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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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The Baird Sisters

New Green Place
Until You Find Your Green 2016 via Ba Da Bing
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Next Week, 8 AM

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Los Zafiros

Bossa Cubana
Bossa Cubana 1999 via Nonesuch
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Los Zafiros (The Sapphires) Were A Cuban Vocal Group Active In The Mid-Sixties - Inspired By American Doo-Wop Groups, They Incorpated Latin Rhythms Into Their Sound

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Brigitte Demeyer

Build Me a Fire
Savannah Road 2014 via Independent
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Wrote The Album While Reading And Being Inspired By Gregg Allman's Autobiography, 'My Cross To Bear' (Wonderful Read)

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9:40 am

Los Lobos

All I Wanted To Do Was Dance
By The Light Of The Moon 1987 via Warner
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East Los Angeles, CA - The Band's Fifth Release

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The Infamous Stringdusters

Gravity
Laws Of Gravity 2017 via Compass
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New Album Due Out January 13, 2017 - Electric Forest, Last Two Weekends In June, Rothbury, MI

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The Band

Christmas Music Be Tonight
Islands 1977 via Capitol
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Composer: Robbie Robertson; Lead Vocal: Rick Danko - Originally Recorded But Did Not Appear On The Band's 1975 album, Northern Lights, Southern Cross, Appearing Two Years Later On "Islands," The Final studio Album From The Group's Original Lineup

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HowellDevine

Harmonica Wobble #2
Jumps, Boogies & Wobbles 2013 via Arhoolie
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San Francisco, CA - The First Blues Band Arhoolie Records Signed In Twenty-Seven Years, Whose Stable Included Big Mama Thornton, Lightnin' Hopkins & Mississippi Fred McDowell - These Guys Would Right At Home Shaking The Floors Of A Southern Juke Joint Some 70 years Ago ​

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9:20 am

Aoife O'Donovan

Lakes Of Pontchartrain
Spotify Singles 2016 via Yep
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Pin Drop Concert Series At Seven Steps Up, February 16, Spring Lake

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Shirley Collins

Old Johnny Buckle
Lodestar 2016 via Domino
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Major Contributor To The English Folk Revival Of The 1960's & 70's - This Is Her First Album In Thirty Years

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Caroline Doctorow

Abraham, Martin And John
Dreaming In Vinyl 2016 via Caroline Doctorow
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Wonderful Reworking Of Dion DiMucci, 1968

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The Piedmont Melody Makers

Troublesome Waters
Wonderful World Outside 2016 via Independent
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Composers: Maybelle & Ezra Carter And Dixie Dean (Hall)

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Footprints In The Snow
Old Timey Concert 1967 via Vangard
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Recorded At The Seattle Folklore Society With Fred Price And Clint Howard

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

Christmas Lullabye
Sugar Plums - Holiday Treats From Sugar Hill 1993 via Sugar Hill
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Christmas Greetings From Doc Watson, Flat Picker Deep Gap, NC

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9:00 am

Happy Traum

Empty Pocket Of Blues
I Walk The Road Again 2005 via Roaring Stream
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Composer: Clive Palmer, Founding Member Of The Incredible String Band, 1966 - Traum Was A Participant Of The Legendary Washington/Greenwich Village Scene Of The 1950's & '60's - Influenced By The Great Brownie McGhee

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Charlie Parr

Old Dog Blue
I Ain't Dead Yet 2016 via Red House
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Parr's Reworking Of A Late Nineteenth-Century Minstrel Song - Hokum Singer & Songster Jim Jackson Recorded A Version In 1928

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Indigo Girls

Come a Long Way
One Lost Day 2015 via Vanguard
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Amy Ray & Emily Saliers - Appearing At The Ann Arbor Folk Festival, 1/28

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Emmylou Harris

Light Of The Stable
Light Of The Stable 1979 via Warner
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Harmony Vocals: Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt And Dolly Parton

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8:40 am
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Spoonful Of Blues: Andrew "Big Voice" Odom

Woke Up This Morning [1982]
Feels So Good (Ft. Magic Slim & Lucky Peterson) 2014 via Dider Tricasd
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Born In Louisiana And A Staple On The Chicago Blues Scene For Thirty Years, Andrew "Big Voice," Odom Played With Earl Hooker To Form A Band With Carey Bell & Pinetop Perkins In 1967, Then Sang For Jimmy Dawkins After Hooker's Death In 1970. A Journeyman Blues Singer Who Recorded Relatively Sparingly, His Voice Is Known For its Close Resemblance To Bobby Bland And B.B. King. Recording Only Three Albums, Odom Never Broke Through As A Solo Artist. His Heart Was Into Supplying Soulful Vocal Lines On Many Great Performances By The Elite Guitarists On The Chicago Club Circuit. Odom Passed On In 1991 At The Age Of Fifty-Five.

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Spoonful Of Blues: Andew "Big Voice" Odom

Rock Me Baby
Goin' To California 1992 via Rounder
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December 15, 1936 Louisiana - December 23, 1991 Illinois

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This Is '820' Jazz: John Coltrane

My Favorite Things
My Favorite Things 1961 via Atlantic
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Steve Davis, Double Bass...Elvin Jones, Drums...McCoy Tyner, Piano...John Coltrane...Soprano Sax

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8:20 am

Chesapeake

Christmas Swing
Country Christmas Crackers 2013 via Welk Music
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Direct Offshoot From The Seldom Scene, Formed By Mike Aldridge, T. Michael Coleman And Moondi Klein In 1994 & Disbanding Five Years Later

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Tatiana Hargreaves

She Left Me Standing On The Mountain
Started Out To Ramble 2009 via Patuxent Music
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Guest Musicians: Sarah Jarosz & Bruce Molsky - Fourteen-Year Old Appalachian Influenced Fiddler

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Taarka

The Bouncing Tale
Making Tracks Home 2015 via Taarka
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Husband/Wife Duo Enion And David Tiller

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Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms

You Didn't Have To Go
Oh Do You Remember 2012 via West Side Sounds
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Listen For Songs From Their New Album, "innocent Road," Here On 'YCE - Founding Members Of The Foghorn String Band (Still Active)

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Charlie Poole And The North Carolina Ramblers

Took My Gal Out Walkin' [1929]
You Aint' Talking To Me: Charlie Poole And The Roots Of Country Music 2011 via Sony
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Randolph Country, NC - Successful Five Year Recording Career Beginning In 1925 - the Band's Music Has Been Covered By The Chieftains, Hot Tuna, Loudon Wainwright lll And The Grateful Dead

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