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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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Don Spezia

Blue View Reprise
Blue View 2018 via Independent
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Cairn to Cairn

Beautiful Woman
Hands Behind My Back 2012 via Independent

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Amy Helm And The Wood Brothers

Christmas Must Be Tonight
Spotify Singles - Christmas 2018 via Amy Helm Entertainment/Honey Jar
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Amy And The Brothers Wood Reinterpreting The Band's Left-Field Christmas Carol Included On Their Final Studio Album, "Islands", (1977) - Robertson Composing Much Of The Lyric Directly From The King James Version - "An Unjustly Overlooked Gem From The Greatest Performing Rock Unit The World Has Ever Produced." Robb M

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Henry Townsend And Yank Rachell

Turned On And Off
Mule (Expanded Version) 1980 via Omnivore
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Two Elder Statesmen Of The Blues - Townsend Was One Of The Only Artists Known To Have Recorded In Nine Consecutive Decades, Doing So First In 1929. Townsend And Longtime Collaborator Yank Rachell Were The Only Active Blues Artists Whose Careers Had Started In The 1920's

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Wee Bea Booze

See See Rider [1942]
Female Blues-The Remaining Titles Vol. 2 (1938-1949) 1997 via Document
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R&B And Jazz Singer Of The 1940's Reworking Ma Rainey And The Georgia Jazz Band Classic, 1925 (Louis Armstrong On Cornet)

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The Intersection - Sunsquabi (click for more info)

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Both shows begin at 8PM and feature opening acts: 

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Tickets are available now at section live dot com or at the box office located on 133 Grandville Ave SW

*Let's give our listeners a chance to WIN a pair of tickets now by calling (616) 742-9923

Oscar Wright

Jake Gillie
Clawhammer Banjo 2004 via County
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Vintage Field Recording

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Dave Alvin And The Guilty Ones

Boss Of The Blues
Eleven Eleven (Expanded) 2011 via Hightone
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Appearing As A Member Of The Flesh Eaters 3/11 At The Pyramid Scheme - Other Members Include Chris D., John Doe, D.J. Bonebrake, Steve Berlin And John Bateman

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(REQUESTED)

Sonny Landreth

Sunrise
Sunrise 2012 via Landreth Music
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Breaux Bridge, LA - Appearance: 3/7 At The Ark In Ann Arbor

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9:20 am
GR LIVE (click for more info)

Join WYCE today at noon in HOME at The Bob for a remote broadcast of GR Live! 

This week's live musical guests include WISP and Mystic Dub 

Stop into Home at The Bob to catch the show in person at 20 Monroe Ave NW 

and you could WIN tickets to Be Nice: A Mental Health Benefit featuring Lady Ace Boogie and EPCYA at The Pyramid Scheme 

- or stream on your lunch break at WYCE dot ORG

Lionel Hampton

Lavender Coffin [1949]
Jukebox Hits 1943-1950 2003 via Acrobat Music
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Highly Honored Jazz Vibraphonist And Bandleader - Worked With All The Great Ones - Buried Adjacent To Mile Davis And Duke Ellington At Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx

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Acoustic Blues Drifter

Don't You Lie To Me
Drink That... 2014 via Acoustic Blues Drifter
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Blues Revivalist Duo From Switzerland

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David Myles

Santa Never Brings Me A Banjo
It's Christmas 2015 via Fontana North
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Halifax, Nova Scotia - Myles Released His First Children's Book A Couple Of Months Ago Based On His Song 'Santa Never Brings Me a Banjo', With Illustration By Animator Murray Bain

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10 String Symphony

Ballad Of Bruno
Generation Frustation 2018 via 10 String Symphony
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Rachel Baiman & Christian Sedelmyer - Inspired By A Children's Cartoon History, Telling The Story Of A Philosopher Named Bruno Who Had Some Very Advanced And Controversial Ideas For The Times; An Ancient Hero Of Critical Thinking And Free Speech

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Malou Beauvoir

Papa Loko
Spiritwalker 2018 via Panthera Music Intl
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9:00 am

