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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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Mike Stern

Check One
Big Neighborhood 2010 via Heads Up
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose" Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Absolutely Sweet Marie
Blues On Blonde On Blonde 2003 via Telarc
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C.J. Chenier Taking Dylan Undercover

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Travis Meadows

Travelin' Bone
First Cigarette 2017 via Blaster
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Jackson, MS - Performed With The Great Sam Meyers In The Early Days

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9:40 am

Annika Chambers & The Houston All-Stars

Jealous Kind
Making My Mark 2014 via Montrose
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A Smoldering Joe Cocker Workout - Chambers' Voice Has The Righteous Power To Put Her Alongside Greats Like Aretha

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Los Straitjackets

Domino Twist
Twist Party 2006 via Yep Roc Records
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Joined By The World Famous Pontani Sisters, A Dance Act And Burlesque Revue Based In New York City - The Sisters Got Their Professional Start During The Late 1990s Swing Revival, As A Side Act Of The Flying Neutrinos

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Macoklis Mango
Putumayo Presents- Carnival 2001 via Putumayo
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Un Solo Pueblo, Venezuela 1976 - Reactivating The Ancient Musical Forms And Dance In Interpreting Traditional Venezuelan Music

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Brian Setzer Orchestra

Gloria
Vavoom! 2000 via Interscope Records
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Reworking The Cadillacs 1954 Classic - The Song Became Litmus Test For Every Doo-Wop Group That Followed - "Gloria" Remains An Essential Slice Of Doo-Wop And Classic Soul

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9:20 am

Ralston Bowles

Remember
Standing Together: A Song Cycle To Benefit Grand Rapids Public Schools [va] 2003 via Mackinaw Harvest Music Group
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WYCE Spring Fund Drive Is Currently Underway - This Set Of Music Is Featuring The Troubadours Of West Michigan

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Otis Blueswell Jr

Statesboro Blues
Man From Tennessee 2015 via Independents
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WYCE Spring Fund Drive Is Currently Underway - This Set Of Music Is Featuring The Troubadours Of West Michigan

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Ruth Bloomquist

Put Down That Beer and Dance
One Day Ain't Enough 2006 via Ruby Records
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WYCE Spring Fund Drive Is Currently Underway - This Set Of Music Is Featuring The Troubadours Of West Michigan

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Nicholas James Thomasma

Worries of the Wandering Traveller
Barefoot 2010 via Independent
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WYCE Spring Fund Drive Is Currently Underway - This Set Of Music Is Featuring The Troubadours Of West Michigan

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Rachael Davis

Amazing Grace
Live in Bremen, Germany 2004 via Aunt Farm
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WYCE Spring Fund Drive Is Currently Underway - This Set Of Music Is Featuring The Troubadours Of West Michigan

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9:00 am

R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders

Persian Rug
Chasin' Rainbows 1993 via NA
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Retro String Band Playing Songs From, And In The Style Of, The 1920s, Including Vaudeville And Medicine Show Tunes - Underground Cartoonist Robert Crumb Was The Band's Frontman

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Calexico

Liberada
El Mirador 2022 via ANTI
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Tuscon, AZ - Musical Style Is Influenced By Traditional Latin Sounds Of Mariachi, Conjunto, Cumbia, And Tejano

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Pieta Brown

In My Mind I Was Talkin' to Loretta
Remember The Sun 2007 via One Little Indian Us
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Self-Styled Poetess - Among The Top Tier Of Songwriters - Swing With Swagger - Greg Brown's Baby Girl

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Matt Andersen

All We Need
House To House 2022 via Independent
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Canadian Blues Guitarist - Juno Award Nominee - Three-Time Maple Blues Awards Recipient

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8:40 am

COMPILATIONS

I'm Tore Down
Cadillac Baby's Bea & Baby Records 2019 via Earwig Music
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Blues Spotlight: Little Mac Simmons - Befriended James Cotton, And Both Learned To Play The Harmonica Growing Up In Arkansas. Making His Stage Debut With Robert Nighthawk Prior To Relocating To Chicago In 1954, Little Mac Recorded For Several Windy City Labels, Including A Five-Year Residency At Cadillac Baby's. Obscure Singles Followed In The Early 1960's, Leading To His Leaving The Music Industry For The Ministry, And Was Rarely Heard For The Next 30 Years.Simmons Returned To Blues In '95, Accompanying Studebaker John. The Album Was Well Received. Malcolm "Little Mac" Simmons Passed On In 2000.

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Woman, Help Me
Cadillac Baby's Bea & Baby Records 2019 via Earwig Music
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Blues Spotlight: Little Mac Simmons & The Hipps; January 23, 1933 AR - October 24, 2000 IL

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Charles Mingus

Pussy Cat Dues
Mingus Ah Um [50th Anniversary Legacy Edition] 1959 via Columbia Legacy
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'820' Jazz Presents: Booker Ervin, Tenor Saxophone...John Handy, Clarinet...Jimmy Knepper, Trombone...Dannie Richmond, Drums...Horace Parlan, Piano...Charles, Bass - - - - - One Of The Most Consequential Albums In Jazz Or Any Other Genre. The Release Is Part Of The Library Of Congress National Recording Registry, And Has Been Inducted Into The Grammy Hall of Fame

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8:20 am

Jaime Wyatt

Wishing Well
Felony Blues 2017 via Forty Below
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Tacoma, WA - An Autobiographical Album Laying Bare Jamie's Hardscrabble Life - Jail; Redemption - Musical Success

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Allison De Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves

Each Season Changes You
Hurricane Clarice 2022 via Free Dirt
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New Album By The Stringband Revolutionaries Infusing Centuries Of Matrilineal Folk Wisdom, Weaving Their Own Family Histories Into The Project - Excellent Craftsmanship

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Precious Bryant

My Babe
The Truth 2005 via Terminus Records
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Written By Willie Dixon For Little Walter (1955) - The Only Dixon Composition Ever To Become A Number One R&B Single, And One Of The Biggest Hits Of Either Of Their Careers

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Chris Vallillo

Bonaparte's Retreat
The Last Day Of Winter 2012 via Gin Ridge
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Regional Musician - "The Bonny Bunch Of Roses" A Traditional Tune Composed In The 1830's By An Unknown Balladeer

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COMPILATIONS

Great High Mountain
Cold Mountain 2003 via Sony
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Jack White - A Rendering Of The '73 Classic By Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys

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8:00 am