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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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Jyotsna Srikanth

Varnam
Call Of Bangalore 2013 via World Music Network
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week.

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Yellow Magic Orchestra

Tighten Up (Japanese Gentlemen Stand Up Please)
YMO 1979 via Alfa
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Undercover: Archie Bell And the Drells, 1968

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Madcat & Kane

Rollin' and Tumblin'
Key To The Highway 1993 via Schoolkids Records
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Ann Arbor, MI - The Duo Of Peter Madcat Ruth And Shari Kane, Had An Amazing 24 Year Run

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Chrissie Hynde & the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble

You Don't Know What Love Is
Valve Bone Woe 2019 via BMG
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Undercover: Chet Baker, 1954

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9:40 am

Paul Cauthen

Angel
Room 41 2019 via Lightning Rod
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Texas Troubadour Nicknamed Big Velvet - Written During A Roughly Two-Year Stint Spent Living Out Of A Suitcase In Dallas' Belmont Hotel

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Lotte Lenya And Louis Armstrong

Mack The Knife
Lotte Lenya: American Theater Songs 1999 via Capitol
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Composed For The Stage Production Of "Threepenney Opera", In Which Miss Lenya Was Cast As Jenny, Proving to Be Her Breakthrough Role - In 1963, Portrayed The Murderous And Sadistic Rosa Klebb In "From Russia With Love"

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COMPILATIONS

Million Miles
Tangled Up In Blues- Songs Of Bob Dylan 1999 via House of Blues
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Alvin Youngblood Heart - Find Dylan's Original Version On "Time Out Of Mind" (1997)

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Pegi Young & The Survivors

Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
Raw 2017 via Baltimore Thrush
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Reworking Ray Charles

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9:20 am

Vinicius Cantuaria & Bill Frisell

Lagrimas Mexicanas
Lágrimas Mexicana 2011 via E One Music
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Brazilian Composer, Percussionist - Pioneer Of Neo-Brazilian Music Collaborating With Artists As Eclectic As Brian Eno And Laurie Anderson to Bill Frisell And Brad Mehldau

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Rhiannon Giddens And Francesco Turrisi

Briggs' Foro
There Is No Other 2019 via Nonesuch
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First Collaboration

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Loreena McKennitt

The Mystic's Dream
Live in Paris and Toronto 1999 via Valley
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9:00 am

The Bobby Tenderloin Universe

That's All I'm Sayin'
The Bobby Tenderloin Universe 2019 via Keeping On
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Appearing With Orville Peck At The GR's Pyramid Scheme 10/6

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The Misty Mountain String Band

Steam Powered Aero Plane
Brownsboro 2014 via Misty Mountain Music
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Four Kentucky Pickers Re-Working The Great John Hartford - Taking Influences From Across The Roots Spectrum - Even Finding Time To Jam With The Louisville Philharmonic

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The Jayhawks

It's Up To You
Sound Of Lies 1997 via American Recordings
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Emerging From The Twin Cities Roots Music Scene During The Mid-1980's - Highly Influential On Many Bands, Such As The Gear Daddies And Honeydogs; Heard Here On 'YCE

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Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop

Midas Tongue
Love Letter For Fire 2016 via Sub Pop
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Luka Bloom

My Wild Irish Rose
Head & Heart 2014 via Compass
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Composed In 1947

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8:40 am
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Roscoe Gordon And His Orchestra

T-Model Boogie [1953]
Yellow Sun Blues 2006 via Sun
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Rosco Gordon Was A Memphis Pianist Who Developed An Off-Beat Shuffle That Gave His Work A Distinctive Flavor, A Sound That Went On To Be Very Influential In Ska And Reggae Music When Rosco's Records Made It To Jamaica. In The Late 1940's Gordon, Along With Johnny Ace, Bobby Bland And B.B. King Founded The Beale Streeters. Ike Turner Scouted Gordon And Turned Him Onto Sam Phillips, Recording For Sun Records During The Early 1950's. Roscoe Gordon Would Record For Several Labels Over The Years Eventually Relocating To New York City, Passing On In 2002

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Roscoe Gordon

Shoobie Oobie [1956]
Sun Records 60th Anniversary 2012 via Sun
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April 10,1928 Tennessee - July 11, 2002 New York

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Bobby Hutcherson

If I Would Ever Leave You
The Kicker 1963 via Blue Note
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Bob Cranshaw, Bass...Duke Pearson, Piano...Al Harewood, Drums...Joe Henderson, Tenor Sax...Bobby Hutcherson, Vibraphone - - - - - - A 1963 Recording but Not Released On Blue Note Label Until 1999. This Is The Quintessential Harp Bop Session; The Quintet Firing On All Cylinders, Laying Down A Solid Groove - This One Cooks!

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8:20 am

The Bootstrap Boys

The Man I Am
Between The Hat & The Boots 2019 via Independent
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Roger Miller

Footprints In The Snow
50 Hits 2016 via Miller Music
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An English Music Hall Song Written By Harry Wright In 1880 Under The Title "Footmarks In The Snow"

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Good Ol' Persons

Travelin' Blues
Good 'N' Live 2006 via Sugar Hill
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Kathy Kallick Re-Forming The Band For A Few Reunion Shows

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Kukuruza

The Wanderer
Crossing Borders 1993 via Sugarhill
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Russian Folk Band Mixing In The Flavors Of American Roots; To Date The Only Eastern European Group To Play The Grand Ole Opry

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Colter Wall

Transcendent Ramblin' Railroad Bl
Colter Wall 2017 via Young Mary's Record Co
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