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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 Turbans

Ruuah
The Turbans 2018 via Six Degrees
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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COMPILATIONS

One Too Many Mornings
Tangled Up In Blues- Songs Of Bob Dylan 1999 via House of Blues
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Rick Danko, Vocals - The Band Keeps It True On This Dylan Gem From "The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964 - Of Note: The Band Back Dylan On the Live 1966 Tour; Danko Providing Harmony Vocals On "One Too Many Mornings.

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(REQUESTED)

Van Morrison

Ain't Gonna Moan No More
The Prophet Speaks 2018 via Caroline
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Morrison's Fortieth Studio Album finds the Seventy-Three Year Old At The Top Of His Game; An Outstanding Album Continuing A Longtime Collaboration With Joey DeFrancesco

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9:40 am
(REQUESTED)

Honey Island Swamp Band

Chocolate Cake
Good to You 2010 via Independent
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Online Stream Suggestion - Hurricane Katrina Displaced The Founding Members Leaving Them Marooned In San Francisco, Hooking With Two Other Crescent City Evacuees At John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom Room; Scoring The Weekly Sunday Night Slot; Soon A Favorite Of Bay Area Roots Music Lovers

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Clifford Hayes And The Dixieland Jug Blowers

Hey! I'm Blue [1926]
Clifford Hayes And The Dixieland Jug Band 2005 via Document
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Influential Jug Band Of The 1920's, Impacting Those That Followed In Its Wake - Created By The Commingling Of Two separate Groups Run By Jug Player Earl McDonald, And Fiddler Clifford Hayes

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Kay Starr

My Honey's Lovin' Arms
Jazz Singer 1960 via Capitol
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Joined By The Van Alexander Orchestra - One Of The Great 'Girl Singers' Of The Big Band Era, Kay Starr Was Blessed With A Husky, Saloon-Type Singing Style, And A Swagger That Crisscrossed Multiple Musical Genres; Starr could Swing With The Best Of them

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Leroy Thomas And The Zydeco Roadrunners

Your Turn To Lose
Jewel Of The Bayou 2010 via Maison de Soul
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Lake Charles, LA - Accompanied By Long-Time Band, "The Zydeco Roadrunners, Thomas Stirs Up A Spicy Gumbo Of Traditional Zydeco and Cajun With Sn Innovative Funky, Hard-Driving Sound

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Greensky Bluegrass

Like Reflections
All for Money 2019 via Big Blue Zoo
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Forthcoming Seventh Album 1/18/19 - The Kalamazoo 'Grassers Begin An Extensive U.S. Tour December 29th With A Two-Night Stand Scheduled For The Fillmore In Detroit 2/8&9

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9:20 am

The Lovin' Spoonful

Jug Band Music
Daydream 1966 via Reprise
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Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Honorees (2000) - Deep Roots In The Folk Music Scene Based In Greenwich Village In the Early 1960's - The Band's Name Was Inspired By a Few Lines In The Song "Coffee Blues" By Mississippi John Hurt

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Luther Dickinson

Bye And Bye Going To See The King
God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson 2016 via Alligator
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Featuring The Rising Star Fife And Drum Band - Predating The American Civil War, The Song Is Known Under A Variety Of Titles; Recorded Seven Times Before 1930, Most Notably The Arizona Dranes,1927 And Blind Willie Johnson,1929

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The Lucky Losers

Make A Right Turn
Blind Spot 2018 via Berkowita Music
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Produced By Kid Anderson - Multi-Award Honorees Cathy Lemons & Phil Berkowitz With A Modern Day Twist On The Band That Was Highly Influential To Them, Dan Hicks And the Hot Licks

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John Doe & The Sadies

Stop the World and Let Me Off
Country Club 2009 via Yep Roc Records
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First Recorded By Patsy Cline In 1957 - Waylon Did it Nine Years Later And Haggard Three Years After That - Fast Forward Forty Years And Fine Reworking By John Doe And the Sadies

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Cookie & the Cupcakes

Mary Lou Doin' The Pop-Eye
Kings Of Swamp Pop 1967 via Shuffle Records
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Started Playing As The Boogie Ramblers In 1953, The Featured House Band At The Moulin Rouge Club In Lake Charles, LA - Toured with Jerry Lee Lewis And Fats Domino; Disbanding In 1965

