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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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Agatsuma

Baetnorae-Tsugaru Yosare Bushi
Beyond 2004 via Domo Records
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Mary Rademacher

Somewhere Over The Rainbow
You Hit The Spot 2003 via Sonic Eden Records
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GR Sings! - Academy Award for Best Original Song, The Wizard Of Oz 1939

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You're My Man
Classic Piano Blues From Smithsonian Folkways 2008 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Victoria Spivey - Known As Queen Victoria - Recording Career Spanning 40 Years Beginning In Vaudeville - Record Label Owner; Savvy Business Woman - Highly-Influential Vocal Stylist To The Generations That Followed

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Tommy McLain

I Ran Down Every Dream
I Ran Down Every Dream 2022 via Yep Roc Records
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Guest: Elvis Costello - First Release In Forty-Years - Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame Member - Member Of The Vel-Tones In The Late '50s - Help On The Long-Player From Nick Lowe And Elvis Costello

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9:40 am

Bonnie Raitt

Three Time Loser
Sweet Forgiveness 1977 via Rhino
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First Commercial Breakthrough After Five Previously Released Albums - Fifty-Years Doing What She Does Best; Bonnie Is Celebrating Number 73 In A Few Days

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Eric Church - Mississippi Moon
Something Borrowed, Something New - A Tribute to John Anderson 2022 via Easy Eye Sound
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John Recorded This One In 1995, The Third And Final Single From His Long-Player Country 'Til I Die ; Written By Tony Joe White

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Djangophonique

I Cant Give You Anything But Love
Introducing Djangophonique 2022 via Independent
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Ann Arbor, MI - Commanded By Andrew Brown Of The Appleseed Collective - New Album

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Tyler Childers

Old Country Church [Jubilee Version]
Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven 2022 via RCA
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Lawrence County, KY - Latest Release With Longtime Backing Band The Food Stamps

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9:20 am

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Dynamite Woman
Keep Your Soul- A Tribute To Doug Sahm 2009 via Vanguard Records
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Dave Alvin - One Of The Selected Few Paying Tribute To The Late Doug Sahm Who Passed Away In 1999, Regarded As One Of The Main Figures Of Tex-Mex Music, And Important Performer Of Texan Music - A Child Prodigy On The Steel Guitar At Age Six; Performing With Hank Williams, Faron Young And Hank Thompson

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Linda Ronstadt - Piel Canela
Putumayo Presents Songs From The Sonoran Borderlands [Linda Ronstadt's Musical Odyssey] 2022 via Putumayo
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A Remastered Version Of The 1952 Song By Puerto Rican Balladeer Bobby Capo - Linda Originally Releasing The Song On The '92 Album Frenesi; Now Part Of The Sonoran Borderlands - The Album Is A Companion Piece For Linda's Book Feels Like Home; A Journey Through The Sonoran Borderlands

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Lala Njava

Kabary Seza
Malagasy Blues Song 2013 via Riverboat Records
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A Distinctive, Mesmerizing Musical Stew By The Uniquely-Voiced Singer/Guitarist Hailing From Madagascar

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Chris Thile

The Game is Afoot
Stealing Second 1997 via Sugarhill [Country]
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GR Appearance: 2/5/2023 St. Cecilia Music Society - The Mandolinist's Second Solo Released On Sugar Hill Records

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9:00 am

COMPILATIONS

I'm Gonna Love You Too
Rave On Buddy Holly 2011 via HEAR MUSIC
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Jenny O. Covering Holly.s 1957 Chestnut

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Amy Ray

Tear It Down (feat. Allison Russell)
If It All Goes South 2022 via Fat Possum Records
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Latest Long-Player

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Jimmie Stagger

Roll And Tumble Blues
Graveyard Of My Own 2015 via Independent
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GR's Elder Statesman Of The Blues - Running Through The 1929 Classic By Hambone Newman

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C.W. Stoneking

We Gon' Boogaloo
Gon' Boogaloo 2016 via King Hokum
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Multi-Award Winning Roots Music Recipient

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Jim Lauderdale - That Kind of Life, That Kind of Day (edit)
AmericanaFest 2022 [WYCE Sessions Live from Sound Stage Studios, Nashville, TN] 2022 via Independent
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Exceptional Songwriter/Singer, Superb Guitar Player, And A Very Sharp Dressed Man

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8:40 am

Lou Donaldson

Footpattin' Time
The Scorpion- Live at the Cadillac Club 1970 via Blue Note Records
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The Jazz Route: Leads Us To A Late Fall 1970 Live Date By The Lou Donaldson Quintet. The Album Entitled The Scorpion: Live At the Cadillac Club Sat On The Blue Note Shelves For Twenty-Five Years, Seeing The Light Of Day In 1995, A Perfect Document Of What A Funky Lounge Gig Was Like In The Era Of The Organ/Saxophone Combos - - - Melvin Sparks, Guitar...Idris Muhammad, Drums...Frank Ballard, Trumpet...Leon Spencer, Hammond B-3...Lou Donaldson, Alto Saxophone

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8:20 am

The Wild Honey Collective

North Country
The Wild Honey Collective, Vol. 2 2022 via Independent
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Mitten Music!

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Amy Farris

Pretty Dresses
Anyway 2004 via Yep Roc Records
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The Late Amy Farris Passed Away At The Age Of 31 - Caught Her Break With Alejandro Escovedo - Gigged With Kelly Willis & And Bruce Robison - Fiddle Player With Dave Alvin's Guilty Women

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Merle Travis

Lawdy, What A Gal
Rough,Rowdy And Blue 1986 via CMH records
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One Of the Most Influential Guitarists In History; Travis Picking

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Laurie Lewis and Grant Street

Don't Get Too Close
Singin' My Troubles Away 1990 via Flying Fish Records
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Old-Time Fiddle Champion During The Early Years

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Tom Dooley
Classic Folk Music From Smithsonian Folkways 2004 via Smithsonian Folkways
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The New Lost City Ramblers, 1959 - Traditional North Carolina Folk Song Based On The 1866 Murder Committed By Confederate Soldier Tom Dula - Tom Dooley Fits The Wider Genre Of Appalachian Sweetheart Murder Ballads

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Philip Boulding

Tennessee Waltz
Harp 1988 via Flying Fish Records
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This Classic Performed On Hammered Dulcimer - The Hammered Dulcimer Has A Long History With Its Origin During The Middle Ages

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8:00 am