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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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Agatsuma

Fun
Beams 2003 via Domo Records
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Jeannie C. Riley

Backside Of Dallas
Things Go Better With Love 1969 via Capitol
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Classic Jeannie C.!

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Dr. John

Little Liza Jane
Dr. John's Gumbo 1972 via Atlantic
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One Of The Standards Of The New Orleans Brass Band Tradition, First Published In 1916

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COMPILATIONS

I Love My Lovin' Lover
Wild About That Thing- Ladies Sing the Blues 2003 via Delmark
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Betty Roche, 1944 - With the Earl Hines Sextet - A Sporadic Career, Sang With Lester Young And Hot Lips Page - During The 1940's Performed At Minton's Playhouse With Thelonious Monk And Kenny Clarke

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Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

Oh, I
The Future 2021 via Stax/Fantasy
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Third Full-Length Release From The Band - The Eight-Piece Collective Navigating New Territories Together Tempered With The Soulful R&B Of Their Beloved St. Louis

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9:40 am
(REQUESTED)

Shannon And The Clams

How Long
Gone by the Dawn 2015 via Hardly Art
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Oakland, CA - A Vintage Sound That Incorporates Elements Of Doo-Wop, Classic R&B, Garage Psych, And Surf - Tunes From The Latest Long-Play "Year Of The Spider" Are Heard Here On 'YCE

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Joe Wilson and Drew Howard

Library Swing
Steels Heal The World 2007 via Fox on a Hill
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Mitten Swingin'!

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COMPILATIONS

Need Shelter - Jaime Wyatt
Highway Butterfly [The Songs of Neal Casal] 2021 via Royal Potato Family
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A Well-Rounded Tribute To The Late Singer/Songwriter

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King Edward Antoine

Today I Started Loving You Again
King Edward: 50 Years Of Blues 2015 via Edward Memphis Antoine
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Running Through Merle Haggard's Classic - The Authenticity Of A Mississippi Bluesman Is Felt Down Deep - King Is Honored On Three Blues Markers On The Mississippi Blues Trail

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9:20 am

Little Eva

Uptown
LIIIIoco-Motion 1962 via Parlophone
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Written By Cynthia Weil And Barry Mann For The Crystals In 1962 - That Same Year Litta Eva Released It As The B-Side To Up On The Roof, Written By Another Brill Building Songwriting Team, Carole King And Gerry Goffin - Little Eva Was Hot Off The Locomotion

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Nick Lowe

Poor Side of Town
The Convincer 2001 via Yep Roc Records
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Reworking The 1966 Multi-Chart Topper By Johnny Rivers, Recently Celebrating Number 79 - The Reissue Of The Twenty-Year Anniversary Of "The Convincer", A Quintessential Portrait Of Lowe's Third Act. The Album's Unfussy, Minimalist Production Harkens Back To The Early Days When Nick Was Called Basher, Satisfied After The First Or Second Take - Moving On To The Next Thrill, A Breakneck Pace Reflected In The Music He Made With And Without 'Rockpile'

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Hank Penny And His Radio Cowboys

Army Blues [1941]
Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950 1992 via Sony
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Practitioner Of Western Swing, Modeling The Radio Cowboys' Repertoire On Milton Brown And His Musical Brownies; Brown The Co-Founder Of Western Swing

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COMPILATIONS

GODS GOT HIS EYES ON YOU - THE DIXIELAND SINGERS
The Last Shall Be First [The JCR Records Story] 2020 via Bible & Tire/Fat Possum
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A Collection Of Some Old Spirituals And Gospel, First Recorded In Memphis During The1970's; A Lost Chapter Of Gospel, Saved From Extinction

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Ammar El Sherei

Gafnoho
Oriental Music (1976) 2020 via WEWANTSOUNDS
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A True Colossus Of Egyptian Music - A Child Prodigy Who Grew To Become Both A Daring Innovator And A Celebrated Composer

