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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 Roots Music: Early Influences - Pioneering Legends - Roots Revivalists - Indigenous Cultures. Thanks For Joining Us!

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Shirazette Tinnin

Her Powerful Locs
Humility - Purity of My Soul 2014 via Hot Tone
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Billy Eckstine

Prisoner Of Love [1957]
If I Loved You 2014 via Capitol
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Highly-Influential Jazz And Pop Singer, And A Bandleader Of The Swing Era; Noted For His Rich, Resonant, Almost Operatic Bass-Baritone

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Buddy Guy & Junior Wells

Diggin' My Potatoes
Alone & Acoustic 1991 via Alligator Records
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Composer: Ernest Lawler (Little Son Joe), 1939 - Husband Of Memphis Minnie

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John Hiatt

All the Way to the River
The Eclipse Sessions 2018 via New West Records
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9:40 am

La Bottine Souriante

Le Gourmand
Appellation d'Origine Controlee 2011 via Borealis
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(REQUESTED)

Chris Stapleton

The Devil Named Music
Traveller 2015 via Mercury
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Lexington, KY - Double Appearance In Michigan One Weekend In Michigan; 8/2 At DTE Energy Music Theater And 8/3 At We Fest, Detroit Lakes

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Mavis Staples

Chance on Me
We Get By 2019 via Anti
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(REQUESTED)

Jimmy LaFave

Shelter From The Storm
Austin Skyline 1992 via Music Road
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Oklahoma Music Hall Of Fame Inductee, 2017

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9:20 am

Linda Ronstadt

Just One Look
Living In The USA 1978 via Asylum
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Staying True To The 1963 Mega-R&B Smash By Doris Troy - Linda, Soon Turning 73 In A Few Weeks

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Louis Prima, Keely Smith With Sam Butera And The Witnesses

Hey Boy! Hey Girl
Hey Boy! Hey Girl! 1959 via Capitol
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Music From The 1959 American Musical Starring Louis Prima And Keely Smith

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Dale Ann Bradley

Ripple
The Hard Way 2019 via Pinecastle
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American Beauty, 1970 (Grateful Dead)

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Mississippi Fred McDowell

I'm So Glad I Got Good Religion
Amazing Grace 1994 via Hightone
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Annie Mae McDowell, Vocals

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Earl Johnson

I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham
Earl Johnson, Vol. 1 1927 1997 via Document
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Georgia Born Old-Time Fiddler Inspired By The Great GiD Tanner

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Alice Gerrard & The Barnstormers

Wild Hog In The Woods
The Road To Agate Hill 2017 via Smithsonian Folkways
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The Legendary Alice Gerrard Turning 85 In a Few Weeks

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9:00 am
UICA - Breaching Margins (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts: 

UICA is a gallery, a movie theater, a shop, and a space for events. 

The galleries feature exhibitions of relevant, contemporary artworks; and the movie theater shows first-run foreign and independent films. 

UICA is presenting "Breaching the Margins" an exhibition of works by artists who examine ways in which marginalized groups navigate and work against social exclusion. 

This juried exhibiton includes work from 33 artists who approach the theme from various points of view, and offer dialogues regarding their rejection of marginalization. 

On view through August 18, 2019. Learn more at uica.org

5 Chinese Brothers

Stop Talking
Singer Songwriter Beggarman Thief 1992 via 1-800 Prime CD
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New York Based Quintet Of Roots Rockers

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Whitey Johnson

Soulshine
More Days Like This 2019 via Blue Corn
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Has Made His Living Making Music For Well Over Thirty Years, Yet Has Remained Relatively Unknown, Having Only Recently Recording His Debut Album.

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Jeffrey Foucault

Slow Talker
Salt As Wolves 2015 via Independent
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Appearing The Weekend Of 7/20 At The Hiawatha Music Festival, Marquette

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Sara Watkins

Thunder Road
Born To Uke 2019 via Equator Music
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The Album Is A Collective Of Musicians Putting The Ukulele To 1975's "Born To Run"

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8:40 am

Tommy Johnson & Ishman Bracey

Leavin' Town Blues
The Famous 1928 Tommy Johnson-Ishman Bracey Session 2014 via Document
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Highly-Influential Delta Bluesmen Tommy Johnson And Ishmon Bracey Were Two Of The Earliest Figures To Record Blues Material. Itinerant Musicians During The 1920's , The Two Performed Regularly Together On The Medicine Show Circuit In the Early 1930's. Johnson And Bracey Went Their Separate Ways, And Each Continued To Influence The Blues

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Tommy Johnson & Ishman Bracey

Four Day Blues -Take 1
The Famous 1928 Tommy Johnson-Ishman Bracey Session 2014 via Document
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Johnson: January 1896 Mississippi -November 1, 1956 Mississippi; Bracey: January 9, 1899 Mississippi - February 12, 1970 Mississippi

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Stanley Turrentine Sextet

Cotton Walk
Jubilee Shout (1962) 1986 via Blue Note
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820 Jazz- Kenny Burrell, Guitar...Sonny Clark, Piano...Butch Warren, Bass...Tommy Turrentine, Trumpet...Al Harewood, Drums...Stanley Turrentine, Tenor Saxophone - - - - - 820 Jazz Presents Jubilee Shout, A 1962 recording By The Stanley Turrentine Sextet. Recorded By rudy Van Gelder, The Album Sat On The shelves Of Blue Note Records For Twenty-Four Years, Being Released In 1986. Turrentine Often Recorded In A Quartet Configuration, Making this Sextet Session Somewhat Of a Rarity. Here's "Cotton Walk," On 820 Jazz

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8:20 am

Chuck Mead

Close to Home
Close to Home 2019 via Plowboy Records
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Nashville Honky Tonk Legend Adding Some Memphis Spice The New Album

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Buck Owens & The Buckaroos

Streets Of Bakersfield [1973]
All-Time greatest Hits 2010 via Saguaro
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Along With Merle Haggard, Pioneered What came to Be Called The Bakersfield Sound

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Sideline

Crash Course In The Blues
Crash Course In The Blues (Single) 2019 via Sideline
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A Sextet Of High Caliber Veteran Grassers From Central North Carolina Reworking Steve Wariner (1992)

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Joy Williams

Preacher's Daughter
Front Porch 2019 via Sensibility/Thirty Tigers
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Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives

El Fantasma Del Toro
Way Out West 2017 via Superlatone Records
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8:00 am
UICA - Breaching Margins (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts: 

UICA is a gallery, a movie theater, a shop, and a space for events. 

The galleries feature exhibitions of relevant, contemporary artworks; and the movie theater shows first-run foreign and independent films. 

UICA is presenting "Breaching the Margins" an exhibition of works by artists who examine ways in which marginalized groups navigate and work against social exclusion. 

This juried exhibiton includes work from 33 artists who approach the theme from various points of view, and offer dialogues regarding their rejection of marginalization. 

On view through August 18, 2019. Learn more at uica.org