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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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Wise-Magraw

Jade
How the Light Gets In 2010 via Red House Records
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose" Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Session Americana with Jefferson Hamer

Big Mill In Bogalusa
Great Shakes 2016 via Ind
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Online Suggestion - Thanks For Tuning In

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Lightnin' Hopkins And Sonny Terry

Take A Trip With Me
Last Night Blues 1961 via Bluesville
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Two Blues Masters In The Prime Of Their Boogie; Engineered By Rudy Van Gelder

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9:40 am

Cowboy Junkies

Southern Rain
Black Eyed Man 1992 via RCA
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Fourth Studio Album Released Twenty-Eight Years Ago, Continues The Band's Evolution From A Spare Country Blues Style To A More Country Rock Style Edge

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Andrew Alli

Easy Going Man
Hard Workin' Man 2020 via EllerSoul
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Inspired To Play By Watching A Busker On the Streets Of Richmond, VA

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Del Shannon

Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow The Sun)
One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty-One Seconds With Del Shannon 1965 via Mole Hole
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Born In GR, Raised In Coopersville, MI - Fourteen Weeks At The Top Of The Charts In The USA, And Top Twenty On Six Other Charts Around The World - Inductee To Both Rock And Roll Hall of Fame And Michigan Rock And Roll Legends Hall Of Fame - Rumored He Would Join The Traveling Wilbury's Following The Death Of Roy Orbison, Shannon Took His Own Life 1990

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Sammy Price And The Blues Singers

Go Down Moses
Sammy Price And The Blues Singers Vol. 1, 1938-1941 2001 via Document
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House Pianist For Decca Records, With A Highly Successful Solo Career Featuring A Stable Of The Era's Top Influential Female Singers

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Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band

Harmony Two
Just Like Moby Dick 2020 via Paradise Of Bachelors
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Iconic Texas Songwriter Latest Album Produced By Charlie Sexton - Shannon McNally, Vocals

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9:20 am

Lovie Lee

I Dare You
Mississippi Blues Men 2104 via Alligator
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Meridian, MS - He And Carey Bell Played With The Swing Cats Before Moving to Chicago In 1956, And Became Well-Known For His Piano Chops Around Chicago; Joined The Muddy Waters' Band In 1979 Replacing Pinetop Perkins, Staying With The Band Til Muddy's Death In 1983

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Oliver Jones & Hank Jones

Makin' Whoopee
Pleased to Meet You 2009 via Justin Time Records
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Canadian Pianist Oliver Jones Joining The National Endowment For The Arts Jazz Masters Recipient, The Great Hank Jones On A Vintage 1928 Recording First Made Popular By Broadway Performer, Comedian And Dancer Eddie Kantor

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Afrocubism

Jarabi [Passion]
Afrocubism 2010 via Nonesuch
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Cross-Cultural Collaboration By Various Musicians From Mali And Cuba; A True Musical Meeting Of Talent Between The Two Cultures

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King David's Jug Band

What's That Taste Like Gravy
Rough Guide To Jug Band Blues 2017 via World Music
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Cincinnati, OH - One Of The Six Known Recordings From One Session On December 11, 1930

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9:00 am

Indigo Swing

Flip, Flop And Fly
Indigo Swing 1998 via Cliffdive Records
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Retro-Swing Sextet Out Of San Francisco

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Snakefarm

Banks Of The Ohio
Songs From My Funeral 1998 via RCA
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European Duo With An Very Interesting Reinterpretation On The Nineteenth-Century Murder Ballad

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Who Hit John

Angie (& The Hambone)
Great Recession Blues 2011 via Hey Burner! Records
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27 Strings And Five Voices The Likes Of Which Could Scrub A Washboard Clean Performing, Jamming And Busking Around Southwest Michigan Since 2006.

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Laura Love

Saskatchewan (Juneteenth)
Negrass 2007 via Laura Love Music
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Tim O'Brien Lending His Immense Talents To Laura's Tenth Release

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8:40 am
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Archie L. Edwards

The Road Is Rough And Rocky
Classic Appalachian Blues From Smithsonian Folkways 2010 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Archie Edwards Had A Sporadic Career Spanning Decades Working With John Jackson, Skip James And Mississippi John Hurt; Leaving Music To Own A Barbershop In the Late 1950's Attracting Blues Musicians Who In Turn Helped To Restart is Long Dormant Career. Playing What He Called 'East Virginia Blues', Charlie Musselwhite Took Him To Europe In 1987, Scoring A Recording Contract With Mapleshade Records. Archie Edwards Passed On 1n 1998.

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Archie L. Edwards

Duffle Bag Blues
Living Country Blues USA, Vol. 6: The Road Is Rough & Rocky 1982 via Piedmont Blues
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September 4, 1918 VA - June 18, 1998 MD

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Claude 'Fiddler' Williams

I'm Just a Lucky So and So
Swingin' The Blues 2000 via Bullseye Blues
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Keter Betts, Bass...Henry Butler, Piano...Joe Cohn, Drums...Claude Williams, Fiddle

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8:20 am

Tim O'Brien

Diggin' My Potatoes
Tim O'Brien Band 2019 via Howdy Skies Records
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Putting The 'Pick' To Minnie Lawlers, aka Memphis Minnie

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The Sweet Water Warblers

Hallelujah
The Dream That Hold This Child 2020 via Sweet Water Warblers
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Featuring The Extraordinary Talents Of Lindsay Lou, May Erlewine And Rachael Davis

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Leo Kottke

Watermelon
6 & 12 String Guitar 1969 via Takoma
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Athens, GA - Influenced Heavily By Mississippi John Hurt

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Luther Dickinson

Horseshoe
Blues & Ballads (A Folksingers Songbook) Volumes I & II 2016 via New West
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The Album Celebrates the American Oral Tradition Of Blues And Folk Songs Passed Down Through Generations.

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Chatham County Line

Nothing
Strange Fascination 2020 via Yep Roc
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North Carolina Roots Trio

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