Far From The Tree 2006 via Sugar Hill
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9 O'Clock Doc: Grammy Award: Best Country Instrumental Performance, 2006

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Doc Watson

If You Ever Change Your Mind
Doc Watson Live In San Francisco 1964 2016 via Westmill
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9 O'Clock Doc: A Live Recording From Doc Not Released Until 2016; Doc Had Just Turned Forty-One

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9:00 am

Van-Anh Vanessa Vo

Go Hunting
Three-Mountain Pass 2013 via Innova
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Special Guest: Jim Nagakami

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Siegel Schwall Band

Down In The Bottom
The Siegel-Schwall Band 1966 via Vanguard
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On This Debut, The Siegel-Schwall Band Gives A Tip Of The Hat To Those Influencing Them; Putting a Nice Boogie On Howlin' Wolf's "Down In The bottom'

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(REQUESTED)

Eagles

Train Leaves Here This Morning
Eagles 1972 via Elektra
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Composers: Gene Clark And Bernie Leadon, Bernie On Lead Vocal

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Mandolin Orange

Time We Made Time
Tides Of A Teardrop 2018 via Yep Roc
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Street Date: February 1, 2019 - Appearing For Two Shows On Feburary 13th, An Early And A Late Night At The Ark, Ann Arbor

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8:40 am

John D. Twitty And Little Bill

Walking Blues
Rare 1930's Blues 1934-1937 1995 via Document
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January 7, 1921 ?? - March 28, 2001 Texas

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John D. Twitty

Camp Meeting In The Air
Rare 1930's Blues 1934-1937 1995 via Document
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Another Enigmatic Bluesman With Early Roots Traceable To Alabama, Migrating To Chicago In The Early 1930's - Hooked Up With Big Bill Broonzy And Tampa Red For The Legendary Leland Bluebird Sessions Conducted By Producer And Blues Connoisseur Lester Melrose - Only Eight Recordings Are Known to Exist Of Twitty, Sometimes Recording Under the Pseudonym Of Black Spider Dumpling. Leaving Music And Relocating To Texas After 1937, John D. Twitty Lived A Quiet Life Until Passing On In 2001.

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Harold Mabern Quintet

Waltzing Westward
Workin' & Wailin' 1969 via Prestige
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820 Jazz Presents: "Waltzing Westward" By the Harold Mabern Quintet, Five Blues-Soaked Bop Veterans; Skills Honed In Memphis, Tempered Through the Windy City And Arrival In New York City In 1959 - Virgil Jones, Trumpet...George Coleman, Tenor Sax...Buster Williams, Bass...Leo Morris, Drums...Harold Mabern, Piano

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8:20 am

Steve Earle

I Can Wait
Transcendental Blues 2000 via Artemis Records
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Steve Playing A 12-String Acoustic On The Song

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Stephanie Urbina Jones

Ring of Fire [Spanish Version]
Tularosa 2018 via Soundly Music
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San Antonio, TX - Written by Merle Kilgore & June Carter Cash, 1963

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Bill Emerson And Cliff Waldron

Spanish Grass [1968]
The Best Of Emerson And Waldron 2005 via Rebel
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Bill Emerson, Five-String Banjo Player And Founding Member Of The Country Gentlemen; Cliff Waldron, Flat-Picker And Founding Member Of Northern Virginia's Page Valley Boys; The Early Roots Of The Seldom Scene

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Dead Horses

Aint Got Time
Cartoon Moon 2016 via Independent
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Special Guest: Noam Pikelny

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Banjo Nikaru And The Western Scooches

A Hundred Miles
Get Us Out Of Fearland 2018 via On The Bol
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Generally Credited To Folk Revivalist Hedy West, And Related To The Older Folk Song "900 Miles," Itself Having Threads Leading To The Turn Of The Century Fiddle Tune, "Rueben's Train

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Colter Wall

Wild Bill Hickok
Songs Of The Plains 2018 via Young Mary/Thirty Tigers
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'YCE Artist Of The Day Tomorrow

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8:00 am