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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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Jose Gonzalez & Banda Criolla

Puerto Rican Gypsy
Fiesta En San Juan 1994 via Jose Gonzalez
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Till Next Week..Keep It Pickin'

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Devil in a Woodpile

My Baby Leavin'
Division Street 2000 via Bloodshot Records
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A Band Routinely Giving A Fresh Twist To Eighty-Year Old Songs

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(REQUESTED)

Junior Wells

Use Me
Keep On Steppin': The Best Of Junior Wells (Compilation) 1996 via Telarc
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Odetta

I've Been Living With The Blues
Odetta And The Blues 1962 via Riverside
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This Classic Album Is Notable for Odetta's Use Of A Jazz Band. It Has Been Re-Released Three Times Since '62

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The Dustbowl Revival

Hey Baby
With A Lampshade On 2015 via Signature Sounds
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East Coast Quintet Possessing A Wicked Groove

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9:40 am
AOTM: Neil Young (click for more info)

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We Banjo 3

Get Onboard (Live)
Live in Galway 2015 via Independent
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Deliciously Blurring The Lines Between Celtic & American Music. Appearing In Ann Arbor At The Ark, 8/4...First Set 8 PM

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Ann Hampton Callaway

A Kiss To Build A Dream On
Signature 2002 via Encoded
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In Memory Of Louis Armstrong Passing On Forty-Four Years Ago, July 6, 1971.

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B.B. King

Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby-
Let The Good Times Roll- The Music of Louis Jordan 1999 via Mca
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B.B.'s Seventh Release Featuring Dr.John On This Song.

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Marty Grosz Meets the Fat Babies

Rose of Washington Square
Diga Diga Doo 2015 via Delmark
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New Into The 'YCE Blues Alley

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9:20 am
(REQUESTED)

Sam Bush

White Bird
Laps In Seven 2006 via Sugarhill [Country]
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Underhill Rose

Whispering Pines Motel
The Great Tomorrow 2015 via Independent
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The Robb M Fresh Pick Of The Week

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Hurray For The Riff Raff

Blue Ridge Mountain
Small Town Heroes 2014 via ATO
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Louisiana Based Music Collective Formed By Singer Alynda Lee Segarra. The Band Has Released Seven Albums To Date.

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Doc Watson/Tom Ashley/Fred Price/Clint Howard

Way Downtown (1963)
Essential 1973 via Sugar Hill
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Doc Watson

Blue Smoke
Doc Watson At Gerdes Folk City 2001 via Sugarhill [Country]
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9 O'Clock Doc: A Two Tune Traditions Tribute To Arthel "Doc" Watson, Flat Picker - Deep Gap, NC

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9:00 am
The Bob (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from Dr. Grins and DrinkGR--co-hosting the first annual Spelling Bee(r) Fundraiser --benefiting the Grand Rapids Public Library's Summer Reading Program--happening Wednesday, July 15 at the BOB.

Comedian Stu Mcallister hosts a 25 person spelling bee competition and brew masters only competition.

The event features a variety of craft beer, barbecue buffet, stand up comedy and more.

Silent auction to benefit GRPL, with items from ArtPrize, UICA, Experience GR, The Gilmore Collection and others.

Tickets available now for the Spelling Bee(r) Fundraiser on July 15th at the BOB dot com

The Youngbloods

Get Together
The Younbloods 1967 via RCA
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The Song's Meaning Still Resonates Forty-Eight Years On

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Disappear Fear

Draft Dodger Rag
Get Your Phil 2011 via Disappear Records
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A Collection Of Song's Written By Anti-War Protest Singer Phil Ochs Featuring The Wonderful Vocals Of Sonia Rutstein & Cindy Frank, The First In Six Years The Sisters Have Harmonized Together.

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Tim Easton

Troublesome Kind
Special 20 1998 via New West Records
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Amy Helm

Gentling Me
Didn't It Rain 2015 via Eone
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Special Guests: Billy Payne, Larry Campbell & John Medeski

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Jukejoint Handmedowns

Since Annie's Been Gone
Jukejoint Handmedowns Sing Songs of Death, Murder & the Afterlife 2015 via Idle Hands Music
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GR Flavor: Appearing Wedneday (7/15) At The Speak EZ Lounge

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8:40 am

Spoonful Of Blues: Speckled Red

Early In The Morning [1930]
Complete Recorded Works: 1929-1938 1994 via Document
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Speckled Red, Born Rufus Perryman in Hampton, Georgia, Was An American Blues And Boogie-Woogie Piano Player & Singer Noted For His Recordings Of "The Dirty Dozens", Exchanges Of Insults And Vulgar Remarks That Have Long Been A Part Of African American Folklore. He Was A Member Of The First Generation Of Blues Pianists To Record And Did So Till 1940, Opting To Return To The Tavern Circuit In St. Louis. 10/23/1892-1/2/1973 (80) Louisiana

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Spoonful Of Blues: Noah Lewis

Viola Lee Blues
Noah Lewis's Jug Band 1930 via Victor
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Noah Lewis Was An American Jug Band & Country Blues Musician, Generally Known For Playing The Harmonica. Lewis Recorded Four Solo Tracks And Another Four Sides As The Noah Lewis Jug Band In 1930, The Latter Incorporating Sleepy John Estes (Guitar) & Yank Rachell (Mandolin). After His Death, Several Of His Songs Become Part Of The Repertoire Of The Grateful Dead, Including "New, New Minglewood Blues", "Viola Lee Blues", & "Big Railroad Blues". 9/3/1895-2/7/1961 (76) Tennessee

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Kelly Blue
Kelly Blue 1959 via Riverside
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Bobby Jasper, Flute...Benny Golson, Tenor Sax...Nat Adderley, Cornet...Paul Chamber, Bass...Jimmy Cobb, Drums...Wynton Kelly, Piano

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8:20 am

The Lonesome Trio

Pigeon's Foot
The Lonesome Trio 2015 via Sugar Hill
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Band Founded Twenty-Two Years Ago On The Campus Of Oberlin College, Northern Ohio

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Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard

Lee Highway Blues
Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass
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Exactly What The Title Means: Pioneering

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Donna Hughes

The Way I Am
Wedding Songs By Donna Hughes 2014
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North Carolinian Has Written Over 500 Songs Including "Lonely Runs Both Ways." Recorded By Alison Krauss & Union Station

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David Olney

C'mon Through Carolina
Through A Glass Darkly 1999 via Philo Records
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Al Petteway & Amy White

Bobcat In The Brambles
Land Of The Sky 2011
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Husband & Wife Duo Appearing At The Michigan Fingerstyle Guitar Society In Detroit On 11/7

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Chris Stapleton

Traveller
Traveller 2015 via Mercury
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Debut Album: Kentucky Born Nashville Based Singer-Songwriter

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8:00 am
The Bob (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from Dr. Grins and DrinkGR--co-hosting the first annual Spelling Bee(r) Fundraiser --benefiting the Grand Rapids Public Library's Summer Reading Program--happening Wednesday, July 15 at the BOB.

Comedian Stu Mcallister hosts a 25 person spelling bee competition and brew masters only competition.

The event features a variety of craft beer, barbecue buffet, stand up comedy and more.

Silent auction to benefit GRPL, with items from ArtPrize, UICA, Experience GR, The Gilmore Collection and others.

Tickets available now for the Spelling Bee(r) Fundraiser on July 15th at the BOB dot com