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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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Tom Rigney

House of the Rising Sun
A Blue Thing 2004 via Parhelion
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The Songs Roots Has It's Origin In The Sixteenth Century - Oldest Known Recording, 1933

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The Wild Tchoupitoulas

Hey Mama
Brothers John 1976 via Mango
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Formed By George Landry In The Early 1970's - Landry's Nephews The Neville Brothers Appear On The Album

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Naomi Shelton

What More Can I Do
What Have You Done My Brother 2009 via Daptone
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Frank Sinatra

Learnin' The Blues [1955]
Ultimate Sinatra 2015 via Universal
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Frank With The Nelson Riddle Orchestra - Initially Published As A B Side On The EP, "Session With Sinatra"

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9:40 am
30th Anniversary Fund Drive (click for more info)

WYCE's Spring Fund Drive is on its way - Friday, April 21st through 28th! - as we take a look back in celebration of 30 years of listener-powered music radio in West Michigan!

The unique music variety we've shared for three decades is made possible 100% by donations by our listener sponsors... We need you to keep doing your part! 

We receive no funds from any university, religious organization, or from the government. So tune in April 21st through 28th to make your financial contribution! 

It's not too early to donate online at WYCE dot org! Your early gift may be used as challenge funds - encouraging others to give during the drive - motivating those individuals to take the big step from listener -- to listener-sponsor!

Rising Appalachia

Cluck Ol' Hen
Filthy Dirty South 2012 via Rising Appalachia
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Leah & Chloe Smith Melding Southern Appalachia And New Orleans Working With An Array Of International Musicians Creating A Full Mix Of Fertile Sounds

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Shari Kane and Dave Steele

Can't Keep A Secret
Four Hand Blues 2011 via Big Bones Music
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Appearing 6/17 At The Buttermilk Jamboree, Circle Pines Center Delton, MI

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Malcolm Holcombe

South Hampton Street
Pretty Little Troubles 2017 via Singular Recordings
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Asheville, NC - Belongs To A Tradition Of Bardic Singer-Songwriters; A Latter Day Elizabethan Poet Troubadour Of Barrooms, Ragged Towns And Coal Miner Shacks - "This Is A Very Good Album," Robb M

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9:20 am

Caroline Dahl

Swanee River Boogie
Night Music 2003 via Caroline Dahl
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Louisville, KY - Based In San Francisco the Past Thirty Years - An Occasional Pianist For Tom Rigney And Flambeau

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COMPILATIONS

What's That Tastes Like Gravy
Rough Guide to Jug Band Blues 2017 via World Music Network
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King David's Jug Band Recorded This In 1930; The Second Of Only Two Songs Known To Exist Recorded During One Session - On This Song, The Sound Of The Kazoo Is Actually Played Through a Stovepipe

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Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard

The One I Love Is Gone [1973]
Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass 1996 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Composer: Bill Monroe, 1954 Never Recorded It But Taught The Melody To Alice & Hazel - This Album Is a Re-Issue Of A Mid 1960's Session

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The Flatlanders

Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown [1972]
More a Legend Than A Band 1991 via Rounder
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Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely & Butch Hancock - Originally Only A Few Copies Released On 8-Track Tape; Shelved Until 1991 - These Guys Were Outside The Nashville Norm

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc & Merle Watson

Slidin' Delta
Down South 1984 via Flying Fish
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Producer: Merle Watson - Doc & Merle Reworking Mississippi John Hurt

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc & Merle Watson

What A Friend We Have In Jesus
Down South 1984 via Flying Fish
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Written As a Poem By Joseph M. Schriven, 1855; The Tune To The Hymn Composed By Charles Crozat Converse, 1868

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9:00 am

Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi

Sonny & Brownie's Last Train
Sonny & Brownie's Last Train 2017 via M.C. records
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Mining The Gems From The Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Songbook

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Bill Miller

You Are the Rain
Spirit Rain 2002 via Paras Recording
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Miller's Mohican Name Is Fush-Ya Heay Aka (Meaning "Bird Song")

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Milagro Saints

Roadside Madonna
Sunday 2003 via Milagro saints
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Gretchen Peters, Suzy Boggus And Matraca Berg

Hammer And Nail
Folk Alley Sessions At 30A: Wine, Women & Song 2017 via Courtesy Of Folk Alley & Beehive Productions
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Suzy Boggus, Gretchen Peters & Matraca Berg - Suzy, Lead Vocal; Gretchen, Mandolin; Matraca, Harmonica

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Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch, Fats Kaplin

Highland Mary
Kane Welch Kaplin 2007 via Compass
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Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch & Fats Kaplin

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8:40 am
Promo - Concert Calendar (click for more info)

Check out "WYCE dot org" to stay in tune with Grand Rapids area concerts. 

Our online concerts and events calendar lets you know the best local spots to hear live music by WYCE-approved musicians.

Please send concert listings to calendars@wyce.org

Concert Calendar is a free service of Grand Rapids Community Media Center.

Spoonful Of Blues: Robert Johnson

Stop Breaking Down Blues [Take 1, 1936]
King Of The Delta Blues 1997 via Sony
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May 8, 1911 Mississippi - August 16, 1938 Missippi

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Spoonful Of Blues: Robert Johnson

Travelin' Riverside Blues [Alternate Take, 1937]
King Of The Delta Blues Singers 1961 via Sony
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Little Commercial Success Or Recognition during His Lifetime - An Itinerant Performer, His Influence Resonates To This Day

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'820 Jazz Presents: The Sonny Rollins Quintet

The House I Live In
Rollins Plays For Bird (RVG Remaster) 1956 via Prestige
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George Morrow, Bass...Wade Legge, Piano...Kenny Dorham, Trumpet...Max Roach, Drums...Sonny Rollins, Tenor Sax

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8:20 am

Tim O'Brien

High Flying Bird
Where The River Meets The Road 2017 via Howdy Skies Records
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Stuart Duncan, Noam Pilkeny & Chris Stapelton On The Track

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Becky Buller

Speakin' To That Mountain
Crepe Paper Heart 2017 via Dark Shadow Recording
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Appearance: Milan Bluegrass Festival 8/3 Milan, MI

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Lawson & Williams

I'll Still Write Your Name In The
Chapter 3 2017 via Mountain Home Music Co.
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J.D. Crowe Has Retired From The Trio; Doyle & Paul Continue On

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Jim & Jesse And The Virginia Boys

Paradise
The Jim & Jesse Story 2007 via CMH
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Years Active; 1945-2002 - Upon Jim's Passing In 2002, The Had Brothers Performed Together For 55 Years - At Age 89, Jesse Still Plays The Occasional Music Festivals

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The Ephemeral Stringband ft. Tatiana Hargreaves

Ruby Ridge
Land Of Rest 2014 via Ephemeral Stringband
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Eleven-Day Seige In 1992 Near Naples, ID

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Mandolin Orange

Gospel Shoes
Blindfaller 2016 via Yep Roc
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Philosophical Renderings From Andrew Marlin & Emily Frantz

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