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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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Poncho Sanchez

The Feeling of Jazz
Trane's Delight 2019 via Concord
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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North Mississippi Allstars

Living Free
Up And Rolling 2019 via New West
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Another Great Album!

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Frankie Laine

Jezebel
The Essential Frankie Laine 2014 via Columbia
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1951 Recording With Mitch Miller - Refers To The Biblical Woman Jezebel, A Wicked, Baal-Worshipping Phoenician Princess Who Ruled Israel As Queen To King Ahab. Jezebel's Story Is Recounted In I Kings, A Book Of The Old Testament.

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Madeleine Peyroux

River of Tears
Bare Bones 2009 via Rounder / Umgd
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Athens, GA - Began Her Career As A Teenager On The Streets Of Paris Joining A Vintage Jazz Group Called The Riverboat Shufflers, Then The Lost Wandering Blues And Jazz Band, With Whom She Toured Europe - Peyroux's Vocal Style Is Compared To That Of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, And Edith Piaf

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9:40 am

Rising Appalachia and The Human Experience

Stromboli (Remix)
Single 2019 via Slow Down
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The Ark, Ann Arbor 11/15

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Leonard Cohen

Lover, Lover, Lover
Songs From The Road 2010 via Columbia
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Online Suggestion

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Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley

Suzanne
World Full Of Blues 2019 via Compass
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Fresh Into 'YCE

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Bob Dylan

Tell Me It Isn't True
Travelin' Thru 1967-1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 2019 via Columbia
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Street Date: 11/1 - Revisits Dylan's Pivotal Musical Journeys To Nashville From 1967 To 1969, Focusing On Previously Unavailable Recordings Made With Johnny Cash, And Unreleased Tracks From The John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, And Self Portrait Sessions

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9:20 am
Barn Theatre: Rocky (click for more info)

Support for WYCE is provided by the Barn Theatre School. 


Barn Theatre School presents cult stage classic "The Rocky Horror Show" for a special engagement with 2 weekends of show dates - October 18th through 27th. 

Dedicated fans are welcomed to come to the Barn in costume and dance "The Time Warp" 

Tickets and information at barn theatre school dot org.
(REQUESTED)

Dion and the Belmonts

The Wanderer
The Best Of 2005 via EMI
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Online Suggestion

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The Quebe Sisters

Summer Of Roses
The Quebe Sisters 2019 via Independent
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Fifteen Years On, Self-Titled Fourth Album - Grace, Sophia, And Hulda Front An Innovative Progressive Western Swing Band. The Dallas-Based Five-Piece Presents A Unique Americana Blend Of Western Swing, Jazz-influenced Swing, Country, Texas-Style Fiddling, And Western Music

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Jack Greene

What Locks The Door
What Locks The Door 1967 via Decca
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This Morning's Vintage Vinyl Spin By A Country Great: Jack Green Departed His Role As A Featured Member Of The Ernest Tubb Texas Troubadours In 1967, Becoming A Long-Time Favorite Of The Grand Ole Opry, Multiple Chart Topper And Grammy Nominee, And Earning Honors For "Male Vocalist of The Year," "Single Of The Year," "Album Of The Year" And "Song Of The Year," From The Country Music Association.

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Mother McCollum

Jesus Is My Air-O-Plane [1930]
Guitar Evangelists (1928-1951) 1992 via Document
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Billed As The "Sanctified Singer With Guitar." - Mysterious Mississippi Blueswoman Recording Only Six Sides, All Exceedingly Rare, Highly Sought And Pretty Much Impossible To Find. Nothing Is Known About Her. It's As If She Materialized, Fully-Formed, In The Recording Studio, Belted Out The Kind Of Blues That Makes Your Jaw Drop In Appreciation, And Then Stole Away Into The Night - No Forwarding Address, Never To be Heard From Again.

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Pete Seeger

Young Charlotte
Champlain Valley Songs 1960 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Folk Singer, Social Activist, Pioneering Legend; 'Nuff Said!

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9:00 am
Wealthy - May (click for more info)

Michigan singer-songwriter and Earthwork Music Artist May Erlewine celebrates an album release for Second Sight in a live show on Sunday, October 6th at Wealthy Theatre. 

'Second Sight' is a record of reflection with songs about existing, connecting, and moving forward through very turbulent times as a country.  

Multi- Jammie Award winner May Erlewine is live at Wealthy Theatre Sunday, October 6th. Doors open at 7pm - Ticket and event details at wealthytheatre.org.

