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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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Corky Siegel

Allegro (Opus 8)
Chamber Blues 1994 via Alligator Records
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Return Next Week

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Lillian Boutte

Barefootin'
The Jazz Book 1994 via ALF
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Undercover: Wilson Pickett

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The Wild Honey Collective

Groovy
Volume 1 2021 via Independent
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Mid-Michigan Music Project Formed Last Summer Amid The Covid-19 Pandemic - Playing Songs On A Back Porch In Rural Michigan

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9:40 am

Escondido

Cold October
The Ghost of Escondido 2013 via 1-2-3-4-GO!
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Nashville, TN 2011 - Debut Album For Jessica Maros And Tyler James - You May Know Tyler As The Keyboardist For Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

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Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road

Final Days
Roots 2020 via Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road
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Deep Gap, NC - The Eighteen-Year Old Leading The North Carolina Pickers Drawing Heavy Inspiration From Doc Watson; Rocking Traditional Bluegrass Standards, And Writing Original Material With Roots In The Fertile Grounds Of Bluegrass, Old-Time, And Americana

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Buddy Rich Orchestra

9:20 Special
This One's For Basie 1956 via Norgran
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Buddy's Tribute To The Great Kansas City Bandleader

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Johnny Cash

Bird On A Wire (Live)
Unearthed 2003 via American Recordings
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The Man In Black Reworking Leonard Cohen With Full Orchestra

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9:20 am

Cleo Laine

Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'
Jazz 1991 via RCA
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93 Year Old Jazz Singer Extraordinaire

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(REQUESTED)

Bessie Smith

Aggravatin' Papa
The Complete Recordings, Vol. 1 [Columbia-Legacy] Disc 1 1991 via Columbia
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Recorded 1922 - Began Touring And Performed In A Group That Included Ma Rainey - Regarded As One Of The Greatest Singers Of Her Era

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The Balfa Brothers

Family Waltz
The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music, Vols. 1-2 1965 via Swallow Records
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Highly-Influential Part Of Pure American Music; The Quintet's Musical Roots Traced From France to The Settlement In Acadia, And The Migration To South-Central Louisiana

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Mhlangidinwa Ngikhathele
Gospel Hits 2008 via Warner
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Ladysmith KwaZulu-Natal. South Africa 1960

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9:00 am
WYCE @ Wealthy Theatre : The Bootstrap Boys (click for more info)

WYCE @ Wealthy Theatre is back!

Community Media Center's virtual concert series is live from Wealthy Theatre, programmed by WYCE, streamed online, and on GRTV..

Coming up tonight at 6pm it's music from The Bootstrap Boys

More information is available at wyce dot org 

WYCE at Wealthy Theatre featuring The Bootstrap Boys tonight at 6pm, sponsored by Vertigo Music! 


Sugar Ray & the Bluetones

Walk Me Home
Too Far From The Bar 2020 via Severn
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Latest Entry Into The 'YCE Blues Alley

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The Temptations

Since I Lost My Baby
Temptin' Temptations 1965 via Motown
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Motown Magic! David Ruffin And Melvin Franklin, Lead Vocals

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Joe Jencks

Wheelbarrow Johnny
Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers 2017 via Independent
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Special Guest: Harpeth Rising Providing Strings - 20-Year Veteran Of The International Folk Circuit Based In Chicago

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Tret Fure

My First Guitar
Stone By Stone 2020 via Tret Fure
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Career Spanning Five Decades Beginning At The Age Of 16, Singing In Coffeehouses And Campuses In the Midwest

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8:40 am

Jack Kelly & His Memphis Jug Band

Cheatin' Woman [1933]
Completed Recorded Works, 1933-1939 1992 via RST
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Memphis Boasted A Preponderance Of Jug Bands And When Record Companies Finally Got Around To Recording The Genre There Were At Least Six Formally Organised Bands Working In The City. Jack Kelly's South Memphis Jug Band Had A Fairly Flourishing Recording Career Beginning In 1933 Playing A Repertoire Favoring Blues Based Material, An Uninhibited Music Of The Country Juke Joint And Southern Township Hall, Adding New Dimensions To Fairly Standard Themes. Members Of The Jug Band Went Their Separate Ways After 1939.

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Jack Kelly & His Memphis Jug Band

Joe Louis Special [1939]
Jack Kelly & His Memphis Jug Band 1990 via Document
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One Of The Four Pioneering Jug Bands In Memphis During The 1930's

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Duke Pearson Sextet

Amanda
Wahoo 1965 via Blue Note
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'820' Jazz Presents: Bob Cranshaw, Bass...James Spaulding, Alto Saxophone...Mickey Roker, Drums...Donald Byrd, Trumpet...Joe Henderson, Tenor Saxophone...Duke Pearson, Piano - - - - - - - Major Part In Shaping The Blue Note Label's Hard Bop Direction In The 1960's

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8:20 am
Ferris Coffee (click for more info)

Coffee at WYCE is provided by Ferris Coffee - a local roaster with two cafe locations in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

Ferris is a family owned and operated company with a mission to build relationships through specialty coffee and nuts. 

More information about their coffee and the people behind is available at ferriscoffee.com

The Bootstrap Boys

Just Like That
Country Songs for Sale 2015 via Independent
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In The Spotlight From The WYCE Virtual Concert Series Live From Wealthy Theater Tonight At 6

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Tom Paley's Old-Time Moonshine Revue

Shove That Pig's Foot A Little Farther In The Fire/Prettiest Girl In The Country
Roll On, Roll On 2012 via Folkways
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Along With Mike Seeger And John Cohen, Paley Co-Founded the Highly-Influential New Lost City Ramblers In 1958

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Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys

Old Country Church
Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys 1971-1973 2005 via Rebel
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Vintage Pick This Morning

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Dirk Powell

Olivia
When I Wait For You 2020 via Compass
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Latest Release From Dirk

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Tara Nevins

Troubles
Mule To Ride 1999 via Sugarhill [Country]
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First Solo Album In Between Recording And Touring Dates With Donna The Buffalo

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Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin

Sittin' on Top of the World
Blue Lightning 1991 via Rounder Select
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Composed In 1930 By Walter Vinson And Lonnie Chatmon, The Core Members Of The Mississippi Sheiks - The Song Inducted Into The Grammy Hall Of Fame In 2008

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8:00 am
WYCE @ Wealthy Theatre : The Bootstrap Boys (click for more info)

WYCE @ Wealthy Theatre is back!

Community Media Center's virtual concert series is live from Wealthy Theatre, programmed by WYCE, streamed online, and on GRTV..

Coming up tonight at 6pm it's music from The Bootstrap Boys

More information is available at wyce dot org 

WYCE at Wealthy Theatre featuring The Bootstrap Boys tonight at 6pm, sponsored by Vertigo Music!