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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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COMPILATIONS

Eyrie
The Thousand Incarnations Of The Rose_ American Primitive Guitar & Banjo 1963-1974 2018 via Craft Recordings
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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(REQUESTED)

Van Morrison And Joey DeFrancesco

Everyday I Have The Blues
You're Driving Me Crazy 2018 via Exile Productions
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Street Date: 4/27 - A Blues Standard First Performed And Recorded By Pinetop Sparks With Henry Townsend On Guitar,1935 (St. Louis)

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Sarah Shook & The Disarmers

Over You
Years 2018 via Bloodshot
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Sarah Shook & The Disarmers Are A Country Band With A Sneer, A Bite, And No Apologies; So Refreshing!

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Phil Madeira

Wicked Job
Providence 2018 via Mercyland Records
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Fresh Music Into 'YCE

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9:40 am
(REQUESTED)

Hot Tuna

San Francisco Bay Blues
2004-02-12 Cactus Cafe, Austin, TX 2011 via Hot Tuna Ltd.
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Jorma And Jack With Cindy Cashdollar Reworking What Is Considered The Most Famous Composition By American Folk Musician And One-Man Band, Jesse Fuller (1954)

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Ry Cooder

Prodigal Son
Prodigal Son: In Studio Session 2018 via Perro Verde
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Street Date: 5/11 - Appearing: The Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor 6/22

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Buena Vista Social Club

Amor de Loca Juventud
Buena Vista Social Club 1997 via Nonesuch
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Producer: Ry Cooder - An Ensemble Of Cuban Musicians Established In 1996 To Revive The Music Of Pre-Revolutionary Cuba, Named The Group After The Homonymous Members' Club In The Buenavista Quarter Of Havana, A Popular Music Venue In The 1940's; Recruiting A Dozen Veteran Musicians, Many Of Whom Had Been Retired For Years

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9:20 am
(REQUESTED)

Billie Holiday

I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues [1939]
The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes 2005 via Verve
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First Recording In 1932 By Ethel Merman, And Perhaps The Most Definitive Reading By Billy Holiday Seven Years Later; The Song Is A Jazz Standard

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Woody Pines

Who Told Ya
Rabbits Motel 2013 via Independent
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Down Home Swing From The Back Roads Of American Music

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Woody Guthrie

Talking Fishing Blues [1945]
The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 1999 via Smithsonian Folkways
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The Asch Recordings, Recorded In 1944 And 1945, Are Possibly The Most Famous Recordings Of Woody Guthrie, Conducted By Moe Asch In New York City (105 Songs)

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Ginny Hawker

The Gospel Ship Has Long Been Sailing
Letters from my Father 2001 via Rounder Select
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Legendary Blue Ridge Mountains Singer & Educator Celebrating Number 78 In A Few Days

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Spoonful Of Blues: Big Bill Broonzy/Blind John Davis/Washboard Sam

Night Watchman Blues [1941]
Big Bill's blues 2010 via Roots
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Big Bill Broonzy Was A John The Baptist Figure In The Scripture Of The Blues: A Charismatic Fore-Runner Of Greater Things To Come, Taking The Sound Of Early Chicago Blues Bands Out Of The Windy City Across The Country, And Eventually To Europe Where He Planted A Seed That Came Back In The British Invasion Of The 1960's To Revolutionize Popular Music In America And Around The World. Big Bill Was Born In 1893 Mississippi, And Passed On Sixty-Two Years Later (1958)

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Spoonful Of Blues: Big Bill Broonzy

Skoodle Do Do
Big Bill Broonzy Vol. 1, 1927-1932 2005 via Document
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June 26,1903 Mississippi - August, 14, 1958 Illinois

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9:00 am

Bob Dylan

Black Diamond Bay
Desire 1975 via Columbia
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Forty-Two Years Ago Bob Dylan Unleashed Desire, Arguably The Most Complicated Record Of His Career, Featuring The Same Caravan Of Musicians As The Acclaimed Rolling Thunder Revue Tours

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The New Basement Tapes

Hidee Hidee Ho #11
Lost On The River 2014 via Harvest
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Producer: T-Bone Burnett - Jim James, Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford, Taylor Goldsmith And Rhiannon Giddens - The Recording Consists Of Tracks Based On Newly Uncovered Lyrics Handwritten By Bob Dylan In 1967

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Barbara Dane

It Isn't Nice
Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard Hitting Songs 2018 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Detroit, MI - One Of The True Unsung Heroes Of American Music - Miss Dane Turns 91 In A Couple Of Weeks

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Townes Van Zandt

Quicksilver Daydreams Of Maria
Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings 2001 via Tomato
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Guests: Freddy Fender, Augie Meyers, Doug Sahm And Rubin Ramos & The Texas Revolution

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8:40 am

Victor Wainwright

Boogie Depression
Victor Wainwright & The Train 2018 via Ruf
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An Award Winning Musician & Producer In The World's Blues And Roots Music Scene

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The Red Sea Pedestrians

Take Back The Sun
See Through the Eyes of Osiris 2016 via Earthworks
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Appearing: Centennial Hall, Grand Haven 4/27

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'820' Jazz Presents: The Willis Jackson Quintet

Cool Grits
A One Day Session 1959 via Concord
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Bill Jennings, Guitar...Jack McDuff, Hammond B-3...Tommy Potter, Bass...Alvin Johnson, Drums...Willis Jackson, Tenor Sax

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8:20 am

John Prine

Crazy as a Loon
Fair & Square 2005 via Oh Boy
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No One Better At His Craft

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The Stanley Brothers And The Clinch Mountain boys

Maple On The Hill
The Complete Mercury Recordings 2003 via Mercury
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Ralph & Carter, Vintage Bluegras

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Emmylou Harris

I'll Go Stepping Too
Roses in the Snow 1980 via Warner Brothers
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J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers

Train 111
I'm Gonna Live anyhow Until I Die: Alan Lomax's Southern Journey 2011 via Odysseyy
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The Link Between Gid Tanner And Bill Monroe

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The Driftwood Singers

Come Across The Tracks
The Driftwood Singers 2012 via Trailer Fire
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Kris Hutson & Pearl Charles, Pocahontas, WV

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8:00 am