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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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Motor City Jazz Octet

Black Friday
Beyond Words 2015 via Empire Venture Group
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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COMPILATIONS

Man Biswenw'
Putumayo Presents- French Caribbean 2003 via Putumayo World Music
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Jean Luc-Alger, One Of The Best Exponents Of Caribbean Zouk Music, Associated Mainly With The French West Indies

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Jake Blount

English Chicken
Spider Tales 2020 via Free Dirt
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Award-Winning Banjoist, Fiddler, Singer And Scholar Based In Providence, RI

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The New Basement Tapes

Duncan And Jimmy
Lost On The River 2014 via Harvest
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Producer: T-Bone Burnett - Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens, Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James And Marcus Mumford; Writing And Create Music For A Treasure Trove Of Recently Discovered Lyrics Handwritten By Bob Dylan n 1967 During The Period That Generated The Recording Of The Legendary Basement Tapes.

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9:40 am
(REQUESTED)

Norah Jones

Creepin' In
Feels Like Home 2004 via Blue Note Records
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Online Suggestion!

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Allman Brothers Band

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Hartford, CT 8-3-03 2018 via Peach
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Susan Tedeschi, Vocals

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Charlie Musselwhite

What Do You Think, Cholita
Continental Drifter 1999 via Virgin Records
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The Seventy-Five Year Old Delta Bluesman Is Joined By Cuarteto Patria From Cuba's Santiago Region, The Cuban Music Counterpart Of The Mississippi Delta

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The Golden Gate Quartet

Everytime I Feel The Spirit
Golden Gate Quartet Vol. 3 (1939) 1996 via Document
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Formed In 1934, The Group Remains Active To This Day - African-American Spiritual Dating to Before The Civil War

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9:20 am
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Leon Redbone

Roll Along, Kentucky Moon
Sugar 1990 via Rounder / Pgd
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Remembering Leon Redbone Passing On One Year Ago Yesterday

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Ray Kane

Nanea Kou Maka I Ka Le'ale'a [Instrumental]
Punahele 1994 via Windham Hill Records
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One Of The Masters Of The Slack Key Guitar

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Jimmy And Dorothy Blakely

No One But You [1956]
Hillbilly Hit Parade 1962 via Mercury
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Vintage Vinyl Spin: Husband-Wife Act Performing Western Music For Several Years In The 1950's. Jimmy And Dorothy Got Their Start On Radio In Oklahoma City, And Later Worked For A Few Other Stations Before Relocating To Roswell, New Mexico, Signing A Record Contract With Starday Records.

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Doc Sausage & His Mad Lads

Sausage Rock
The Complete Recordings 1940-1953 2013 via Document
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Multi-Talented Singer, Dancer, Drummer And Bandleader Very Well-Known Around NYC In The 1940's. Put Together Doc Sausage & His Five Pork Chops For A Ten Year Stretch, Evolving Into "The Mad Lads' Ten Years Later.

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Roy Rogers and Norton Buffalo

Down in Mississippi [Live]
Travellin' Tracks 1992 via Blind Pig
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Reminiscing About His Time Playing With The "Coast To Coast' Band; Road Warriors For The Great John Lee Hooker

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The Infamous Stringdusters ft. G. Love

Cold Berverage
Single Release 2020 via Stringdusters
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Leaving 'Special Sauce' On The Side, G.Love Joins The Infamous Stringdusters, Putting The Pick To G. Love And Special Sauce's 1994 Breakthrough Hit

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A La Carte Brass & Percussion

Alligator Boogaloo
Go-Go & Gumbo, Satchmo N' Soul 1997 via Mapleshade Records
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Mixing Up A Potent Stew For Twenty-Two Years

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Miss Tess

Sugarbabe
The Moon Is An Ashtray 2020 via Rights Records
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The Talkbacks Joining Miss Tess One Again - Latest From Nashville's Retro-Roots Chanteuse

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Willie Nile

Lonesome Dark-Eyed Beauty
Streets of New York 2006 via Reincarnate Music
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After A False Start In The Early Eighties Due To Protracted Legal Problems Which Curtailed His Career For Years, Willie's Twenty-First Century Re-emergence Brought Us 'Streets Of New York' - Willie Nile Turns 72 In A Few Days

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8:40 am

Kings Of Rhythm

You've Changed My Love [1950]
Trail Blazer: Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm 2005 via Gusto
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Formed In The Late 1940's In Clarksdale, Mississippi And Led By Ike Turner; The Kings Of Rhythm Were An Offshoot Of A Large Big Band Ensemble Called "The Tophatters." The Group Recorded The Song "Rocket 88" Which Is A Contender For The First Rock And Roll Record. The Song Is Inducted Into The Blues, Grammy, And Rock And Roll Halls Of Fame. Ike Took The Band Through Several Name Changes, The Ike And Tina Revue, Family Vibes And As Backing Group For His Solo Projects, Including The Grammy-Winning 'Risin With The Blues'. When Ike Passed In 2007, Singer Earl Thomas Took The Helm. Ike Turner's The Kings Of Rhythm Continue to Perform, Seventy-Years On.

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Kings Of Rhythm

The Big Question [1952]
Rock-A-Bucket 2011 via Raucous
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Forming 1946, MS - 2007, CA

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Gerry Mulligan And Ben Webster

Go Home
Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster 1959 via Verve
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'820' Jazz Presents - Mel Lewis, Drums...Jimmy Rowles, Piano...Leroy Vinnegar, Double Bass...Ben Webster, Tenor Saxophone...Gerry Mulligan, Baritone Saxophone - - - - - - - -A Classic Album From Two Giants Recorded In A Two Day Session, One Month Apart. The Albums Title Is A Bit Of A Misnomer, Though; The Two Saxophonists Had Met Many Times Before, Organizing Informal, Private Jam Sessions in Around Los Angeles. Three Legendary Sidemen Join Them For This Recording, All Getting Their Moment To Stretch Out, Each Coming Through On Of The Great Jazz Albums Of All Time.

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Jimmy Martin

Tennessee [1968]
The King Of Bluegrass 2004 via Koch
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With The Sunny Mountain Boys - The King Of Bluegrass Began As Lead Vocalist For Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys In 1949

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Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton

Groundhog
Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton 2020 via Smithsonian Folkways
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A New Album Of Old-Time Music By Smithsonian Folkways Culled From Unheard Tapes Recorded At Doc's Two Earliest Concerts Presented In Greenwich Village In 1962; Featuring Rare Appearances By Doc's Father-In-Law, Fiddler Gaither Carlton Made Outside Of North Carolina.

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Nashville Bluegrass Band

Sitting On Top of the World
Twenty Years Blues 2004 via Sugarhill
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Written By Lonnie Chatmon And Walter Vinson, Founding Members Of The Mississippi Sheiks, 1930 - The Multi-Award Winning Nashville Bluegrass Band First Played Together In 1984 As The Backing Band For Vernon Oxford And Minnie Pearl

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Hazel Dickens, Carol Jones, Ginny Hawker

Time Is Winding Up
Heart Of A Singer 1998 via Rounder Select
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The Three Ladies Of Roots Distinction

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Alison Brown

Gods of Brazil
Twilight Motel 1992 via Vanguard Records
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Brown's Second Release - The Flute Groove Courtesy Of Matt Eakle, A Thirty-Year Member Of The David Grisman Quintet

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