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Garmana

Antiokia
Vittrad (Withered) 1994 via Northside
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Founded, 1990 - Swedish Folk Rock Band Specializing In Mainly Old Scandinavian Ballads Played With Traditional Instruments

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9:00 am

Nathan Kalish

Chain Gang
Delicate Veins 2010 via Independent
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New Tunes From Nathan's Latest Release Are Heard Here On 'YCE

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Surfer Joe And the Dreadrocks

The South Swell
Amsterdam Beatclub: The Best Place To Go! Go! Vol. 2 2018 via Sonic Rendevouz
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Amsterdam BeatClub Is One Of The Prominent Organisations In The Netherlands For Promoting The Great 50's/60's Music. To Celebrate Fifteen Years Doing Just That Comes the Second Release In An Ongoing Series

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Mulebone

You Don't Love Me
Mulebone Live - Made In The Mitten 2018 via Independent
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Recorded In July During A Fourteen-Date Trip Through Michigan - Hugh Pool And John Ragusa Originally Formed In 1996 to Play A One-Time Festival On Nantucket island - Here, Mulebone Reworks Willie Cobbs (1960), Himself Adapting The Melody From A Bo Diddley Song

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Rising Appalachia

Wider Circles
Wider Circles 2015 via Independent
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Leah And Chloe Smith Bring A World Of Global Influences To Their Art Based Somewhere Between Southern appalachia And New Orleans

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Pat Donohue

(The Other End Of) The Mississippi River Blues
Back Roads 1996 via Red House Records
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St. Paul, MN - National Fingerpicking Guitar Champion Songwriter, Performing On A Prairie Home Companion For Several Years

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8:40 am

Leroy Dallas

Jump Little Children Jump [1952]
Rub A Little Boogie: New York Blues 1945-1956 2010 via JSP
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Blues Spotlight: Born In Alabama, Leroy Dallas Travelled The South In The 30's And 40's, Teaming Up For A Time With Georgia Bluesman Frank Edwards, Sang On The Chicago Streets Before Relocating To New York City In 1943. The 1949 Recordings For Sittin' In With, Are In A Small Group Format With Brownie McGhee, and Big Chief Ellis; Bearing Little Sign Of Urbanization. 'Jump Little Children, Jump', Was a Favorite Among The Great Blues Shouters. By 1962, Leroy Dallas Had Ceased To Play Professionally; Passing On In 1967

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Leroy Dallas

I'm Going Away [1948]
Good Morning Blues 2015 via Jade Records
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Blues Spotlight: December 24, 1909 Alabama - September ? 1967 New York

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Steve Turre

Woody & Bu
Right There 1991 via Antilles
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'820' Jazz: Benny Green, Piano...Wynton Marsalis, Trumpet...Benny Golson, Tenor Sax...Billy Higgins, Drums...Andy Gonzalez, Bass...Steve Turre, Trombone

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8:20 am

Charley Crockett

Travelin' Blues
Lil G.L.'s Blue Bonanza 2018 via Son Of Davy/Thirty Tigers
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This Album Pays Tribute To Crockett's Busking Days, And Is Stocked With His Own Interpretations Of Old-School Country Songs And Half-Forgotten Blues Gems

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Rhonda Vincent

One Step Ahead Of The Blues
One Step Ahead 2003 via Rounders
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Scheduled For The Milan Bluegrass Festival 8/3

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Sons Of Ralph

Ramblin' Kind
Mountain Boy 2003 via Root Records
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Asheville, NC

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Premo & Gustavsson

Nostalgipolska
I Walked Abroad 2016 via Independent
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Jammie Award Honoree

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Mike Seeger And Peggy Seeger

Cindy
Fly Down Little Bird 2011 via Appleseed
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Appalachian Folk Song Passed Down Through Oral Tradition During The Early Part Of The 20th Century -

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Dirk Powell

Sweet Goes The Whistle
Walking Through Clay 2014 via Sugar Hill
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Considered One Of The World's Leading Experts On Traditional Appalachian Fiddle And Banjo Styles - Currently On Tour With Joan Baez

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