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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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Brass Band of Battle Creek

St. Louis Blues
Music For Battle Creek- Brown, Chabrier, Conti, Handy, Offenbach, Shostakovich, Turrin & Wagner 2016 via MSR Classics
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week, 8 AM

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J.J. Cale And Eric Clapton

Heads In Georgia
The Road to Escondido 2006 via Reprise
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Nominated For A Grammy Award For Best Contemporary Blues Album (2007) - Laid-Back Groove; Even When The Music Starts Jumping, It Never Breaks A Sweat

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Bela Fleck And Abigail Washburn

Bye Bye Baby Blues
Bela Fleck And Abigail Washburn 2014 via Rounder
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Composer: George "Little Hat" Jones, 1929 (Texas Blues Guitarist)

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Trixie Butler

Just A Good Woman Through With The Blues [1936]
Walk Right In (When The Sun Goes Down) 2002 via Bmg
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Composer: Trixie Butler - Vaudeville Stage Actress, 1920's

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9:40 am
NYE: Michigan Music Mecca (click for more info)

Four amazing Michigan acts will ring in New Year 2017 at the "Michigan Music Mecca" at Wealthy Theatre!


Seth Bernard, The Crane Wives, Vox Vidorra, and The Go Rounds will each share a full set of music starting at 8pm on Saturday, December 31st.

Bring cash or nonperishable food items to donate to Feeding America West Michigan. 

Tickets for Michigan Music Mecca - this New Year's Eve - are just $35 and on sale now at Wealthy Theatre dot org

Hard Swimmin' Fish

Howlin' for My Darlin'
True Believer 2016 via Independent
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Composer: Chester "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett, 1959

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Mick McAuley

Domino (Ft. Colm O'Caoimh)
High And Bellows 2016 via Mick McAuley
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Solo Side Project Away From His Duties As Founding Member Of Solas - This Is Mick's Second Album And Is Joined By Outstanding Celtic Guitarist, Colm O'Caoimh

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Rhiannon Giddens

Freedom Highway
Freedom Highway 2017 via Nonesuch
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Founding Member, The Carolina Chocolate Drops - Guest Musician: Bhi Bhiman) - The Album Release Is Scheduled For February 24, 2017

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(REQUESTED)

Bruce Springsteen

My Oklahoma Home
We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions 2006 via Sony
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Composer: Sis Cunningham, Publicist Of Folk Music & Protest Songs - Pete Seeger Recorded It In 1961 - The SongFell Into Oblivion Then Revived By Springsteen For These Sessions

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9:20 am

Front Country

The Boys Of Summer
Mixtape 2016 via Front Country
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San Francisco, CA Quintet - They Spend The Month Of January On Tour Supporting Greensky Bluegrass

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Spencer Bohren

Workin' On A Building
Southern Cross 2004 via Valve
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Gospel-Infused Roots Musician & Educator From Casper, Wyoming Now Residing In New Orleans, His City Of Inspiration

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The Bumper Jacksons

Darkness On The Delta
Sweet Mama, Sweet Daddy, Come In 2014 via Bumper Jacksons

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson & Chet Atkins

Flatt Did It
Reflections 1980 via Sony
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Two Of The Finest Guitarists The World Has Ever Produced - Each Idolized Guitarist Merle Travis

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson & Chet Atkins

Don't Monkey 'Round My Widder
Reflections 1980 via Sony
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Recorded: Room 206, The Spencer Manor Hotel September 25, 1979 Nashville, TN

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9:00 am

James McMurtry

Crazy Wind
Too Long in the Wasteland 1989 via Sony
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Producer: John Mellencamp - Blowing Off Ten Years Of Dust For This Wonderful Nugget Buried Deep Within 'Too Long In The Wastland' - "James McMurtry Is A True Americana poet - Actually He Is A Poet Regardless Of Genre," Michael Nesmith

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(REQUESTED)

