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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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Organissimo

Gotcha Back
Dedicated 2013 via Big O Records
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions Returns Next Week, 8 AM

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Mojo Blues Band

Roll Over Beethoven
Blues Parade 2000 2000 via Styx
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Miss Maybell & Slimpickin's

Rag Mama Rag
Vol. 1 2016 via Independent
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Clara Morris

Cry On Daddy
Female Chicago Blues 1936 - 1947 1994 via Document
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With Blind John Davis, Piano...Lonnie Johnson Guitar - One Of Only Four Songs Known To Exist From Clara

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9:40 am
Seven Steps Up - Nora Jane Struthers (click for more info)

Tonight, Seven Steps Up presents Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line with special guest Ryan Hommel. The show starts at 8 PM

Seven Steps up is a Live Music & Event Venue located in downtown Spring Lake in the heart of the Arts District at 116 South Jackson Street, just 30 minutes from downtown Grand Rapids.

More information at seven steps up dot com and complete concert schedule at pin drop concerts dot com

The McDades

Dance Of The Seven Veils
Bloom 2006 via Free Radio
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Alberta, Canada

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(REQUESTED)

Peter Tosh

Equal Rights
Scrolls of the Prophet: The Best 1999 via Sony
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Nappy Brown

Skidy Woe [1958]
Night Time Is The Right Time 2009 via SLG
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R&B Crooner Known For Adding Distinctive Extra Syllables In His Singing

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Mose Allison

Some Right, Some Wrong
The Way of the World 2010 via Anti
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Mose Has Retired From Touring After Sixty-Five Years - He Will Turn 89 In November

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Doolin'

Ballad of Hollis Brown
Doolin' 2016 via compass
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Undercover: Bob Dylan,1964 (The Times They Are A- Changin')

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9:20 am
Meijer Gardens | Tuesday Evening Music Club -Week5 (click for more info)

WYCE is a media sponsor for the Tuesday Evening Music Club at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.

This week experience veteran singer song writer Dave Hardin and the energetic freak-folk of Brother Adams.

Tuesday Evening Music Club occurs at 7:00pm at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.

More information on the 2016 lineup is at meijer gardens dot o-r-g

High Bar Gang

Cold Rain And Snow
Someday the Heart Will Trouble the Mind 2016 via true north
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Composer: Unknown - First Appearing In Print In 1917 In The Compilation "English Folk Songs From The Southern Appalachians

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Brown Bird

Down To The River
The Devil Dancing 2009 via Brown Bird
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Rhode Island - No Longer Together

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Etran Finatawa

Eldam
The Sahara Sessions 2013 via unknown
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Recorded Deep In The Sahara Sheltered Only By An Animal-Skin Tent And The Vast Canopy Of Midnight Stars

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Rev. Gary Davis

I Am The Light Of This World
Harlem Street Singer (Remastered) 1992 via Fantasy
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Original Release:1960 - Taught The Guitar To Blind Boy Fuller In The Mid-1920's

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9:00 am

Gurf Morlix

Wild Things
Toad of Titicaca 2000 via Catamount
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Austin Based Since 1975 - Spent Eleven Years With Lucinda Williams Producing Her First Two Albums

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Frankie Lee

Queen of Carolina
American Dreamer 2016 via Loose Music
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Minnesota - Third Release And First Full Length Album - The Songs Were Cut Live With Very Little Overdubbing

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Joan Baez

Gracias A La Vida
Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration 2016 via Thirteen Productions
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With Nano Stern, Chilean Musician

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Cahalen Morrison And Eli West

Fleeting Like The Days
The Holy Coming of the Storm 2010 via Independent
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Two Of The Most Innovative And Subtle Roots Musicians Working Today

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8:40 am

Bob "Doctor" Gaddy And His Lost Keys

Slow Down, Baby [1956]
Risque' Rhythm & Blues 2016 via Sunset
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An American East Coast Blues And Rhythm And Blues Pianist, Singer A And Songwriter

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Spoonful Of Blues: Bob Gaddy

Operator [1956]
The Classic Old Town Recordings 2012
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February 4, 1924 West Virginia - July 24, 1967 New York

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This Is '820' Jazz: Benny Goodman And His Orchestra

Oh! Baby [1946]
The Essential Benny Goodman 2007 via Sony

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8:20 am
Meijer Gardens | Tuesday Evening Music Club -Week5 (click for more info)

WYCE is a media sponsor for the Tuesday Evening Music Club at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.

This week experience veteran singer song writer Dave Hardin and the energetic freak-folk of Brother Adams.

Tuesday Evening Music Club occurs at 7:00pm at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.

More information on the 2016 lineup is at meijer gardens dot o-r-g

Elana James

Memories of You
Elana James 2006 via Snarf Records
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Founding And Current Member Of The Hot Club Of Cowtown - Lengthy Tour Underway With A Scheduled Stop In Ann Arbor At The Ark, 1/17/17

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Clair Lynch Band

Wabash Cannonball
Crowd Favorites 2008 via Rounder
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First Known Publication In 1882 And Titled As "The Great Island Route" - "The Wabash Cannonball" Is Part Of The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock And Roll. It Is The Oldest Song On The List.

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The Earls Of Leicester

I'm Working On A Road (To Glory Land)
Rattle & Roar 2016 via Rounder
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Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys, 1951 - The Earls Of Leicester Focus During The Period When The Foggy Mountain Boys Consisted Of Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, 'Uncle' Josh Graves, Paul Warren, Curly Seckle And 'Cousin' Jake Tullock

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Low Lilly

Cherokee Shuffle/Lucky
Low Lilly 2015 via Low Lilly
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Now A Trio, The Band Was Formerly Known As Annalivia

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8:00 am