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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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Jerry Douglas

Lookout for Hope
Lookout For Hope 2002 via Sugarhill [Country]
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Sugar 'N' Spice

Come Go With Me [1964]
60's Girl Groups 1997 via Warner
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Canadian Pop Band Based In Winnipeg, Active During The Late 1960's Taking Pittsburgh's Doo-Woppers The Dell-Vikings Undercover

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Albennie Jones

Evil Gal Blues [1949]
Fine And Mellow 2015 via Suncoast
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Errata, MS - American Blues And Jazz Singer Who Recorded In The 1940's - Her Band Included Electric Guitarist Leonard Ware, Pianist Cliff Jackson, Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, And Saxophonist Don Byas/

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Steve Ferguson And Terry Adams

Hi Heel Sneakers
Louisville Sluggers 2007 via Clang
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Louisville, KY - Co-Founding Members Of New Rhythm And Blues Quartet (NRBQ) 1965 - A Jam Band Blending Together A Stew Of Rockabilly To Thelonious Monk-Inspired Jazz

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9:40 am

G. Love

She's the Rock
The Juice 2020 via Thirty Tigers
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Fresh Roots And Roll Leaving The Special Sauce On The Side

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The Elders

Saint Brendan Had a Boat
Racing the Tide 2006 via Cbuj Ent
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Six-Piece Irish American Band Forming In Kansas City, MO In 1998. The Group Discontinued Regular Touring In 2018.

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Ben Sollee

The Holdout
Ben Sollee And Kentucky Native 2017 via Soundly
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Kentucky-Born Cellist And Composer

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Jeri Brown And The Jimmy Rowles Trio

Old Orleans
A Timeless Place 1995 via Justin Time Records
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Working The Jazz Scene In Cleveland For A While Focusing On Jazz Standards And Uptown Swagger

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9:20 am
Ferris Coffee (click for more info)

Coffee at WYCE is provided by Ferris Coffee - a local roaster with two cafe locations in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

Ferris is a family owned and operated company with a mission to build thriving relationships through specialty coffee and nuts. 

You can find more information about their coffee and the people behind it at ferriscoffee.com
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Levon Helm

When I Go Away
Electric Dirt 2009 via Vanguard Records
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Online Suggestion From Our Friends On The East Coast

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Bill Black's Combo

Forty Miles Of Bad Road
Bill Black's Combo 1963 via Hi Tone
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Vintage Vinyl Spin: One Of The Pioneers Of Rock And Roll; Bassist In Elvis's Early Trio, Departing In 1959 And Forming Bill Black's Combo. The Band Would See Several Personnel Changes, Opened For The Beatles A Couple Of Times, Put Twenty Albums On The Charts With Several Top Ten Singles. Black Died Young At The Age Of Thirty-Nine In 1965.

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John Henry Barbee & Sleepy John Estes

Backwater Blues [1962]
Blues Masters, Vol. 3 1991 via Document
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Composer: Brownie McGhee Under Then Title Of "Creole Love Call" - Bessie Smith Made It A Blues Standard, 1927

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COMPILATIONS

Jim and John
Back Roads to Cold Mountain 2004 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Ed & Lonnie Young Were Some Of The Most Active Fife And Drum Performers Around North Mississippi. - With Its Military Background, Fife & Drum Music Hearkens Back To Post Civil War Days, When This Local Tradition Originated

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9:00 am
World Affairs Council (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from World Affairs Council: 

The World Affairs Council of Western Michigan presents an eight-week series on international relations and foreign policy titled "Great Decisions." 

Tomorrow from 6 to 7:15 p.m in the Aquinas College Performing Arts Center it's NPR Manila Bureau correspondent Julie McCarthy on "Mirror to the World: The Philippines under Duterte."

This event will also be repeated on Tuesday, February 18, from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Covenant Fine Arts Center at Calvin University. 

For more on the series and the speakers, it's World Michigan dot org slash great decisions 2020 or 616.776.1721.