Anne & Pete Sibley

Some Sweet Day
Think Of This River 2004 via Anne & Pete Sibley
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Debut Album -Continuing To Grace The Festival Stages From North Carolina's' Merlefest' To Colorado's 'Rockygrass' - Favorite Of 'Prairie Home Companion'

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Phil Ochs

A Toast To Those Who Are Gone
A Toast To Those Who Are Gone 1986 via Phil Ochs
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A Collection Of Early, Unreleased Demos From the Early 1960's - No Better Folk Singer Armed With A Guitar - Phil Is In The Spotlight Tomorrow As the 'YCE Artist Of The Day

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Natalie Merchant

Weeping Pilgrim
The House Carpenter's Daughter 2003 via Myth America
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Discovered In An 18th Century Protestant Hymnal

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8:40 am
Promo - In-Studio Performances (click for more info)

Tune in to WYCE for intimate in-studio interviews - and live performances - from local and touring musicians. We bring you up close to some of our favorite acts as they share brand new songs - often before they're even released - with stories and insights behind the music.

Then, check out "WYCE dot org" for an audio archive of recent in-studio performances. While you're there, browse our calendar of upcoming artist visits!

Spoonful Of Blues: Sonny Boy Williamson ll

Sad To Be Alone [1960]
The Real Folk Blues 2002 via Checker
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Born On The Sarah Jones Plantation In Tallahatchie, Mississippi in 1912, Aleck Miller Used Several Stage Names In His Early Career, Including Little Boy Blue And Rice Miller - An Early And Influential Blues Harp Stylist, He Used The Moniker Sonny Boy Williamson ll Beginning 1941 - One Of Sonny Boy's First Major Recordings Was On Elmore James' "Dust My Broom." His Time As Solo Artist Over A Fertile Three Year Period Beginning In 1951 Found Him In Peak Form, His Vocal, Instrumental And Songwriting Skills Honed To Perfection - Many Of These Recordings Are Considered Classic Performances, Capturing His Juke Joint Blues In One Of Its Finest Hours - By The Time Of His Passing In 1965, He'd Been Around Long Enough to Play With Robert Johnson At The Start Of His Career And Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page And Robert Robertson At The End Of It. In Between He Drank A Lot Of Whiskey, Hoboed Around The Country, Had A Successful Radio Show For Fifteen Years, Toured Europe To Great Acclaim And Simply Wrote, Played And Sang Some Of The Greatest Blues Ever Etched Into Black Phonograph Records - Sonny Boy Was Elected To The Blues Foundation Hall of Fame In 1980.

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Spoonful Of Blues: Sonny Boy Williamson ll

My Younger Days [1964]
His Best 1997 via Chess/Umg
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December 5, 1912? Tallahatchie, MS - May 24, 1965? Tutwiler, MS

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This Is '820' Jazz: Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster

Blues In B Flat
Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster 1963 via Verve
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Jimmy Rowles, Piano...Mel Lewis, Drums...Leroy Vinnegar, Double Bass...Ben Webster, Tenor Saxophone...Gerry Mulligan, Baritone Saxophone

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8:20 am

Earl Scruggs

Jingle Bells
Earl Scruggs And Friends 2016 via Courtesy Of You Tube
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With The Bluegrass Allstars: Sam Bush, Ricky Scaggs, Randy Scruggs, Phil Ledbetter & Gary Scruggs

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J.D. Crowe & The New south

Mississippi River Raft
Lefty's Old Guitar 2006 via Rounder
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This Album Is Pure Magic!

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The Piedmont Melody Makers

Little Boy Loser
Wonderful World Outside 2016 via Independent
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Latest Offering From Alice Gerrard And Her Great Band

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Boiled Buzzards

Milwaukee Blues
Salt And Grease 1990 via Boiled Buzzards
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Cleveland, Ohio, 1988: No Longer Together - Pickin' On Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers, 1930

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South Austin Jug Band

Summer Sunset
Dark & Weary World 2006 via SAJB
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Producer: Lloyd Maines

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8:00 am