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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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Ten Strings And A Goat Skin

Medley- Igen - Magic Mark - Alan
Aupres du Poele 2016 via Tsaags
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Incredibly Loose." Traditions Returns Next Week, 8 AM

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Chuck Berry

Reelin' And Rockin'

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Happy Birthday, Chuck! Turning 90 This Past Week

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(REQUESTED)

The Time Jumpers

My San Antonio Rose
Kid Sister 2016 via Rounder
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Lead Vocals: Dawn Sears - Temple Theater, Saginaw, MI 4/29

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Doug MacLeod

Pretty As Pretty Can Be [Live]
Doug MacLeod On Black And Tan, Vol. 1
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Consummate Canadian Troubadour & Multiple Blues Award Recipient - sideman Gigs With George 'Harmonica' Smith, Big Joe Turner, Pee Wee Crayton, Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson, Lowell Fulson And Big Mama Thornton - "Never Play A Note You Don't Believe", And "Never Write Or Sing About What You Don't Know About." DM

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Eden Brent

Why Don't You Do Right
Mississippi Number One 2008 via Yellow Dog Records
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Greensville, Mississippi - Nickname: "Little Boogaloo" - Blues Pianist And Vocalist - Vocal Style Has Been Compared To Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie And Aretha Franklin

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9:40 am

Montana Skies

House Of The Rising Sun
Chasing The Sun 2011 via Courtesy Of You Tube
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Traditional Folk Song, Sometimes Called "Rising Sun Blues" - Composer Unknown - Similarities To The 16th Century Ballad "The Unfortunate Rake" - Said to Have Been Known By Miners In 1905 - Oldest Known Recording: Appalachian Artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley And Gwen Foster, 1933

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David Bromberg Band

The Blues, The Whole Blues and No
The Blues, The Whole Blues and Nothing But The Blues 2016 via Red House
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Produced By Larry Campbell - Fifty-Years Of Entertaining In That Delicious Bromberg Style

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Madeleine Peyroux

Hello Babe
Secular Hymns 2016 via Impulse
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Composers: Kansas Joe McCoy & Lil Green, 1941 - Recorded By Lil And Big Bill Broonzy In '41

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9:20 am

Jim Kweskin & Meredith Axelrod

All Of Me
Come On In 2016 via Jim Kweskin
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Written By Gerald Marks And Seymour Simons in 1931 - The Song Has Been Recorded Over Two Thousand Times - It Is A Jazz Vocal Standard

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Merle Travis

Cincinnati Lou [1946]
The Merle Travis Story 1989 via CMH
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Major Influence On Chet Atkins

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Jim & Bob (The Genial Hawaiians)

Hula Blues [1933]
Rough Guide To Bottleneck Blues 2016 via World Music Network
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Jim Holstein And Bob Pauole - All The Genial Hawaiians Releases Come From One Recording Session On December 12, 1933 In Chicago - Unfortunately Very Little Is Known About Jim and Bob. No One Even Knows For Sure What Became Of Them After The Mid-1930's

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Jesse Mae Hemphill

Take Me Home With You, Baby
Get Right Blues 2003 via Indie
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Mississippi - Influential North Mississippi Hill Country Blues Guitarist & Singer - Didn't Begin A Formal Recording Career 'Til 1980, At The Age Of 57

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Georgie
Home Again! 1966 via Vanguard
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Doc's Fourth Studio Release, With Merle - "Georgie," Co-Written With Fiddler Gaither Carlton (Doc's Father-In-Law)

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Sleep Baby Sleep
My Dear Old Southern Home 1993 via Sugar Hill
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Doc Covers The Jimmie Rodgers Classic - This Is One Of Doc's Best Latter-Day Records, Boasting An Affectionate Collection Of Old Time And Traditional Country Songs

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9:00 am

Taarka

Samali Atzlan
Even Odd Bird 2004 via Omnivine
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Lyons, CO - A Collision Of Django Reinhardt & David Grisman - Husband/Wife Duo Of David & Enion Tiller

