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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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John McDowell

Piano Raga
Speaking the Mamma Tongue 2004 via Raven
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Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Silver Creek Revival

House On The River
Young In Warm Weather 2024 via Independent
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WYCE: Nominated For Best Roots Album Of The Year; Jammies 25,2/28

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Professor Longhair

Red Beans
Crawfish Fiesta 1980 via Alligator
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Composer: McKinley "Muddy Waters" Morgsnfield - Fess' Unique Piano Style Incorporated Afro-Caribbean influences, Barrelhouse Boogie-Woogie, And The Crescent City's "Second Line' Parade Rhythms. - Pioneer Of Rock And Roll And The Patriarch Of New Orleans Rhythm And Blues Piano

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Reggie & Kim Harris, ft. Baby Jay

Row De Boat
Get On Board! Underground Railroad & Civil Rights Freedom Songs 2007 via Appleseed Records
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Based On Michael, Row The Boat Ashore, A Traditional Spiritual First Noted During The American Civil War On The Sea Islands Of South Carolina - Sung By Former Slaves Whose Owners Had Abandoned The Island Before The Union Navy Arrived To Enforce A Blockade

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9:40 am
Literacy Center of West Michigan (click for more info)
The Literacy Center of West Michigan has a waiting list of learners who are seeking one-on-one mentorship to improve their literacy skills. 

You can meet this need, and best of all, you don't need any special skills...just the ability to read and write English and a passion to help others do the same.

Attending a volunteer information Session is the first step in learning more about becoming a literacy coach.

You can find more information online at literacycenterwm dot org.  That's iteracycenterwm dot org.

Various/Unknown Artist

Killing Floor
The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions 1989 via Chess
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Howlin' Wolf - One Of The First Super Session Blues Albums, Setting A Blues Master Among With Musicians From The Second Generation Of Rock And Roll, Being Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Charlie Watts, And Bill Wyman - - - - Chester "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett: Regarded As One Of The Most Influential Bluesman Of All Time

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The Wild Honey Collective

Goodbye Forever
The Wild Honey Collective, Vol. 3 2024 via GTG
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WYCE: Nominated For Best Roots Album Of The Year: Jammies 25, 2/28 - Performing On The Main Stage At 6:45

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9:30 am
Switchback (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from Switchback Gear Exchange... a full-service bike shop and community hub!

Switchback Gear Exchange features new and used bikes, accessories, and expert bike services. 

On Tuesdays, they host a bluegrass jam. Wednesdays are "Craft N Draft Nights at 5:30, and every other Thursday is an old-time jam with live music by Hawks and Owls,  plus "Almost Famous Burritos" are featured as well.

More information on Switchback is on most Social Media platforms or at goswitchback dot com.

Candi Staton

I'm Just A Prisoner (Of Your Love)
Stand By Your Man 1971 via Parlophone
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A Southern Soul Stylist Discovered By Clarence Carter - Sixteen R&B Hits For Rick Hall's FAME Studios Muscle Shoals, AL -

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Jack Radcliffe and Al Oliveira

Every Day I Get the Blues
Too Hot to Handle 2002 via Wepecket Island
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Composed In 1935 By Pinetop Sparks - This Performance Buy A Couple Of Seasoned Ragtime Jazzmen - Inducted Into The Old-Time Music Association Hall Of Fame

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9:20 am
WYCE Jammie Awards (click for more info)

WYCE is proud to announce our 25th Jammie Awards on Friday, February 28th, at the Intersection!

This year's Jammies brings you 18 Michigan bands on three stages, plus award presentations.

Tickets are on sale now at sectionlive dot com and at the Intersection box office through showtime. Doors are at 5 p.m. Music starts at 6.

Shout-out to our stage sponsors: Patriot Realty, Bridge Street Market, and Love Supreme!

And Schuler Books will be on-site with a selection of books for music lovers of all kinds available for purchase at the Jammies & for online orders too.

The 2025 WYCE Jammie Awards are presented by Varnum, with support from DGRI, Gun Lake Casino, Tiger Solar, Founder's Brewing, Stock Da Bar Vodka, and Schuler Books.