Jolie And The Jackalopes

First Time Again
First Time Again 2019 via Jolie And the Jackalopes
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Weaving Their Web Of Infectious Tunes Throughout The Latest Album; When Western Was Swinging To The Boppin' Days Of Rockabilly, And Finally To The Days Of The Cosmic Cowboys Of Texas

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Amy Ray

Sure Feels Good Anyway
Holler 2018 via Daemon/Compass
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Indigo Girls Release A New One On 4/24

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B-Side Growlers

Everybody's Talking
Home Brewed 2017 via Independent
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GR's B-Side Growlers, 2018 Jammie Award Recipients With A Wonderful Treatment Of Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talking"

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Matt the Electrician

Long Gone
Accidental Thief 2011 via Independent
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Stage Name Of Matt Sever, A Singer/Songwriter Based In Austin - Sever Began Playing Coffee Houses When He Was 15 Years Old

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Darling West

Katy Dear
Winter Passing 2014 via Darling West
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The Song Exists In A Large Number Of Variations Under Many Different Titles, With Its Origins Lying In Great Britain During The 1820's

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8:40 am

Larry Dale

Let The Doorbell Ring
Rock With A Sock 1960 via Glover
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Blues Spotlight: Larry Dale Was A Texan Guitarist And Singer Who Played Some Swinging Electric Blues In New York In The 50s; Played On A Few Seminal Records; Had A Brief Career As A Bandleader, And Was Still Active In Harlem In The 1990's. Dale Was The Go To Guitarist For Champion Jack DuPree, And Guitarist-In-Residence for Many Years At The Savoy Club In Harlem. Ennis Lowery Passed On In 2010.

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Larry Dale

Big Muddy [1960]
Big Muddy: Old Town EP 2012 via Old Town
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Blues Spotlight: January 7,1923 TX - May 19, 2010 NY

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Artie Shaw

Concerto for Clarinet, Pts. 1 a
The Essential Artie Shaw 2005 via Columbia
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'820' Jazz Presents: Concerto For Clarinet Is A 1939 Legendary Recording Composition. A Pastiche Thrown Together Out Of Some Boogie-Woogie Blues, Clarinet-Over-Tom Tom Interludes, With A Commonplace Riff Build-Up Towards The End; All Encased In Opening And Closing Virtuoso Cadenzas For Shaw's Clarinet.

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8:20 am
Ferris Coffee (click for more info)

Coffee at WYCE is provided by Ferris Coffee - a local roaster with two cafe locations in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

Ferris is a family owned and operated company with a mission to build thriving relationships through specialty coffee and nuts. 

You can find more information about their coffee and the people behind it at ferriscoffee.com

The Vern Williams Band

I'm On My Way To The Old Home
Traditional Bluegrass 2004 via Arhoolie
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Instrumental In Introducing Bluegrass Music To The West Coast Of The United States.

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Dan Crary, Byron Berline And John Hickman

Early Times
Chambergrass 2006 via Crary Songs
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Trio Of String Wizards Doing What They Do Best

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John Prine

Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
German Afternoons 1988 via Oh Boy
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Discovered By Kris Kristofferson - Fifty Years On The Road - John Prine Is One Of The Most Influential Songwriters Of His Generation,

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Rayna Gellert

River Town
Workin's Too Hard 2017 via Storysound
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Elkhart, IN - Co-Founding Member Of Uncle Earl

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The Haden Triplets

Gray Mother Dreaming
The Family Songbook 2020 via Trimeter/Thirty Tigers
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The Very Talented Daughters Of Pioneering Jazz Bassist, Charrlie Haden

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8:00 am
World Affairs Council (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from World Affairs Council: 

The World Affairs Council of Western Michigan presents an eight-week series on international relations and foreign policy titled "Great Decisions." 

Tomorrow from 6 to 7:15 p.m in the Aquinas College Performing Arts Center it's NPR Manila Bureau correspondent Julie McCarthy on "Mirror to the World: The Philippines under Duterte."

This event will also be repeated on Tuesday, February 18, from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Covenant Fine Arts Center at Calvin University. 

For more on the series and the speakers, it's World Michigan dot org slash great decisions 2020 or 616.776.1721.