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Luke Winslow-King

No More Crying Today
Im Glad Trouble Dont Last Always 2016 via Bloodshot
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Two Night Stand With Greensky Bluegrass In Flagstaff This Week And Then Off On An Extensive European Tour

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Lucinda Williams

Jug Band Music
Ramblin' 1991 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Delving Deep Into The History Of The Memphis Jug Band (1928)

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Nerissa & Katryna Nields

Ain't That Good News
Sister Holler 2008 via Mercy House
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Nerissa & Katryna Celebrating Twenty-Five Years Together

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Tom Paxton

I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm bound
Ramblin' Boy 1964 via Elektra
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Debut Album Produced By Paul Rothchild (The Doors) - Greenwich Village Troubadour - Renowned Singer/Songwriter - Voice Of A Generation - Still Maintains A Busy Touring Schedule At Age 79

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8:40 am
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Spoonful Of Blues: Bobby Bland

Farther Up The Road
Blues Consolidated 1958 via Duke
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January 27, 1930 - June 23, 2013 - Bobby Bland Was Among The Great Storytellers Of Blues And Soul, Creating Tempestuous Arias Of Love, Betrayal And Resignation - Born In Memphis, He Hung Out With BB, Roscoe Gordon And Johnny Ace - A Major Hit Maker 1960's, The Catchier Sounds Of Motown Soon Eclipsed The Funkier Sounds Of Stax - Financial Pressures Soon Followed & For the Next Twenty Years He Stayed Close to His Roots, Preferring To Tour The Southern Circuit - The Last Stage Of His Recording Career Produced Ten Well-Honed Albums In Which He Embarked Once Again On The Stormy Seas Of Heartbreak And Ecstasy With An Even Surer Hand On the Wheel - Passing On In June 2013, His Influence Is Undeniable

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Spoonful Of Blues: Amos Milburn

Chicken Shack Boogie
Blues, Barrelhouse & Boogie-Woogie: The Best Of Amos Milburn 1946-1955 1996
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April 1, 1927 - January 3, 1980 - Boogie Piano Master Pounding Out Some Of The Most Hellacious Boogies Of The Postwar Era Garnering Massive Hits During The Immediate Pre-Rock Era - Signed With Aladdin Records In Los Angeles In 1946 - Spent Some Time On The Road With Charles Brown - One Of The First Performers To Switch From Sophisticated Jazz Arrangements To The Louder Jump Blues Style - A Commercial Success For Eleven Years Influencing Many Performers; Little Willie Littlefield, Floyd Dixon And Fats Domino

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This Is '820' Jazz: Kermit Ruffins

Didn't He Ramble?
Livin' A Treme' Life 2009
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George Porter, Jr., Bass...David Toranowsky, Piano...Herlin Riley, Drums...Kermit Ruffins, Trumpet

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8:20 am

The Stray Birds

The Bells
Best Medicine 2014 via Yep Roc
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The Ark, Ann Arbor 11/19

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Gal Holiday And The Honky Tonk Revue

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Set Two 2010 via HTRP
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Pickin' On Dylan This Morning

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Jim Lauderdale

This Changes Everything
This Changes Everything 2016 via Sky Crunch
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Multi-Award Winning Mr. Everything

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The Johnson Mountain Boys

Say You'll Come Back To Me
Working close 1983 via Rounder
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Forming In Washington, DC In 1980, They Are No Longer Together

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James King

Highway To Nowhere
Three Chords and the Truth 2013 via Rounder
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When Asked What Real Country Music Was, Harlan Howard Replied, "Country Music Isn't Nothing But Three Chords And The Truth."

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the Barefoot Movement

Tobacco Road
Footwork 2011 via Lonesome Records
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Nashville Based Trio With Fifteen Years Behind Them, Founding The Band As High School Seniors

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COMPILATIONS

Ruby With the Eyes That Sparkle
Cold Mountain 2003 via Sony
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Stuart Duncan: Fiddle - Dirk Powell: Banjo

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8:00 am