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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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Don Spezia

Gridlock - Open Highway
Solo Guitar by Don Spezia 2011 via Independent
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Sam Carr's Delta Jukes

Down In The Delta
Down In the Delta 2004 via Bluesland
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Founding Member Of The Jelly Roll Kings, Son Of Influential Blues Guitarist Robert Nighthawk - Widely Regarded As One Of The Best Drummers In The Blues - Carr Began His Career With Sonny Boy Williamson ll (Rice Miller)

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Leyla McCalla

Latibonit
Vari-Colored Songs (A Tribute to Langston Hughes) 2020 via Smithsonian Folkways
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A Tribute To The Legacy Of Poet And Thinker Langston Hughes

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Los Fabulosos Cadillacs

Muy, Muy Temprano
La Luz Del Ritmo 2009 via Nacional Records
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Buenos Aires Latin-Rock Ensemble Serving Up A Potent Brew OF The World's Flavors

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9:40 am

The Mystix

Going to the River
Can't Change It 2020 via Mystix Records
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Recognized For Their Unique Reinterpretation Of The Blues And Gospel Reaching Back To The 1920's

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Merle Jagger

Three Legged Hog
Rancho Los Angeles 2008 via Lpj Records
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Boiling Out Of The Stills Of LA's Roots Underground

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The Traveling Wilburys

Rattled
Volume 1 1988 via Wilbury Records
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Sung By The Middle Brother Lefty Wilbury, a.k.a. Roy Orbison

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Randall Bramblett

Don't Get Me Started
Pine Needle Fire 2020 via New West
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Athens, GA - Cuts His Studio Chops During The Early Years At Capricorn Studios, Macon, GA

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9:20 am

Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite

South Side Slide
100 Years Of Blues 2020 via Alligator
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New Blues Into The 'YCE Blues Alley

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Johnny Cash

Ragged Old Flag
Ragged Old Flag 1974 via Sony
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Veterans Day, Wednesday November 11 - Thank You Veterans For Your Service

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Ella Fitzgerald And Her Famous Orchestra

I Want The Waiter (With The Water)
The Radio Years, 1940 1999 via Jazz Unlimited
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The Great Chick Webb Ask Her to Join His Orchestra In 1935, Ella Had Just Turned Eighteen - After Webb Passed Away Of Spinal Tuberculous Four Years Later, Ella Took Over As Bandleader; Recording Nearly One-Hundred Fifty Songs By 1942 - 'The First Lady Of Song' Continued A Phenomenal Solo Career For Another Fifty-Years

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Doc & Merle Watson

Below Freezing
Songs Doc Didn't Sing 2020 via Bear Family
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Guests: T. Michael Coleman And Tom Scott - A Collection Of Instrumentals Recorded In The Early Eighties Originally On Flying Fish Records - Recently Re-Released

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Paddygrass

The Lakes Of Pontchartrain
Rooted 2017 via Independent
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Our Good Thoughts For The Residents Of Louisiana And Mississippi Attempting In Restoring Normalcy In The Wake Of Hurricane Zeta, And Those That Came Before

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9:00 am

Porky Cohen

Trombone Porky
Rhythm & Bones 1996 via Bullseye Blues / Pgd
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Michelle Willson, Vocals - A Brash, Big-Boned Trombonist Who Capped A Long, And Varied Career With Grammy Award Recipients "Roomful Of Blues"

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Folk Soul Revival

China Town
Words Off A Tongue 2010 via Folk Soul Revival
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Bristol, VA 2008 - Debut Release Is The Groundwork For The Quintet's Classic Influences And Timeless Twang

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Joachim Cooder

Come Along Buddy
Over That Road I'm Bound (The Songs Of Uncle Dave Macon) 2020 via Nonesuch
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Uncle Dave Wrote It In 1930 But Never Recorded It. A Test Pressing Was Discovered In The Macon Family Holdings In 1980 - Reinterpretations Have Been Handed Down For The Past Forty Years

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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Hundred Miles
Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 2 2020 via Acony
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Second Installment Of Their Home Demo Series; A Third Volume Is Being Planned In The Coming Months - "Snapshots That Captured Moments The More Formal Portraits Missed." Gillian Welch

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8:40 am
Promo - Local Spins on WYCE (click for more info)

Local Spins on WYCE is a 1-hour exploration of the best music from the Grand Rapids area and West Michigan. The program often debuts new songs by seasoned artists as well as emerging acts who merit attention and broader exposure.

The show is hosted by John "SINK-uh-vitch" from LocalSpins.com, the website covering West Michigan's music scene. Each week, John invites local artists into the studio for live music and conversation.

Tune in for "Local Spins on WYCE" every Friday at 11am. And browse every archived episode online at WYCE dot org

Sleepy John Estes

Vernita Blues
Goin' To Brownsville 1998 via Testament (City Hall
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Sleepy John Estes Was Born Into A Sharecropping Family In 1899. During The 1920's Sleepy John Long And Time Associates Hammie Nixon And Yank Rachell Played In Various Jug Band Around Memphis, Gigged Around The Southern Circuit With Robert Nighthawk And Sonny Boy The First, Eventually Recording Their First Thirty Sides In Chicago. Sleepy John Faded Into Obscurity During The 1950's, However, Became An Important And Influential Re-discovery Of The Folk/Blues Revival Of The Early 60's. John Adam Estes Passed Away In 1977

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Sleepy John Estes

Up & Down
Newport Blues 2002 via Delmark
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January 25, 1899 TN - June 5, 1977 TN

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Charles Mingus Septet

My Jelly Roll Soul
Blues & Roots 1960 via Atlantic
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Horace Parlan, Piano......Jimmy Knepper, Trombone...Pepper Adams, Baritone Saxophone...Dannie Richmond, Drums...Booker Ervin, Tenor Saxophone...John Handy, Alto Saxophone...Charles Mingus, Bass - Mingus Had A Talent For Driving His Fellow Musicians Onwards And Upwards; 'My Jelly Roll Soul' Showcases One Of The Six Servings Of This Brilliance

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8:20 am

Blind Lemon Pledge

Ma Belle Cherie
Backwoods Glance 2017 via Independent
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San Francisco, CA

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Gibson Brothers

Somewhere Trouble Don't Go
Iron And Diamonds 2008 via Sugar Hill
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Leigh And Eric Are Out Of Upstate New York

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Guy Clark

El Coyote
My Favorite Picture of You 2013 via Dualtone Music Group
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Would Have Turned 78 This Past Friday

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Appalachian Road Show

Beneath That Willow Tree
Tribulation 2020 via Billy Blue
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Traditional Ballad Folk Song - Listed As Number 410 In The Roud Folk Song Index

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New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers

K.C. Moan (Featuring Charlie Musselwhite)
Volume 1 2020 via Stony Plain
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Reworking The Memphis Jug Band, 1931

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Rayna Gellert

Workin's Too Hard
Workin's Too Hard 2017 via Storysound
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Elkhart, IN

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8:00 am