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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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Brooklyn Funk Essentials

Y Todavia La Quiero
Stay Good 2020 via Dorado
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Steve Earle

Pocket Full Of Rain
The Low Highway 2013 via New West Records
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Fort Monroe, VA - Early On Played Bass Guitar In Guy Clark's Band And Sang On Clark's 1975 Album Old No. 1

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The Dead Tongues

Little Sadie
Single 2020 via The Dead Tongues
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The Smoldering Folk-Rock Project Of Durham's Ryan Gustafson Doing Justice To The Early Twentieth-Century American Murder Ballad

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Lindi Ortega

I Ain't The Girl
Faded Gloryville 2015 via Last Gang Records
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Toronto, CN - Has Taken Home Two Canadian Music Association Awards Including Roots Artist of the Year

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Mississippi Fred McDowell And Rosalee Hill

When The Train Comes Along [1959]
Fred McDowell: The Alan Lomax Recordings 2011 via Odyssey
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Son Of A Sharecropper, And A Seminal Figure In Mississippi Hill Country Blues.A Local Entertainer In 1959 When He Made His First Recordings At His Home For Folklorist Alan Lomax. The Depth And Originality Of McDowell's Music Brought Him such Worldwide Acclaim That He Was Able To Record And Tour Prolifically During His Final Years.

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9:40 am

The James Hunter Six

Missing in Action
Nick Of Time 2020 via Daptone
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Fresh Into The 'YCE Blues Alley

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Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit ft. David Crosby

What Have I Done To Help
Reunions 2020 via Thirty Tigers
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New Album Drops 5/18 - Appearing At Devos Performance Hall With Special Guest Strand Of Oaks 6/23

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Gene Austin

My Blue Heaven [1927]
My Blue Heaven (Original Recordings 1927-1934) 2013 via Salt & Pepper
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One Of The First Known "Crooners" Accompanied By The Victor Orchestra Directed By Nathaniel Silkret; Charted For Twenty-Six Weeks Perching At Number One For Thirteen - One Of The Best Selling Single Of All Time, My Blue Heaven Is Part Of The Prestigious Grammy Hall Fame

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Cindy Cashdollar

Skylark
Waltz For Abilene 2020 via Silver Shot
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Jake Langley, Piano - Johnny Mercer And Hoagy Carmichael Published 'Skylark' In 1941, Writing The Melody Based On A Bix Beiderbecke Cornet Improvisation, Known As "Bix Licks", Two Decades Prior

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9:20 am

COMPILATIONS

I Wrote You A Song - The Lawrence Peters Outfit
Too Late To Pray_Defiant Chicago Roots 2019 via Bloodshot Records

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Dee Dee Bridgewater, Irvin Mayfield, NOJO

One Fine Thing
Dee Dee's Feathers 2015 via OKeh
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Three-Time Grammy Winning Singer Born In Memphis And Raised In Flint - Sang For Mel Lewis And Thad Jones In The 1970's, Marking The Beginning Of Her Jazz Career

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Merline Johnson

Bad Whiskey Blues
Merline Johnson "The Yas Yas Girl" 1937-1947 2000 via Wolf
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Favoring Juke-Joint Blues, Merline Johnson Recorded "Bad Whiskey Blues" With Blind John Davis And Lonnie Johnson During Her Final Recording Session In 1947. Shortly thereafter, Miss Johnson Drifted Into The Blues Sunset Never To Be Heard From Again; A Footnote In The History Of The Blues

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COMPILATIONS

Summoning Winds
Songs of the Spirit 1995 via Triloka
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Native Flute Ensemble: One Of The First Group Of Musicians To Frame The Native American Flute With Other Instruments; Highly-Instrumental In The Renaissance Of That Instrument

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9:00 am
Broad Leaf (click for more info)

Support today on WYCE comes from  Broad Leaf Local Beer an experimental craft brewery open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner with from-scratch street food and live music. 


Broad Leaf is on the corner of 29th St and Lake Eastbrook Blvd and is owned and operated by Brewery Vivant. 

