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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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Reese Wynans

Riviera Paradise
Sweet Release 2019 via J&R Adventures
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Midge Williams And Her Jazz Jesters

Oh Miss Hannah [1939]
The Complete Midge Williams 2001 via Swing Time
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Highly-Respected Swing and Jazz Singer Of The 1930's And '40's Slipping Into Obscurity After 1945

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Lula Pena

Breviario
Archivo Pittoresco 2017 via Crammed
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Portuguese Fado Singer - Fado: A Music Genre That Can Be Traced To The 1820's In Lisbon, Portugal

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The Red Clay Ramblers

The Old Jawbone/Man Of The House
Yonder 1997 via Red Clay Ramblers
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Durham, NC 1972

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9:40 am

Bonita And The Blues Shacks

Satisfy My Soul
Bonita And The Blues Shacks 2015 via Blues Shacks Music
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The Blues Shacks Are From Germany; Bonita Niesson From South Africa Reworking Buddy Johnson's Vintage 1930's Blues Classic

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Bob Weir

Playing In The Band
Ace 1972 via Warner Bros. Records
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Weir's Debut Solo; Backing Band Was The Dead itself, Minus Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - All The Tunes On "Ace" Except For One Became Concert Staples Of The Grateful Dead

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Cochemea

Asatoma
All My Relations 2019 via Daptone
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Fifteen Years Of Touring With Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings

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Hugh Coltman

Sleep In Late
Who's Happy _ 2019 via Okeh/Sony
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9:20 am

Albert Ammons

Mighty Blues [1938]
Albert Ammons: A Retrospective 2014 via GRR
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Ammons Influence Is Heard In The Playing Style Of Jerry Lee Lewis, Dave Alexander, Dr..John, Hadda Brooks, Johnnie Johnson, Ray Bryant, Erroll Garner, And Katie Webster, Just to Name A Few

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Michael Reno Harrell

The Nickel
Closer Home 2003 via Dancing Bear
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Award-Winning Southern Appalachian Mountains Raised Singer/Songwriter; A Consummate Troubadour With A Story In His Song

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The Armstrong Family

Lay the Bent
The Wheel Of The Year- Thirty Years with The Armstrong Family 1992 via Flying Fish Records
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COMPILATIONS

Sweet Glories Rush Upon My Sight
Back Roads to Cold Mountain 2004 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Old Regular Baptists - A Tradition Of Singing That Dates From The 16th Century; One Of The Oldest And Deepest Veins Of The English/Scots/Irish-Based American Melodic Traditions

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9:00 am

Vandoliers

Bottom Dollar Boy
Forever 2019 via Bloodshot Records
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Six-Piece Out Of Dallas-Fort Worth

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Maria Muldaur

Here's a Little Girl from Jackson
Don't You Feel My Leg 2019 via Last Music Company
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Blu Lu Barker, 1949

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John McCutcheon

Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
To Everyone In All The World 2019 via Independent
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For His Fortieth Album, Six-Time Grammy Nominee John McCutcheon Delivers An Album Fifty Years In The Making - A Tip Of The Hat To Pete Seeger

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Shawn Colvin

Set the Prairie on Fire
Fat City 1992 via Sony
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Vermilion, SD - Celebrating Number Sixty-Three A Few Weeks Ago - Relocated To NYC In 1980 Joining The Buddy Miller Band, And Becoming Involved In The Fast Folk Cooperative Of Greenwich Village - Multiple Awards Winner In A Highly Successful Thirty-Year Plus Career

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8:40 am

George "Little Hat" Jones

Rolled From Side To Side Blues [1929]
Texas Blues Guitar (1929-1935) 1987 via RST
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The Blues Spotlight: During The 1920's, Little Hat Jones Spent Time On The Streets Of San Antonio Busking For A Living, Played The Fish Fries and Juke Joint Circuits With Texas Alexander And J.T. Smith. A Fine Singer With A Strong Guitar Technique, But He Had A Habit Of Starting His Songs Very Quickly,Slowing Down Drastically When He Started To Sing, And Then Arriving At Some Kind Of Compromise As The Song Went On. He Turned This Fault Into A Virtue Insofar As It Made Some Of His Recordings Quite Distinctive. The Record Companies Weren't To Impressed,Only Giving Jones A Ten Song Deal, Making Up His Entire Recorded Catalog. George "Little Hat" Jones Passed On In 1981, And Remains A Small Footnote In The Story Of The Blues

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George "Little Hat" Jones

Little Hat Blues [1929]
Bye Bye Baby Blues 2015 via Document
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The Blues Spotlight: October 5, 1899 Texas - March 7, 1981 Texas

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Hank Jones Trio

Squeeze Me
Ain't Misbehavin' 1978 via Fantasy
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Richard Davis, Double Bass...Roy Haynes, Drums...Hank Jones, Piano

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8:20 am

Greg Brown

Walkin' Daddy
Covenant 2000 via Red House

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Della Mae

Bluebird Blackbird
The Butcher Shoppe EP 2019 via Rounder
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Della Mae Flexing Its' Collective Muscle On The Merle Travis Classic; Featuring Guest Pickers Alison Brown, Molly Tuttle & Avril Smith Laying Down Six Tracks In a One Day Session At Nashville's Historic Butcher Shoppe Recording Studio

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Who Hit John

Possum Stomp
Heirloom 2009 via Hey Burner! Records
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Kalamazoo, MI

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charley pride

You're Still in These Crazy Arms
Music in My Heart 2019 via Music City Records
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The New One From A Country Legend - Charley Is Celebrating Number 85 In A Few Days

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Berzilla Wallin

Love Has Brought Me Despair
Old Love Songs And Ballad From The Big Laurel, North Carolina 1965 via Smithsonian Folkways
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The Matriarch Of An American Family Of Traditional Ballad Singers from Madison County, NC

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Jim Avett

Naomi
Tribes 2008 via Ramseur Records
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Daughter Bonnie On Vocals

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8:00 am