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9:00 am

The Bellfuries

Under The Light Of The Moon
Workingman's Bellfuries 2015 via Histyle
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Lakewood, OH

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Dee Dee Bridgewater

B.A.B.Y.
Memphis... Yes, I'm Ready 2017 via Okeh
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Composers: Isaac Hayes And Dave Porter, 1966 - Dee Dee Returning To Her Birthtown Of Memphis And Recording A Few Of The Iconic Sounds Of That City

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Edison Kitt

Tomorrow's Another Day
Whiskey Ramblings 2021 via Independent
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GR Vibe - Edison Kitt & The Strangers At The Tip Top Deluxe On 11/19; Stovepipe Opening

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John Gorka

The Ballad of Iris & Pearl
True In Time 2018 via Blue Chalk
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Gorka And Richard Shindell Formed The Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band Early On - John Gorka Has Always Been Able To Spin A Good Yarn

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Eddie From Ohio

Bleecker to Broadway
Looking Out The Fishbowl 1999 via Virginia Soul
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Northern VA 1999 - Observing Thirty-Years Together - Nationwide Following, All Outside The Purview Of Major Record Labels

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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

Tony Hollins

Stamp Blues [1941]
Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950 1992 via Sony
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Cited As A Major Influence On John Lee Hooker, Few Details Are Known Of The Life Of Tony Hollins. His First Recordings In 1941 Included A Performance Of Crawlin' King Snake, Serving As The Blueprint For John Lee's Own Later Rendition. Recording Sporadically Throughout The Forties, Hollins Failed To Maintain A Career As A Musician, Opting To Continue His Trade As A Barber. Tony Hollins Passed On In 1957

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Tony Hollins

Fishin' Blues [1948]
Chicago Blues Vol. 1 1939- 1994 via Document
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Blues Spotlight: June 25, 1909 MS - January ? 1957 IL

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Grant Green Qunitet

Outer Space
Born to Be Blue 1962 via Blue Note
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'820' Jazz Presents: Ike Quebec, Tenor Saxophone...Sonny Clark, Piano...Sam Jones, Bass...Louis Hayes, Drums...Grant Green, Guitar - - - - - - - A 1962 Recording Session For Blue Note Records, Engineered By Rudy Van Gelder, And Not Seeing The Light Of For Twenty-Five Years. Green Is One Of The Great Unsung Heroes Of Jazz Guitar, A Severely Underrated Player During His Lifetime, And Like Stanley Turrentine, Tends To Be Left Out Of The Books. Green's Roots Is the Hard-Bop Idiom, And It Is In This Setting With A Quintet Complement He Excels. This Morning's Feature Track Is Outer Space, And We Hear It From Vintage Vinyl

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8:20 am

Joshua Ray Walker

Love Songs
Wish You Were Here 2019 via State Fair
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Once The Best-Kept Secret On Dallas' Music Scene, "Wish You Were Here" Is The First Album Of A Trilogy Song Cycle Using Honky-Tonk As A Setting, and The Misfits Who Call It Home

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Town Mountain

Lazy River
New Freedom Blues 2018 via Independent
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Pickin' It Sweet From The Blue Ridge Mountains

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COMPILATIONS

Hangman's Reel - The String Beings
Oasis Acoustic Volume 4 1997 via Oasis
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Traditional Irish Reel

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COMPILATIONS

Mud and Dust and Blood and Silver - The Acousticats
Oasis Acoustic Volume 4 1997 via Oasis
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The Quintet's Straight-Ahead Virtuosity Was A Constant Force On the West Coast Roots Scene In The Early 1990's

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Kathy Kallick

My Old Clinch Mountain Home
Call Me A Taxi 1996 via Sugarhill [Country]
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A True Heroine In The Pantheon Of Bluegrass Musicians - A.P. Carter Wrote The Song In 1928, Adapting The Lyrics From A Late Nineteenth Century Parlour Song

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8:00 am