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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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Afro Bop Alliance

Magharibi
Revelation 2016 via OA2
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions Returns Next Week, 8 AM

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Martin Simpson & Dom Flemons

Bulldoze Blues
Ever Popular Favorites 2016 via Wing & A Prayer
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Composed And Recorded By Henry Townsend, June 13, 1928 In Chicago

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Rory Block

Fixin' To Die Blues
Keepin' Outta Trouble - A Tribute To Bukka White 2016 via Stony Plain
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Producers: Rory Block & Rob Davis - Rory's Sixth Release In Her Mentor Series - This Time She Pays Tribute To Bukka White, One Of The Most Influential Country Blues Artists In History

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COMPILATIONS

Black Flag Blues
Highway Prayer - A Tribute To Adam Carrol 2016 via 30 Eight
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Tim Easton & Aaron Lee Tasjan

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9:40 am

Hasna El Becharia

Hakmet Lakdar
Dajair Johara 2001 via Label Bleu
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Algerian Poetess - Formed Her Quartet In 1972, It Continues To This Day with The Founding Members, Maintaining The Traditions Of The Gnawa Musicians Of Algeria - El Bécharia Is A Powerful Link With The Past

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J.D. Souther

Journey Down the Nile
If The World Was You 2008 via Mri Associated
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The Album's Release In '08 Was J.D.'s First In Twenty-Four Years

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Booker T. & The MG'S

Slim Jenkins' Place
And Now! 1966 via stax/Atlantic
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Second Release And The First To Feature Donald "Duck" Dunn

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Paper Bird

Yellow Sun
When The River Took Flight 2010 via Paper Bird
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Colorado - The Band Is Known for Playing In Odd Meters, Five-Beat; Seven-Beat

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Al Jolson

Shine On Harvest Moon
Rockabye Your Baby 2015 via Compose Americana
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Published In 1908 - One In A Series Of Moon-Related Tin Pan Alley Songs Of The Era

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9:20 am
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David Bromberg Band

Kentucky Blues
The Blues, The Whole Blues and Nothing But The Blues 2016 via Red House
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Covering Texas Guitarist Ace "Little Hat" Jones

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Ry Cooder

The Pearls/Tia Juana
Jazz 1978 via Warner
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Undercover: Jelly Roll Morton, 1923 - Jelly Roll Morton Was the First Great Composer And Piano Player Of Jazz

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April Verch

That's How We Run
That's How We Run 2011 via CDBY
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Iris Dement

Higher Ground
Infamous Angel 1992 via Warner Brothers
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Composed And First Published By Johnson Oatman In 1898 - Featuring Vocals From Flora Mae Dement

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9 O'Clock Doc: The Doc Watson Family

My Little Woman, You're So Sweet [1964]
Songs From the Southern Mountains 1994 via Sugar Hill
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Liner Notes: Nancy Watson Recalling Memories Of Grandpa Gaither Carlton, The First Watson Family Recording Session, And The April Night Merle Began Playing Guitar

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9 O'Clock Doc: The Doc Watson Family

Just A Friend [1973]
Songs From The Southern Mountains 1994 via Sugar Hill
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This Album's Music Is Taken From Field Recordings By Eugene Earle And D. K. Wilgus, Containing Previously Unreleased Material From The Early 1960's

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9:00 am

Cowboy Junkies

My Wild Child
One Soul Now 2004 via Maple
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Always Good To Hear Margo's Voice On The Radio

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Buffalo Springfield

On the Way Home
Last time Around 1968 via Atco
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Lead Vocal: Richie Furay - Third And Final Album With Jim Messina Producing

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Roy Book Binder

She Did You a Favor
Polk City Ramble 1998 via Rounder Select
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Madeleine Peyroux

Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On)
Secular Hymns 2016 via Impulse
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Luke Winslow-King

Heartsick Blues
Im Glad Trouble Dont Last Always 2016 via Bloodshot
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Michigan - The Album's Theme Reflects His Break-Up With Ester Rose

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8:40 am

Booker T. & The MG'S

Slim Jenkins' Place
And Now! 1966 via stax/Atlantic
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Spoonful Of Blues: Henry Townsend

She's Got What I Want
Mule's Blues 2015 via Nighthawk
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Left Home At The Age Of Nine And Hoboed His Way To St. Louis, Learning Guitar & Piano In His Early Teens From A Locally Renowned Bluesman Known As "Dudlow Joe." This Meeting Would Set A Course For A Distinguished Eighty-Year Career Beginning As The Top Session Man In St. Louis, Recording His First Sides In 1929 With Roosevelt Sykes And John Lee "Sonny Boy #1" Williamson. By The Early 1980's, Henry Townsend Had Become An Elder Statesman Of St. Louis Blues. Though Semi-Retired By That Time, He Continued To Play The Occasional Gig, Being Awarded A Posthumous Grammy In 1985 For His Participation On The Album "The Last Of The Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen - Live in Dallas, Which Featured Fellow Nonagenarians Robert Lockwood, David "Honeyboy Edwards," And Pinetop Perkins.

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Spoonful Of Blues: Henry Townsend

Heart Broken Man Blues
St. Louis Blues Ace 1996 via St. Louis Music
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October 27, 1909 Mississippi - September 26, 2006 Wisconsin - Awards: National Heritage Fellowship, 1985; St. Louis Walk Of Fame, 1995; Best Traditional Blues Album, Given For His Performances On Last Of The Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas, 2008; Henry Townsend Was Added To the Mississippi Blues Trail, 2009

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This Is '820' Jazz: Herb Ellis

Blues For Janet
Nothing But The Blues 1957 via Verve
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Stan Getz, Tenor Sax...Ray Brown, Bass...Stan Levey, Drums...Roy Eldridge, Trumpet...Heb Ellis, Guitar

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8:20 am

COMPILATIONS

Easy Money
Feel Like Going Home (The Songs of Charlie Rich) 2016 via Memphis International
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Vocals: Preston Shannon - Charlie's Recordings During His Time At Sun records

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Gillian Welch

Dry Town (Demo)
Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg 2016 via Acony
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Due Out November 25, This Album Features Outtakes, Alternate Versions, And Demos From The Making Of Gillian's Landmark "Revival," Celebrating That Album's Twenty Year Anniversary

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Vern Williams Band

Bald Knob, Arkansas
Traditional Bluegrass 2004 via Arhoolie
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Accepted As The Father Of West Coast Bluegrass - With Partner Ray Park Formed The Carroll County Country Boys In 1959 - During their Tenure Playing, Vern And Ray Would Have An Indelible Mark On The Development And Future Of Bluegrass Music In California - Awards: International Bluegrass Music Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award, 1997

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Phyllis Boyens

Hewed Out Of The Mountains
A Bluegrass Gospel Songbook 2011 via Rounder
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West Virginia - Best Known For Playing Loretta Lynn's Mother, Clary, In The Movie Coal Miner's Daughter - She Passed On In 2009

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Lonesome Ace Stringband

Hills Of Mexico
Old Time 2014 via Lonesome Ace
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Canadian Trio Keeping the Appalachian Banjo/Fiddle Tunes Alive And Well

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Bryan Sutton

Rye Straw Suite
Almost Live 2009 via Sugar Hill
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Guests Include: Pete Wernick & Tim O'Brien Of Hot Rize, Béla Fleck, Mark Schatz, Sam Bush, And Russ Barenberg - Grammy Award For Best Bluegrass Album, 2010

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