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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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Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra

Buscando la Melodia
Una Noche Inolvidable (An Unforgettable Night) 2005 via Palmetto Records
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose" Traditions! Returns Nest Week

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John Primer and Bob Corritore

Little Bitty Woman
The Gypsy Woman Told Me 2020 via VizzTone
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Primer Playin' Hot And Corritore Blowin' Sweet! Fresh Blues Into The 'YCE Blues Alley

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Oran Thadeus "Hot Lips" Page

Walkin' In A Daze (78RPM Version)
Hot Lips Page, 1946-1950 2009 via Legacy Recordings
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Dallas, TX - One Of The Five Musicians Who Opened Birdland With Charlie Parker In 1949 - Known As "Mr. After Hours" For His Ability To Take On Challengers In Late Night Jam Sessions - One Of The Giants Of The Swing Era And One Of The Founders Of What Came To Be Known As Rhythm And Blues

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Katie Webster

Zydeco Shoes And California Blues
No Foolin'! 1991 via Alligator Records
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As A Teen, Webster Was Already Hailed As South Louisiana's Reigning Piano Queen - Acknowledged As One Of The Premier Blues Artists Of Her Generation - Session Player Behind Lightnin' Slim And Otis Redding

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Randall Bramblett

Never Be Another Day
Pine Needle Fire 2020 via New West
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Recorded In Roswell, GA - Deeply Played Southern Roots Curated by One Of The Very Best

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Tyler Childers

Sludge River Stomp
Long Violent History 2020 via ATO Records
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Lawrence County, KY - One-Hundred Percent Of the Net Proceeds Support Underserved Communities In The appalachian Region Through The Hickman Holler Appalachian Relief Fund

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The Velvelettes

That's The Reason Why [1963]
The Very Best Of The Velvelettes 1999 via Motown
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Double-Sided Hit - The Group Founded In 1961 By Three Friends Attending Western Michigan University, Signed to Motown That Same Year - A Young Stevie Wonder On Harmonica

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Root Doctor

Respect Yourself
Been A Long Time Coming 2006 via Big O
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HomeGrown! In The Mitten - Their Name Is Derived From the Song "Root Doctor", Recorded By Texas Bluesman Buddy Ace

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9:20 am

Martin Sexton

Supper Time
Mixtape Of The Open Road 2015 via Kitchen Table Records
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Martin's Musical Cross-Country Trip, Blazing Through All Territories Of Style, Cruise Through Time And Place

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Nora Brown

Last Chance
Cinnamon Tree 2019 via Nora Brown Music
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Thirteen Year Old Banjo And Accordian Playing Prodigy - Old-Time Eastern Kentucky Mountain Music Is Her Passion

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A La Carte Brass & Percussion

A Woman, a Love, and a Man
Go-Go & Gumbo, Satchmo N' Soul 1997 via Mapleshade Records
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A La Carte Serves Up A New Orleans Street Band Marinated With A Hot Salsa Percussion Section

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Lonesome Sundown

Gonna Stick To Your Baby [1959]
I'm A Mojo Man: The Best Of the Excello Singles 1995 via Excello
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Spent Time In the 1950's As The Guitarist For The Legendary Clifton Chenier's Zodico Ramblers - Posthumously Inducted Into The Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame

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The Holy Spirits Choir

Khuluma Nami
South African Gospel 1998 via Stern
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Translation: Talk to Me

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9:00 am

Those Darlins

Wild One
Those Darlins 2009 via Thirty Tigers
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The Trio Formed In 2006 After Meeting At The Southern Girls Rock & Roll Camp In Murfreesboro, Tennessee - Dan Auerbach Gave Them An Opening Spot On the Black Keys '08 Tour

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Lafayette Thomas

Lafayette's A-Coming [1959]
Super Rare Electric Blues 2014 via Rockbeat
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Shreveport, LA - Began His Career In 1947 Playing with Al Simmons' Rhythm Rockers; A Year Later Moving Onto Jimmy McCracklin's Band - Recorded For A Number Of Labels - Hardly A Guitarist Around Today who Doesn't Owe A Little Something To Lafayette Thomas

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The Manhatten Transfer

Sing Moten's Swing
Swing 1970 via Columbia
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Tip Of The Hat To The Legendary Kansas City Bandleader, Bennie Moten - This Track Features One Of The Last Guest Appearances By Another Legend, Stephane Grappelli

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the Clancy Brothers & Robbie O'Connell

Those Were The Days
Older But No Wiser 1995 via Vanguard
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Liam Clancy, Lead Vocals Visiting The Mary Hopkin Classic Of Which An English Lyric Was Put To A 1927 Russian Romance Song - The Album Marked the Final Album By The Clancy Brothers', Released Four Decades After The Group's First Album, "The Rising of the Moon"

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Thomas Hine

Into The Bottomlands
Into the Bottomlands 2011 via thm
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Golden, Colorado Poet With A Guitar; A Bob Dylan Mind And Andrew Bird Ear

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Walter "Hooker Joe" Davis

Hello Blues
Walter Davis Vol. 6 1940-1946 1994 via Document
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Blues Spotlight: A Self-Taught Pianist, Delta Born Walter Davis Set Out For St. Louis In The Mid-1920's, A Vibrant Blues Scene That Had Peetie Wheatstraw And Roosevelt Sykes Playing Most Nights. Heavily Influenced By Leroy Carr, Davis Cut His First Record In 1930, Teaming Up With Guitarist Henry Townsend As They Exploited The Fashion For Piano/Guitar Duets. Sometimes Billed As 'Hooker Joe', Davis Output Totalled One-Hundred And Fifty Pieces Recorded In A Twenty-Two Year Period Ending In 1952. A Stroke Put An End To His Career, And He Turned To Religion, Becoming A Preacher For The Rest Of His Days. Walter Davis Passed On In 1963.

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Walter "Hooker Joe" Davis

Come Back Baby
Walter Davis Vol. 5 1939-1940 1994 via Document
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Blues Spotlight: March 1, 1911 MS - October 22, 1963 MO

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Gary Burton & Friends

Poinciana
Departure 1997 via Concord
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'820' Jazz Presents: Peter Erskine, Drums...Fred Hersch, Piano...John Patitucci, Bass...John Scofield, Guitar...Gary Burton, Vibraphone - - - - - - -- The First Album For The Concord Jazz Imprint, Burton And Friends Go Back To Some Of The Most Enduring Compositions In The Jazz Lexicon. Burton's Quintet Reworks "Poinciana", Ahmad Jamal's 1958 Juggernaut.

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8:20 am

Greensky Bluegrass

Past My Prime
Shouted, Written Down & Quoted 2016 via Big Blue Zoo
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Kalamazoo's Cut Above The Rest

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Haas Kowert Tice

Down the Hatch
You Got This 2014 via CD Baby
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The Intricate Virtuosity Of Brittany Haas, Paul Kowert, Jordan Tice - Evolving Into Hawktail In 2017

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Mac Wiseman

Somewhere Bound
I Sang The Song 2017 via Mountain Fever
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Crimora, VA - Began As The Upright Bass Player In The Cumberland Mountain Folks - When Flatt And Scruggs Left Bill Monroe, Wiseman Became The Guitarist For Their New Band, the Foggy Mountain Boys; Later He Played With Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys

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Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller

Come All You Roving Gamblers
Deep End Sessions - Volume II 2015 via Independent
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Emily Bides Her Time As Fiddler And Lead Singer For The 'Sweetback Sisters' Also Heard On 'YCE

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Brent Cobb

This Side Of The River
Keep 'Em On They Toes 2020 via Thirty Tigers
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New Music Into 'YCE

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