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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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Dr. Lonnie Smith

Bright Eyes [Live]
Breathe 2021 via Blue Note
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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The Bamboos

While You Sleep (Feat. Ev Jones)
Hard Up 2021 via BMG
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Melbourne, AU 2001 - Inspired By The Instrumental Raw Funk Of The Late '60's And Early '70's - These Guys Are The Real Deal! fresh Into The 'YCE Blues Alley

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Travis Linville

Blue Sky Bound
I'm Still Here 2021 via Black Mesa
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New Alubm - A Hint Of Tom Petty's Jangle and Gritty Determination

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Monica Da Silva

Nao Moro Num Pais Tropical
brasilissima 2010 via CD BABY.COM/INDYS
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GR Global Groove; Also, A Member Of 'Complicated Animals', And Of Course Heard Here On 'YCE

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9:40 am

Elvis Presley

Blue Moon of Kentucky
Sunrise 1954 via Sun Records
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Composer: Bill Monroe, 1945 - The Song Got The Sun Studio Treatment By Elvis And His Band, Scotty Moore And Bill Black, Turning The Monroe Waltz Into A Toe-Tapping Rockabilly Shake - 'Blue Moon' Served As The B-Side For 'That's All Right', Both Tunes Storming Up The Charts In 1954

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Rory Block

Grinnin' in Your Face
Blues Walkin' Like a Man: A Tribute To Son House 2008 via Stony Plain Music
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Edward James "Son" House March 21, 1902 - October 19, 1988 - The Third Release In Block's Mentor Series

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Steve Cropper

Say You Don't Know Me
Fire It Up 2021 via Provogue
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Special Guest Simon Kirke, Drums (Free And Bad Company) First Solo Album Since 1969 - Seven Decades Long Career - Guitarist For The Stax House Band Booker T. & The MG's

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Dave Sharp

Twistin' Wind
Downtown America 1996 via Dinosaur
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Co-Founding Member Of Welch New Wave Band 'The Alarm'

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Jerry Alfred & the Medicine Beat

Nendaa-Go Back
Nendaa- Go Back 1996 via Red House
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Was Named "Keeper Of The Songs" At Birth, An Honorary Title, A Position That Handed Down The Responsibility Of Collecting Traditional Songs And Performing At Ceremonial Events Of The Selkirk First Nation, Yukon Territory

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9:20 am
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Chuck Mead

Wabash Cannonball
Back At The Quonset Hut 2012 via Ramseur
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Old Crow Medicine Show Guesting - Anonymous Hobos In The Late 19th Century Made Up The Song Paying Homage To Specific Trains Along The Routes Of The Lake Erie, Wabah And St. Louis Railroad Company. William Kindt Published Sheet Music In 1904 - Roy Acuff's 1938 Version Sold Over Ten Million Records

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Leon Russell

Dixie Flyer
Leon Russell 1969 via The Right Stuff
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The Release Of Leon's Eponymous Debut Album Turned Fifty-One A Short Time Ago - One Of The Pioneering Forces Of The Tulsa Sound - Member Of LA's Famed Wrecking Crew - A Musician Of Extraordinary Talents - We Lost Leon Five Years Ago

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Strung Like A Horse

Pelahatchie Nights
Whoa! 2020 via Independent
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Chattanooga, TN - Debut Album

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COMPILATIONS

Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread
Shout, Sister, Shout- A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe 2003 via M.C. Records
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Odetta And The Holmes Brothers - Rock 'N' Roll Was Bred Between The Church And The Nightclubs In The 1940's By Sister Rosetta Tharpe; Long Before Elvis, Little Richard And Johnny Cash Swiveled Their Hips And Strummed Their Guitars - It Was Sister Rosetta, Who Turned This Burgeoning Musical Style Into An International Sensation

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Lilly's Chapel School

Mary Mack
Negro Folk Music Of Alabama, Vol. 6: Ring Game Songs And Others 1954 via Smithsonian Folkways
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A Clapping Game First Attested To In The Book "The Counting Out Rhymes Of Children" Published In 1888

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Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers

Walk Right In [1929]
Blues & Roots Originals, Vol. 1 2020 via 78 Digital
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The Origins Of Jug Bands Can Be Traced To Louisville, Kentucky Around The Turn Of The 20th Century - A Healthy Slice Of Tunes From The Jug Stompers Songbook Have Been Recorded By The Grateful Dead; Becoming Staples In The Dead's Repertoire

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9:00 am
Spring Fund Drive 2021 | THANK YOU (click for more info)

Thank you to everyone who tuned in and supported WYCE during our Spring Fund Drive!


Our listeners stepped up to help us reach our goal to keep A World of Music alive in West Michigan and beyond. Our listeners are also helping us grow! 

If you did not get a chance to to support YOUR community radio station you can still make a donation at WYCE dot org to keep us powered. 

From all of us here at WYCE - THANK YOU! 

