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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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Choro das 3

Alma Portuguesa
Olho De Boi 2019 via Independent
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Frank Frost & The Night Hawks

Just Come On Home
Hey Boss Man! 1962 via Phillips
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One Of The Foremost American Delta Blues Harmonica Players Of His Generation

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Foy Vance

Only The Artist (Radio Edit)
To Memphis 2019 via Elektra
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Mary Chapin Carpenter

Chasing What's Already Gone
Ashes And Roses 2012 via Zoe Records / Pgd
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Appearing With Shawn Colvin 10/15 At The Michigan Theater

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9:40 am
Fall Fund Drive 2019 (click for more info)

WYCE's Fall Fund Drive starts October 11th! West Michigan's best music variety doesn't power itself... We need you to do your part! 

WYCE is Listener-Sponsored Radio - we receive no funds from any university, religious organization, or from the government. 

So tune in October 11th-18th to make your financial contribution! Or Donate now - online at WYCE dot org!

To kick off this special occasion Broad Leaf Brewery has offered a portion of sales to benefit the drive on Thursday October 10th

Johnnie Johnson

Tossin' And Turnin'
Johnnie Be Back 1995 via Amerco
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Johnnie Johnson & Phoebe Snow Taking Bobby Lewis Undercover; Major Hit For Bobby In 1961 - Of Course Johnnie's Eighty-Eight keys Giving Chuck Berry His Rhythm

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Glenn Miller And His Orchestra

By The Waters Of Minnetonka (Indian Love Song) [1938]
The Complete Glenn Miller And His Orchesrtra 1991 via Capitol
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Based On A Sioux Love Song - First Recorded By Soprano Frances Alda In 1920

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Sheila Landis & Rick Matle

Walkin' After Midnight
Walkin' After Midnight 2018 via Independent
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Detroit, MI

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Jimmy Duck Holmes

Goin' Away Baby
Cypress Grove 2019 via Easy Eye Sound
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Holmes Is Known As The Last Of The Bentonia Bluesmen - Proprietor Of The Blue Front Cafe On The Mississippi Blues Trail, The Oldest Surviving Juke Joint In Mississippi.

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9:20 am

Ibrahim Ferrer

Buenos Hermanos
Buenos Hermanos 2003 via Nonesuch
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Played With Los Bocucos For Nearly Forty Years. After His Retirement In 1991, Ry Cooder Brought Him Back In The Studio To Record With The Afro-Cuban All Stars And Buena Vista Social Club

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The Sojourners

It's Hard to Stumble (When You're on Your Knees)
The Sojourners 2009 via Black Hen Music
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Gospel Trio From Vancouver

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Charlie Parr

On Stealing A Sailboat
Charlie Parr 2019 via Red House/Compass
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Fresh One From Parr

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Gene Autry

South Of The Border [1939]
The Songs Of The Singing Cowboys 1980 via Dean Enterprises
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Vintage Vinyl Spin: Gene Autry, A True American Singing Legend - Border Themes And Music Played An Important Role In The B-Western Film Genre, Limited To Cues And Background Music Until Gene Autry's "Mexicali Rose," In 1939; A Musical Western And The Title Song Becoming One Of Gene's Biggest Records. Others followed, With Commercially Successful Film Title Songs Including South Of The Border, Under Fiesta Stars,,Gaucho Serenade And Rancho Grande.

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Henry Glenshaw

Arkansas Traveler
Fiddlin' Around The Bay 2018 via Henry Glenshaw
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State Song Of Arkansas Composed By Colonel Sanford Faulkner, Not Long After The ending Of America's Civil War

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9:00 am
Vertigo Music - General (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes From Vertigo Music: 

Specializing in New Vinyl - Vertigo Music is located at 129 South Division Avenue in Grand Rapids 

Open daily 12PM - 9PM Saturday 11AM-8PM and Sunday 12PM-6PM 

Vertigo Music carries new & gently used vinyl, cassettes, DVDs, turntables, and more. 