Nerissa & Katryna Nields

Love And China
Love and China 2002 via Zoe Records
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Pushing On Thirty-Five Years As A Performing Duo, With The Occasional Regrouping Of Their Quintet, 'The Nields', Joined By Dave Hower On Drums, Paul Kochanski On Bass, And Dave Chalfant, On Guitar; Accomplished Musicians Them All

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Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban

Maria la Lo
Mambo Sinuendo 2002 via Nonesuch
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Producer Ry Cooder Refers To This Recording As "Cuban Soul And High-Performance" - Galban And Cooder Felt That There Was A Sound That Had Not Been Explored In A Cuban Electric-Guitar Band That Could Re-Interpret The Atmosphere Of The 1950's With Beauty, Agility, And Simplicity

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Jim Keller

Walk You Home
Heaven Can Wait 2014 via Independent
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Featuring David Hidalgo And Marc Ribot

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The Bascom McGhee Band

Come Into My Kitchen
Bascom McGhee 2003 via n/a
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GR Roots Quintet - Reworking Robert Johnson, 1936

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Ray Charles

Careless Love
Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music Vol 1 & 2 1962 via Concord
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1962 - According To Journalist Robert Christgau, The album "Transfigured Pop, Prefigured Soul, And Defined Modern Country & Western Music - 'Careless Love': The Song Is One Of The Best Known Pieces In The Repertory Of The Buddy Bolden Band At The Very Start Of The 20th Century

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8:40 am

Clifford Hayes And The Dixieland Jug Blowers

Blue Guitar Stomp [1927]
Clifford Hayes And The Dixieland Jug Blowers 2005 via Shanachie
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The Dixieland Jug Band Was Created By The Commingling Of Two Separate Groups Run By Jug Player Earl McDonald, And Fiddler Clifford Hayes, Brought Together In 1926 For A Victor Records Recording Session In Chicago, And Again In 1927. The Material Leaned To the Hokum And Country Blues Variety, And Together Hayes And McDonald Recorded A Total Of Twenty-Three Songs In The Above Mentioned Two Sessions. Hayes Passed On 1941 And McDonald In 1949

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Clifford Hayes And The Dixieland Jug Blowers

Please Don't Holler Mama [1926]
Clifford Hayes And The Dixieland Jug Blowers 2005 via Shanacie
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Clifford Hayes: March 10, 1893 Kentucky - October 22, 1941 Illinois; Earl McDonald: October 2, 1885 Kentucky - April 28, 1949 Kentucky

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Johnny Griffin Sextet

Johnny G.G.
Johnny Griffin Sextet 1958 via Riverside
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Donald Byrd, Trumpet...Kenny Drew, Piano...Wilbur Ware, Bass...Pepper Adams, Baritone Saxophone...Johnny Griffin, Tenor Saxophone - - - - - Recorded In A One Day Session By Griffin's All-Star Sextet. The Band Is Burning Here; Everyone Grooving In Time, No Fast Pyrotechnics Or Over Blowing Which Make The Music Swing Even Harder

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8:20 am
Barn Theatre: Rocky (click for more info)

Support for WYCE is provided by the Barn Theatre School. 


Barn Theatre School presents cult stage classic "The Rocky Horror Show" for a special engagement with 2 weekends of show dates - October 18th through 27th. 

Dedicated fans are welcomed to come to the Barn in costume and dance "The Time Warp" 

Tickets and information at barn theatre school dot org.

Rodney Crowell

What You Gonna Do Now
Texas 2019 via RC1
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Guest Appearance By Lyle Lovett

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Asleep At The Wheel

You're My Sugar
Reinventing The Wheel 2006 via Megaforce
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The Wheel Formed Forty-Nine Years Ago On the Campus Of Antioch College In Yellow Springs, Ohio With A Simple Goal: To Play And Help Revive American Roots Music

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Don Reno/Bill Harrell & Tennessee Cut Ups

Molly & Tenbrooks
Essential Bluegrass Mountain Music: 25 classics 2017 via Rhythm Records
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Also Known As "The Racehorse Song," With Its Roots In The Late 19th Century. the Carver Brothers First Put The Song to Acetate In 1929 Under The Title "Tim Brook."

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Domi Emorine

Itineraire Musette
A Collection Of Traditional Accordion Music (Waltzes) 2001 via Christal
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French Accordionist

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Si Kahn And The Looping Brothers

Rock Me, Roll Me
Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions 2013 via Si Kahn
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Si Kahn And Europe's Looping Brothers Trio have joined forces to Produce A Project Of Compositions Covering Familiar Territory For Kahn; Writing Of Mill Workers And Coal Miners, The Working People Of Appalachia, And The Fishermen Of Alaska

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Dori Freeman

2 Step
Every Single Star 2019 via Blue Hens Music
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Galax, Virginia; Third Release - Teddy Thompson On Co-Lead Vocals

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8:00 am
Wealthy - May (click for more info)

Michigan singer-songwriter and Earthwork Music Artist May Erlewine celebrates an album release for Second Sight in a live show on Sunday, October 6th at Wealthy Theatre. 

'Second Sight' is a record of reflection with songs about existing, connecting, and moving forward through very turbulent times as a country.  

Multi- Jammie Award winner May Erlewine is live at Wealthy Theatre Sunday, October 6th. Doors open at 7pm - Ticket and event details at wealthytheatre.org.