Flaco Jimenez

Pass Me By
He'll Have To Go 2008 via Me And My Records
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JImenez Is A Member Of The Texas Tornados And Los Super Seven, Both Heard Here On WYCE; The Conjunto Legend Turns 86 In A Few Days

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Astrud Gilberto

It Might As Well Be Spring
Great Women Of Song: Astrud Gilberto 2023 via Verve
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With The Stan Getz Quartet - Gilberto Became A Major Force In Popularizing The Bossa Nova Sound, Working That Magic On The Rodgers & Hammerstein Song From The 1945 Film "State Fair" - Miss Gilberto Passing On At The Age 83 In 2023. (astrood zhobehr tow)

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Sofia Rei

La Caida
Umbral 2021 via Cascabelera
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Classically Trained Mezzo-Soprano - Takes Influence From South American Folk Styles & Electronica

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COMPILATIONS

Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze -
Putumayo Presents African Yoga 2023 via Putumayo
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Tigana Santana: Groundbreaking Compooser; First Brazilian To Record An Entire Album Featuring African Languages

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9:00 am
GRPL-Dyer-Ives Poetry Competition (click for more info)

The Grand Rapids Public Library is proud to announce the 57th Annual Dyer-Ives Poetry Competition. 

The competition is open to Kent County ages 5 through adult who reside in or attend school in Kent County.

Poets can submit one original, unpublished poem now through February 28th.  

Submitting poems is free and winners selected in different categories have their poems published in Voices, plus a cash award.

More information about  the 57th Annual Dyer-Ives Poetry Competition is available at grpl dot org. 

Ray Lamontagne

Misty Morning Rain
Monovision 2020 via RCA
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Multi-Award Winning New Hampshire Troubadour With An Impeccably Weathered Tenor Croon

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La Compagnie Musical Dance Troupe

A Health To The Company
A Health To La Compagnie 2024 via Independent
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WYCE: Nominated For Best Roots Album Of The Year: Jammies 25, 2/28

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8:40 am

Pink Anderson

Greasy Greens
Medicine Show Man 1961 via Fantasy
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Blues Plate Special: A Wandering Songster Spreading The Rural Blues From the Deep South To The Atlantic And The Heartland - Medicine Shows' Plying Their Trade In The Post WWII Era Had Blues Musicians With Them Who Had Lived This Life For Decades, And Pink Anderson Was A Prime Example Of The Breed -Teamed Up With Blind Guitarist Simmie Dooley In The Late 1920's, Recorded A Couple Of Tracks In Atlanta And Continued To Follow The Medicine Shows For Years, Sometines In The Company Of Peg-Leg Sam - Recorded Several Albums For the Prestige Label At The Onset Of The Folk/Blues Revival And A Subject Of A Documentary - Pink Was A Stylish Guitarist And A Strong Singer With A Rich Heritage Of Entertaining Songs - In1965 Syd Barrett Was Looking For A Title For His Band; Combing Pink's Name With That Of Another Carolina Guitarist Floyd Council, And Came Up With Pink Floyd - Pink Passed On In 1974

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Jared Gold

Angel Eyes
Supersonic 2009 via Posi-Tone Records
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Jazz Spotlight: A Highly-Respected Organ, Guitar And Drum Trio; Homebase New York City

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8:20 am
WYCE Jammie Awards (click for more info)

WYCE is proud to announce our 25th Jammie Awards on Friday, February 28th, at the Intersection!

This year's Jammies brings you 18 Michigan bands on three stages, plus award presentations.

Tickets are on sale now at sectionlive dot com and at the Intersection box office through showtime. Doors are at 5 p.m. Music starts at 6.

Shout-out to our stage sponsors: Patriot Realty, Bridge Street Market, and Love Supreme!

And Schuler Books will be on-site with a selection of books for music lovers of all kinds available for purchase at the Jammies & for online orders too.

The 2025 WYCE Jammie Awards are presented by Varnum, with support from DGRI, Gun Lake Casino, Tiger Solar, Founder's Brewing, Stock Da Bar Vodka, and Schuler Books.


Wood Box Heroes

Better When We're Livin'
444 2024 via WBH
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Over A Century Of Musical Seasoning Between Them Led By Matt Menefee Of The Warren Haynes Band And Mumford & Sons

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I Want To Live And Love
This Ain't No Mouse Music 2014 via Smithsonian Folkways
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The Maddox Brothers & Rose, 1950 - Among The Earliest Hillbilly Music Stars To Emerge From The West Coast

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Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

Looking For A Manger
Honeysuckle 2025 via Family Owned
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With The McCrary Sisters - New Into 'YCE

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Michael Cleveland, Jason Carter, Darrell Scot

With A Vamp In The Middle
Single 2025 via Fiddleman Records
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Composer: John Hartford - Current Collaboration

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Joel Mabus

The Red Robin
Lonesome Road 2024 via Fossil
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WYCE: Nominated For Best Roots Album Of The Year; Jammies 25, 2/28

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Claudia Schmidt

Wayfaring Stranger
Bend in the River 2012 via Red House
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New Baltimore, MI - Appalachian Dulcimer And Guitar Are Her Instruments Of Choice

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8:00 am