Looking to thin out your collection? Vertigo music can help - details at 616-742-5106

Beau Jocque

Do Right Sometime
Pick Up On This! 1994 via Rounder / Pgd
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Fusing Many Musical Styles Into Zydeco with His Longtime Band The Hi-Rollers

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The International Submarine Band

Folsom Prison blues/That's All Right
Safe At Home 1968 via LHI
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Formed By Gram Parsons And John Nuese In 1965 On The Campus Of Harvard University. Nuese Is Credited With Having Persuaded Parsons To Pursue The Country-Rock Sound; A Sound Parsons Would Bring to The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, And with Emmylou Harris In The Fallen Angels, Becoming Enormously Influential In That Genre. Parsons Referred To It As "Cosmic American Music."

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Kenny Roby & 6 String Drag

Rather Not Know
Tired Of Feelin' Guilty: 25 Years Of Kenny Roby & 6 String Drag 2019 via Schoolkids Records
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Formed In 1993 In Raleigh, NC - One Of The Earliest Alt-Country Bands Of The Era - A Point In Time At Which Uncle Tupelo Was Winding Down. Six String Drag Played A Major Role In Making The Term "Americana" Part Of The Musical Lexicon

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Alexa Rose

Medicine For Living
Medicine For Living 2019 via Big Legal Mess
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Debut Album For The Virginina Born Singer/Songwriter - Rare Ability To Find Strikingly Original Melodies That Nevertheless Sound Like They Must Have Existed For A Long Time

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8:40 am

Kid Bailey

Mississippi Bottom Blues {1929}
Peabody Blues 2014 via Hightone
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Was Mississippi Delta Bluesman Known For One recording Session Occurring September 25, 1929 In Memphis. Little Is Known About Bailey, An Enigmatic Musician Of The Era With A Distinctly Coarseness To His Voice, Only Four Of Recorded Sides Are Known to Exist From the Memphis Session. Over the Years, Speculation that Kid Bailey Was A Pseudonym Of Blues Singer Willie Brown. This Has Yet to Be Proven.

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Kid Bailey

Rowdy Blues [1929]
Masters Of The Delta Blues: The Friends Of Charlie Patton 2005 via Shanachie
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Miles Davis Quintet

Blues By Five
Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet 1957 via Prestige
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Paul Chambers, Double Bass...Red Garland, Piano...John Coltrane, Tenor Sax...Philly Joe Jones, Drums...Miles Davis, Trumpet - - - - - - - This Morning's 820 Jazz Presentation Is "Blues By Five," Taken From The Album 'Cookin' With the Miles Davis Quintet', Recorded In 1965 With Rudy Van Gelder Engineering. The Two Day Session Produced Four Albums. In Response To The Album title, Davis Said, "After All, That's what We Did - Came In And Cooked".

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8:20 am

Billy Joe Shaver

Georgia On A Fast Train
Tramp On Your Street 1993 via BMG
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Corsicana, TX - Outlaw Country Singer/Songwriter Legend Turning Eighty A Few Weeks Ago

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Billy Strings

Must Be Seven
Home 2019 via Rounder
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Playing A Sold Out Show New Year's Eve At The Intersection

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The Po' Ramblin' Boys

The Honky Tonk Downstairs
Back To The Mountains 2016 via Po' Ramblin
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High Energy Quintet Of Smoky Mountain Pickers, Putting The Band Together Inside A Tennessee Distillery

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The Scatterlings

Mockingbird
Being Human 2019 via The Scatterlings
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Asheville, NC Four-Piece Acoustic Band Writing Songs Steeped Deep In Local History - The Quartet Share A Fondness For Songs About Heartbreak, Whiskey, Killings And Hangings

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Them Coulee Boys

Find Your Muse
Die Happy 2019 via LoHi
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The Eau Claire, Wisconsin String Band Setting Up Shop At The Livery In Benton Harbor The Weekend Of 11/30

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8:00 am
Vertigo Music - General (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes From Vertigo Music: 

Specializing in New Vinyl - Vertigo Music is located at 129 South Division Avenue in Grand Rapids 

Open daily 12PM - 9PM Saturday 11AM-8PM and Sunday 12PM-6PM 

Vertigo Music carries new & gently used vinyl, cassettes, DVDs, turntables, and more. 

Looking to thin out your collection? Vertigo music can help - details at 616-742-5106