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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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Karavan Sarai

River Bend
Woven Landscapes 2015 via Independent
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Sonny Landreth

Blacktop Run
Blacktop Run 2020 via Provogue
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket
Ella And Louis Again 1957 via Verve
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The Oscar Peterson Trio Returns As The Duo's Backing Group, This Time Along With Drummer Louie Bellson

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Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis

Basin Street Blues
Two Men With The Blues 2008 via Blue Note Records
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Composer: Spenser Williams, 1928 - The Basin Street Of The Title Refers To The Main Street Of Storyville, The Red-Light District Of Early 20th-Century New Orleans, North Of The French Quarter. It Became A Red Light District In 1897.

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9:40 am
CMC Spring 2020 Fund Drive - General (B) (click for more info)

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Flaco Jimenez

Catwalk [Instrumental]
Flaco Jimenez 1994 via Arista
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San Antonio, TX - A Pioneer Of Conjunto Music - Began San San Antonio - Recording At Age Fifteen As Member Of Los Caminantes; The World Renowned Accordionist Recently Turned Eighty-One Years Of Age

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The Fat Babies

The Spell of the Blues
Uptown 2019 via Delmark
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Seven Piece Jazz Band From Chicago

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Dr. John

Wash, Mama, Wash
Mos' Scocious- Anthology 1993 via Rhino Records
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First Released On The Good Doctors Third Album 'Remedies' In 1970

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The Fiestas

The Gypsy Said
Single 1959 via Old Town Records
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Late 1950's American R&B Musical Group From New Jersey Signed To The Old Town Records Company In '59 After The Company's Owner, Hy Weiss, Overheard The Group Singing In A Bathroom Adjacent To His Office In Harlem

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Appalachian Road Show

The Appalachian Road
Tribulation 2020 via Appalachian Road
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A Visionary Acoustic Ensemble Bringing New-Generation Interpretations, Presented With A Common Thread Tied Directly To The Heart Of The Appalachian Regions Of The United States

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9:20 am

Nick Lowe With Los Straitjackets

Lay It On Me Baby
Lay It On Me Baby 2020 via Yep
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Due On June 5th - Lowe's Third EP In Two Years, A Four-Song Tour-De-Force With Nashville Instrumental Rocker's Los Straitjackets.

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Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys ft. Claude Fewell

(Me And My Baby) Doin' The Bunny Hop
Boot Heel Drag: The MGM Years 2001 via MGM
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Happy Easter From all Of Us At 'YCE

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Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty

How High Can You Build A Fire
Country Partners 1974 via MCA
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Over The Course Of A Seventeen Year Musical Partnership, Loretta And Conway Released Eleven Albums And Twelve Singles; Recipients Of Eight Country Music Association Awards

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Ry Cooder

I'll Be Rested When the Roll is Called
The Prodigal Son 2018 via Fantasy/Concord
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Reworking The 1929 Gospel Great Composed And Recorded By Sacred And Secular Blues Musician Blind Roosevelt Graves

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Maxwell Street Klezmer Band

Doina-Chosidl-The Lark
You Should Be So Lucky 1996 via Shanachie
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One Of The First Klezmer Revival Bands In The Midwest, Forming In Chicago In 1983, And Named After Chicago's Jewish Marketplace Of The Early 1900's

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9:00 am
CMC Spring 2020 Fund Drive - General (B) (click for more info)

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The Waco Brothers

Circle Tour
Electric Waco Chair 2000 via Bloodshot
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Shout Out To The Over The Road Salesman Traveling The Asphalt Etching Out a Living

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Eilen Jewell

Can't Shake These Blues
Link Of Chain: A Songwriters Tribute To Chris Smithers 2014 via Signature
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A Singers/Songwriters Tip Of The Hat To Seventy-Five Year Old Chris Smither

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M. Ward

Along The Santa Fe Trail
Migration Stories 2020 via Anti
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Reworking Glenn Miller & His Orchestra (1940)

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Steve Forbert

Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues
Early Morning Rain 2020 via Forbert Music
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Now An Elder Statesman Of Homespun Americana Roots Music, Forbert's New One Is A Cover Album Of Some Of His Favorite Folk-Rock Songs Given The Usual Forbert Finesse

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Laura Smith

My Bonnie
B'tween The Earth And My Soul 2015 via Borealis
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Canadian Songstress Re-Adapting The Eighteenth-Century Scottish Folk Song

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8:40 am
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Charley Jordan & Peetie Wheatshaw

So Soon
Collection 1930-1937 2019 via Acrobat
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Blues Spotlight: Country Blues Guitarist Charley Jordan Is One Of The Many Major Figures In The Blues Of Whom We Know Surprisingly Little. He Played A Clean, Three-Finger Style That Owed A Good Deal To Ragtime, Recording Extensively During The 1930's Usually Alongside Peetie Wheatshaw. In 1928 Jordan Was Shot In The Spine Due To His Parallel Career As A Bootlegger, Leaving Him On Crutches And A Performing Career Greatly Curtailed. During His Time As A Talent Scout For Vocalion Records, He And Big Joe Williams Ran A Rehearsal Studio In St. Louis That Became A Mecca For Visiting Bluesmen Preparing To Record In The City. Charley Jordan Passed On in 1954.

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Charley Jordan

Starvation Blues [1930]
Charley Jordan Vol. 1 (1930-1931) 1992 via Document
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Blues Spotlight: January 1, 1890 AR - November 15, 1954 MO

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Carl Fontana Quintet

Daniel's Blues
The Fifties 1985 via Uptown
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'820 Jazz' Presents: Henri Renaud, Piano...Curtis Counce, Double Bass...Wes Ilcken, Drums..Al Porcino, Trumpet....Carl Fontana, Trombone - - - - Groundbreaking Trombonist Carl fontana Worked In The Big Bands Of Woody Herman, Lionel Hampton, and Stan Kenton. Formed Several Groups In Various Configurations Since 1958. This Morning We Hear From The Carl Fontana Quintet And Daniel's Blues

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8:20 am

The Sweethearts Of Navajoland

One Woman's Man
Heartbeat: Voices Of First Nations Women 1995 via Smithsonian Folkways
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A Revolving Group Of Navajo Women Changing From Year To Year, A Combination Of Young And Old; The Common Thread Between Them Is A Love Of The Navajo Culture.

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Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms

New Shoes
Innocent Road 2016 via Klauder Music
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Co-Founding Members Of The Folk-Rock Band Calobo, Luminaries In The Northwest's Burgeoning 90's Music Scene; Later And Still To This Day Members Of The Widely Celebrated Foghorn Stringband

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Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaneers

Kitty Hill [1927]
The Cornshuckers Frolic: Classic Recordings From The 1920's & '30's 2006 via Yazoo
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Mountain Shout: Represented And Promoted The Musical Culture Of Their Region For Most Of The 1920's. Thanks To Them Gordon County, GA Has Come To Be Held In High Regard By Fans Of Old-Time Southern Music

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Danny Barnes

Juke
Man On Fire 2020 via ATO Records
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Produced By Dave Matthews - Bill Frisell, Guitars - John Paul Jones, Bass - Barnes Came To Fame In 1990 As A Founding Member Of the Bad Livers

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Laurel Premo

Polly Put The Kettle On
The Iron Trios 2019 via Independent
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Co-Founding Member Of Kalamazoo's Internationally Known Red Tail Ring - The 'Iron Trios' Record Marks Laurel's Second Major Instrumental Work

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8:00 am
CMC Spring 2020 Fund Drive - General (B) (click for more info)

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Thank you for listening and thank you for supporting the Grand Rapids Community Media Center!