The Wallflowers

I Hear the Ocean (When I Wanna Hear Trains)
Exit Wounds 2021 via New West
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The Latest Release By the Los Angeles Based Multiple Gammy Award Recipients

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The Muteflutes

Legacy
The Ballad of the Rebel Grape 2012 via Independent
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HomeGrown

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Malinky

The Shipyard Apprentice
Flower & Iron 2008 via Mad River Records
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Edinburgh, Sct 1998 - Exclusive Concentration Is On Scots Traditional Song And Instrumentation

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Pieta Brown

Letter In Hand
Paradise Outlaw 2014 via Red House
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Brown's Sixth Recorded In Four Days With Minimal Overdubs - The Album's Name Is Borrowed From The Title Of A Book Of Photographs And Essays About ''The Beats"

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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

James Edgar "Wild Jimmy" Spruill

Cut And Dried
Single 1964 via Enjoy Records
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A Top Notch, In-Demand NYC Based Session Guitarist Whose Guitar Solos Were Featured On Many R&B Recordings During The 1950's And '60's. Learning to Play On a Cigar Box Guitar, Wild Jimmy Graduated To A Fender Telecaster, And In His Later Career To A Gibson Les Paul Which He Modified By Sawing Off Most Of The Body, And Founded A Nightclub Trio For Most Of The 1960's. Working Odd Jobs For The Next Twenty Years, Spruill Worked Occasional Gigs The Final Decade Of His Life. James Edgar Spruill Passed On In 1996.

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James Edgar "Wild Jimmy" Spruill

Scratch 'N' Twist
Everlast Records Complete 1958 via Everlast
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June 9, 1934 NC - February 3, 1996 NY

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Thelonius Monk & John Coltrane

Sweet and Lovely
At Carnegie Hall 2005 via Blue Note Records
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'820' Jazz Presents: Shadow Wilson, Drums...Ahmad Abdul-Malik, Bass...John Coltrane, Tenor Saxophone...Thelonious Monk, Piano - - - - - - - - Documents One Of The Most Historically Important Working Bands In All Of Jazz History, A Band That Was Both Short-Lived And, Until Now, Thought To Be Frustratingly Under-Recorded. The Monk Quartet With A Still Flexing-His-Wings John Coltrane Ran Through Two Flawless Sets That Evening, A 1957 Thanksgiving Jazz Benefit Concert Captured On Tape By The Voice Of America For Broadcast Overseas At A Later Date.The Tape Was Stored At The Library Of Congress Where It Sat Untouched For Forty-Eight Years. In 2005 The Recording Was Discovered In A Loosely-Labeled Storage Box By A Recording Lab Supervisor. This Discovery Substantially Increased Coverage Of Monk And Coltrane's Partnership; The Only Other Recordings Known Are From 4 Sessions That Took Place In The Spring And Summer Of 1957.

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8:20 am

COMPILATIONS

Josh Williams, Bradley Walker, and Russell Moore - Larry Sparks Medley Dark Hollow A Face in the Crowd These Old Blues
Industrial Strength Bluegrass [Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy] 2021 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Larry Sparks Raised In Lebanon, Ohio, And An Integral Component Of SW Ohio's 'Grass Legacy - International Bluegrass Music Association Male Vocalist, Album And Recorded Event Of The Year Recipient

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Sturgill Simpson

Old King Coal
Cuttin' Grass, Vol. 1 2020 via Thirty Tigers
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Jackson County, KY - The Tracks Laid Down At The Butcher Shoppe Recording Studio - A Nice Overview Of Simpson Performing 'Grass Versions Of Highlights From His Back Catalog, Revealing The Hidden Roots Of His Idiosyncratic Songwriting

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Leo Kottke

Vaseline Machine Gun
6 & 12 String Guitar 1969 via Takoma
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The Second Release Showcases Kottke's Early, Hard-Driving Polyphonic Finger-Picking Acrobats, Recorded In Three And A Half Hours - This Album Had A Major Influence On Guitarist The Late Michael Hedges

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Albert & Gage

I Used To Be Lonesome
Burnin' Moonlight 2001 via Moonhouse Records
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Husband/Wife Duo Christine Albert And Chris Gage - Master Musicians For Decades On The Austin Music Scene

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The Stray Birds

Loretta
Echo Sessions 2013 via Independent
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Undercover: Townes Van Zandt - The Lancaster County Trio Started As A Duo Of Acoustic Buskers In 2010 - The Trio Will Fly As A Flock No Longer, Disbanding A Couple Of Years Ago To Pursue Individual Endeavors

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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris

Waltz Across Texas Tonight (Unreleased 1994)
The Complete Trio Collection (Deluxe) 2016 via Warner
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Originally Recording During The 'Trio' Sessions In 1987 - Emmylou Celebrating Number 74 A Few Weeks Ago

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8:00 am
Spring Fund Drive 2021 | THANK YOU (click for more info)

Thank you to everyone who tuned in and supported WYCE during our Spring Fund Drive!


Our listeners stepped up to help us reach our goal to keep A World of Music alive in West Michigan and beyond. Our listeners are also helping us grow! 

If you did not get a chance to to support YOUR community radio station you can still make a donation at WYCE dot org to keep us powered. 

From all of us here at WYCE - THANK YOU!