Los Goutos

Tequila Set the House On Fire
Mighty 2018 via Los Goutos
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Boston-Based Septet Of Roots Rockers Lighting A Ska Beat Blaze To The Mariachi Horn Flavorings

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Tami Neilson

Cry over You
DYNAMITE! 2016 via Neilson Records
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Online Stream Suggestion

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Tom Waits

Gun Street Girl
Rain Dogs 1985 via Island
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Turning Sixty-Nine On December 7th

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The Black Lillies

River Rolls
Stranger To Me 2018 via Attack Monkey
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Knoxville, TN - The Fifth Release Builds Upon Their Foundation Of Strong Roots Rock And Redefines The Groups Sound

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Kim Richey

Turn Me
Chinese Boxes 2007 via Vanguard Records
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Appearances: 20 Front Street In Lake Orion On 3/29 And The Acorn Theater In Three Oaks On 3/30

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8:40 am
Promo - Online Playlist (click for more info)

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Lil Johnson

That Bonus Done Gone Thru [1936]
Blues roots, Vol. 9 2018 via MilesStones
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Blues Spotlight: Origins And Early Life Are Not Known. First Recording In 1929 With Pianists Montana Taylor And Charles Avery On Five Songs, Miss Johnson Would Not Return To The Studio For Another Six Years, Changing Up A Bit And Recording Her More Risque Songs, Forming A Partnership With Ragtime-Influenced Pianist Black Bob. Lil Johnson Sang In A Vigorous And Sometimes Abrasive Manner; Hired The Best Musicians Of The Era, And Leaving Behind A Catalog Of Blues Recordings - Many Categorized As Blues Classics. There Is No Record Of What Became Of Miss Johnson After 1937

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Lil Johnson

I Lost My Baby [1935]
Press My Button 2015 via Document
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Grant Green

My Favorite Things
Matador 1964 via Blue Note
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'820' Jazz: Bob Cranshaw, Bass...Elvin Jones, Drums...McCoy Tyner, Piano...Grant Green, Guitar

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8:20 am
GR LIVE (click for more info)

Join WYCE today at noon in HOME at The Bob for a remote broadcast of GR Live! 

This week's live musical guests include WISP and Mystic Dub 

Stop into Home at The Bob to catch the show in person at 20 Monroe Ave NW 

and you could WIN tickets to Be Nice: A Mental Health Benefit featuring Lady Ace Boogie and EPCYA at The Pyramid Scheme 

- or stream on your lunch break at WYCE dot ORG

Riders In The Sky

The Trail Tip Song
Always Drink Upstream From The Herd 1995 via Rounder / Umgd
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Good Advice When You Find Yourself On The Trail

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COMPILATIONS

The Last Old Shovel
O Sister! A Women's Bluegrass Collection 2001 via Rounder / Pgd
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Vocals: Phyllis Boyens; Vintage Bluegrass Gospel

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Calabogie Road

Angel Bounce
On The Gospel Trail 2018 via Independent
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Veterans Of Michigan's Bluegrass Scene Dating Back to 1983

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the Appalucians

Forty Seven Main
The Appalucians 2018 via The Appalucians
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Debut Album - Playing Music From the Mountains Of Western North Carolina

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Aly Bain And Jerry Douglas Ft. Ricky Scaggs

My Father's Son
Transatlantic Sessions - Series 2, Vol. One 2013 via Whirlie
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A Collective Title For A Series Of Musical Productions Comprising Of Collaborative Live Performances By Various Leading Folk, Bluegrass And Country Musicians From Both Sides Of The North Atlantic Under The Musical Direction Of Aly Bain And Jerry Douglas. Six Series Albums Have Been Released

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Alison Krauss & Union Station

Miles to Go
Paper Airplane 2011 via Rounder
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At 47, Alison Has Won Twenty-Seven Grammys; Released Her First Solo Album At Fourteen, Leading To Union Station Inviting Her To Join The Band With Which She Still Performs

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8:00 am