A list if events, menu, and more is available broad leaf beer dot com or on Facebook and Instagram

Djangophonique

Coquette
Jazz Du Jour [Live EP] 2020 via Independent
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Andrew Brown Is The Co-Founder Of The Appleseed Collective

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Clothesline Revival

Leather Britches
The Greatest Show On Mars 2014 via Paleo Music
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Reworking An Eighteenth-Century Scottish Reel Called "Lord Macdonald's Reel." The Title "Leather Britches" (Or "Breeches") Is Primarily The American Title First Appearing In the Mountains Of West Virginia

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Jake Xerxes Fussell

Push Boat
Jake Xerxes Fussell 2015 via Jake Xerxes Fussell
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Durham, NC - The Son Of A Folklorist - As A Teen Jake Began Playing With Elder Musicians In The Chattahoochee Valley, Apprenticing With Piedmont Blues Legend Precious Bryant

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Growling Old Men

Billy Gray
Chicken Feed & Baling Twine 2013 via Growling Old Men
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John Lowell And Ben Winship Are Both Veterans Of The Northern Rockies' Acoustic Music World And Entering Their Twenty-Second Year Performing And Recording As 'Growling Old Men'

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Helene Cronin

Riding The Gray Line
Old Ghosts And Lost Causes 2019 via Helene Cronin
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Released a Few Months Ago, The Texas Native Was Named a 2018 New Folk Winner At the Prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival

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8:40 am
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Mississippi Sheiks

Sitting On Top Of The World
Mississippi Sheiks, Vol. 1 1929-1930 2013 via Document
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Blues Spotlight: One Half Of The Legendary Mississippi Sheiks, Walter Vinson Was Also Among The Most Noteworthy Blues Accompanists Of His Era. During The 1920's He Worked With Charlie McCoy, Rubin Lacy,And Charlie Spand Before Forging His Most Pivotal And Long-Lasting Union With Lonnie Chatmon In 1928. When The Sheiks Dissolved In 1933, Vinson Relocated To Chicago, And Remained Active As A Club Performer During the 40's. The Blues Revival Of The Early 1960's Brought Him Out Of Retirement And Onto The Festival Scene. Walter Vinson Passed On In 1975.

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Walter Vinson

Overtime Blues
Peabody Blues 2014 via Highnote
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Blues Spotlight: February 2, 1901 MS - April 22, 1975 IL

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Melvin Sparks

Gathering Together
Texas Twister 1973 via Ace
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'820' Jazz: Melvin Sparks Took His Place As The Go To Guitarist For Jazz Pillars Lou Donaldson And Sonny Stitt. This Morning We Feature A Track From 'Texas Twister', A 1973 Solo Release On Eastbound Records, In Which Sparks Experiments With Several Configurations Of Personnel. On The Song "Gathering Together" He Fires Up His Favored Quartet - - - - - - -Idris Mohammad, Drums...Caesar Frazier, Hammond B-3...Wilbur Bascomb, Bass..Melvin Sparks, Guitar

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8:20 am

Miss Tess

These Blues
The Moon Is An Ashtray 2020 via Rights Records
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Bringing Her Old-Time Warmth With A Hint Of 21st Century Sass To Tip Top Deluxe Here On GR's West Side, 4/29

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Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGhee

Way Down the Old Plank Road
My Rough And Rowdy Ways: Early American Rural Music. Badman Ballads And Hellraising Songs 2005 via Shanachie
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Performing Vaudevillains And Two Of The Most Enduring Acts On The Grand Ole Opry During The Show's First Fifty Years

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Danny Barnes

Mule
Man On Fire 2020 via Barnes Music
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Temple, TX - Banjo Virtuoso And Founding Member Of Austin's 'Bad Livers'

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The Steeldrivers

Mama Says No
Bad For You 2020 via Rounder
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Appearing At the Lerner In Elkhart, IN 5/2

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Blaze Foley

Let Me Ride in Your Big Cadillac
The Dawg Years (1975-1978) 2010 via Fat Possum
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Malvern, AR - His Mother Laid Down Roots In Houston And Blaze Joined Her In The Gospel Band Called The Singing Fuller Family - Close Friend With Townes Van Zandt

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Michael Beauchamp

Sweet on You
My Northern Voices 2008 via Independent
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Co-Founding Member Of Red Tail Ring

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8:00 am
Broad Leaf (click for more info)

Support today on WYCE comes from  Broad Leaf Local Beer an experimental craft brewery open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner with from-scratch street food and live music. 


Broad Leaf is on the corner of 29th St and Lake Eastbrook Blvd and is owned and operated by Brewery Vivant. 

A list if events, menu, and more is available broad leaf beer dot com or on Facebook and Instagram