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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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Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra

Accelerate
World Of Funk 2011 via Ubiquity
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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COMPILATIONS

Girl From The North Country
Epilogue_A Tribute To John Duffey 2018 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Wonderful Tribute Album From Smithsonian Folkways To Bluegrass Legend John Duffey (Country Gentlemen, Seldom Scene)

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Tony Joe White

Boom Boom
Bad Nuthin' 2018 via Swamp Records
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Swampy Reworking John Lee Hooker

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Rory Block

Weeping Willow Blues
A Woman's Soul_ A Tribute To Bessie Smith 2018 via Stony Plain
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Bessie Smith, 1927

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9:40 am
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Tarika

Ragoaika
Bibiango 1994 via Xenophile Records
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Led By A Sister Duo From Madagascar

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(REQUESTED)

Steve Goodman

City Of New Orleans
Live Wire 2000 via columbia
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Classic Goodman

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(REQUESTED)

Count Basie

Didn't You
April In Paris 1956 via Verve
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The Count Rules!

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Boz Scaggs

Little Miss Night and Day
Out Of The Blues 2018 via Concord
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Boz Is Back...Very Cool Release

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9:20 am

Tab Benoit

Twenty-Nine Ways to My Baby's Door
These Blues Are All Mine 1999 via Vanguard Records
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Composer: Willie Dixon, 1956

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Sugar Pie Desanto

Crazy Lovin' [1959]
In Chess Basement: The Chess Recordings 2017 via chess
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Lifelong Friends With Etta James, Toured With The Johnny Otis Revue And Later With James Brown

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Joseph Spence

Out On The Rolling Sea
Happy All The Time 1964 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Influential Bahamian Guitar Master Recorded By Folklorist Sam Charters On Andros Island In 1958

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Punch Brothers

Three Dots and a Dash
All Ashore 2018 via Nonesuch
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Fresh Into 'YCE

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9:00 am

Clifton Chenier

Hard To Love Someone
King Of The Bayous 1992 via Zydeco Music
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Multi-Award Winner - Known As The King of Zydeco

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Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

Front Porch Trained
So Delicious 2015 via Shanachie
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Compelling Trio Out Of Southern Indiana

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Tracyanne & Danny

Alabama
Tracyanne & Danny 2018 via Merge
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The Brothers Comatose

Love By Degrees
Ink, Dust & Luck 2018 via AntiFragile
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Five-Piece String Band Melding Their Own Special Brand Of West Coast Rootsy Renderings

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Melissa Carper & Rebecca Patek

Sweet Peach
Brand New Old Time Songs 2018 via Independent
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First Recording Together

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8:40 am

Skip James

One Dime All I Had
Rare and Unreleased 2003 via Vanguard
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The Haunting Quality Of Skip James's Music Earned Him A Reputation As One Of The Great Early Mississippi Bluesmen. Growing Up On A Plantation, Skip's First Recording Session Came In 1931. These Songs Sold Poorly Having Been Released During The Great Depression, And James Drifted Into Obscurity. An Inspiration To Robert Johnson, Skip's Long Absence From the Public Eye Ended In 1964; Rediscovered During The Folk And Blues Revival. Inducted Into The Blues Hall Of Fame In 1992 and Hailed As One Of The Seminal Figures Of The Blues, Nehemiah James Passed On In 1969

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Skip James

Cypress Grove Blues
The Complete Early Recordings Of Skip James 1994 via Yazoo
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June 9, 1902 Mississippi - October 9, 1969 Philadelphia

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Chick Corea & The Steve Gadd Band

Chinese Butterfly
Chinese Butterfly 2018 via Corea LTD
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Steve Wilson, Saxophone...Luis Quintero, Percussion...Lionel Loueke, Guitar...Carlitos Del Puerto, Bass...Steve Gadd, Drums...Chick Corea, Piano

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8:20 am

Charley Crockett

Lil' Girl's Name
Lonesome As A Shadow 2018 via Thirty Tigers
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Appearing The Weekend Of 9/7 At Wheatland; Taking The Stage On Saturday And Sunday (Remus, MI)

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The Slocan Ramblers

Just To Know
Queen City Jubilee 2018 via Slocan
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Fresh Canadian Grass

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Alison Krauss & Union Station

Two Highways
Two Highways 1989 via Rounder
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Turning Forty-Seven Tomorrow, And 'YCE Celebrates With Alison Honoring Her As The 'YCE Artist Of The Day

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Vivian Leva

Cold Mountains
Time Is Everything 2018 via Vivan Leva
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Featuring Longtime Collaborator Riley Calcagno

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Eliza Gilkyson

Down by the Riverside
Secularia 2018 via Compass
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Lovely Interpretation Of A Song Whose Roots Date Back To Pre-Civil War

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8:00 am