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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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Cirque Du Soleil

Amazonia
Saltimbanco 1992 via RCA
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Next Week

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COMPILATIONS

He Calls That Religion
Things About Comin' My Way- A Tribute to the Music of the Mississippi Sheiks 2009 via Black Hen Music
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The Sojourners With Their Gospel-Inflected Working Of The 1932 Recording By The Influential Mississippi Sheiks

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Mary Rademacher

Louisiana Sunday Afternoon
You Hit The Spot 2003 via Sonic Eden Records
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GR Smooth

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B.B. And The Blues Shacks

Can't Be Juliet
Breaking Point 2021 via Rhythm Bomb
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Latest Entry Into The 'YCE Blues Alley

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9:40 am

Hot Mustard

Swampstomp
Mother Sauce 2021 via Color Red
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The First Course For These Rogue Sauciers, Sonically Schooled In The Stax Tradition; Offering Up A Decadent Tasting Menu In Their Debut Release, "Mother Sauce"

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Scott Miller & The Commonwealth

Amtrak Cresent
Reconstruction 2007 via Sugarhill [Country]
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Miller Formed "The Commonwealth" In '99 After The Dissolution Of Knoxville's The "V-Roys" - Miller's Solo Work And The Rockin' Roots Of The 'V-Roys" Is Heard Here On 'YCE

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Billie Holiday

All Or Nothing At All
All Or Nothing At All 1978 via Verve
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A Reissue Of Billie's 1958 Release - The Songs On The Long Play Are Culled From Five Different Recording Sessions In '56 And '57 - The Small Combo Included "Sweets" Edison, Ben Webster, Jimmy Rowles, Red Mitchell, And Barney Kessel

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Tony Bakker & The Mercy Wheel

Into The Mystic
General Reflections On Being Human 2018 via Independent
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HomeSpun GR - Appearance Coming Up At Tripelroot Brewery In Zeeland On 1/28

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9:20 am

Jimmy Rogers

St. Louis
Feelin' Good 1994 via Blind Pig
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One Of The All-Time Greats - Delta-Rooted Chicago Guitarist - 1947 Formed The Nucleus Of Muddy Waters' First Band; Muddy, Little Walter And Jimmy Referring To Themselves As The "Headhunters"

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Don Spezia

Timeless Reprise
Isolation Project 2021 via Independent
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Traverse City Solo Guitarist - First Time Spin On 'YCE

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COMPILATIONS

Tuca' La Louna
Putumayo Presents- Women of the World - Acoustic 2007 via Putumayo World Music
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Tamara Obrovac; Award-Winning Croatian Composer And Flautist

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COMPILATIONS

Mandan Heartbreak Song
The Makoche Masters 2005 via Makoche Records
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Keith Bear - World Renowned Mandan-Hidatsa Storyteller, Musician And Educator From The Three Affiliated Tribes In North Dakota -

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Moreland & Arbuckle

Tell Me Why
1861 2008 via Northern Blues
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Aaron Moreland, Dustin Arbuckle and Kendall Newby Put the Band Together In Kansas City - Moreland Playing a Handmade Electric Cigar Box

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John Doyle

Little Sparrow
Shadow and Light 2011 via Compass Records
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We Got To Know John During The Early '90s As The Co-Founder Of "Solas"

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Over The Moon

Someday Soon
Chinook Waltz 2021 via Borealis
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An Award-Winning Canadian Roots Duo With A Wonderful Working By Another Canadian Roots Duo; Folk Music Legends Ian & Sylvia - Ian Tyson Wrote In 1963, Reflecting Upon His Youth As a Rodeo Rider; An On-The-Job Injury Ended That Career, And The Beginning Of A Sixty Year Career Soon Followed

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Jack Klatt

Behind The 8 Ball
Shadows In The Sunset 2016 via Different Folk
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Minneapolis, MN - Recorded This Album In a 100 Year-Old Wisconsin Church- Klatt's Past Pedigree As Him Recording Alongside Spider John Koerner

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Anne Hills

Follow That Road
Angle Of The Light 1995 via Flying Fish Records
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Grew Up In Michigan; Studied At Interlochen Center For The Arts - 1976: Co-Founded Hogeye Records Label, Bought Out By Flying Fish Records A Decade Later

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COMPILATIONS

Guitar Swing
Great Blues Guitarists- String Dazzlers 1991 via Sony
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Blues Spotlight: Casey Bill Weldon & The Brown Bombers Of Swing [1938] - One Of The Most Enigmatic Artists During The Formative Years Of The Blues, Casey Bill Weldon Has Gone Down In History As The Best Lap Steel And Hawaiian-Style Guitarist Of The Pre-War Era, Solo And As A Member Of Several Bands Including The Hokum Boys, The Washboard Rhythm Kings, And Peetie Wheatstraw. Weldon Traversed The South In Medicine Shows Before A Recording Career Beginning In 1927, Including Two Influential Recordings With Memphis Minnie. Casey Bill Disappeared From The Public Eye In 1938; His Playing Method Had A Monumental Impact On The Emerging Chicago Blues Style. William Weldon Passed On In 1972

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William "Casey Bill" Weldon

Back Door Blues [1936]
Bottleneck Guitar Trendsetters Of The 1930s 1992 via Yazoo
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Blues Spotlight: February 2, 1901 AR - September 28, 1972 MO

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Toots Thielemans

Bluesette
The Brasil Project 1992 via Private Music
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'820' Jazz Presents: The Brazil Project, Recorded Summer 1991 - A Tasteful Bunch Of Classic Songs From The Brazilian Songbook, And Toots Teams Up With The Composers Of Those Songs To Re-Interpret Them. - - - - - Ivan Lins And Dori Caymmi, Vocals... Oscar Castro-Neves,Guitar... Ricardo Silvera, Percussion, Eliane Elias, Piano...Brian Bromberg, Bass...Mike Shapiro, Drums...Toots Thielemans, Harmonica

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8:20 am

Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys

Gotta travel On
The Very Best Of Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys 2005 via Mca Nashville
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Vintage Monroe

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Lonesome River Band

Solid Rock
Old Country Town 1994 via Sugarhill [Country]
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Grassin' Gospel - Celebrating Forty-Years Together With A Healthy '022 Tour Schedule; On Stage At The Milan Bluegrass Festival 8/4

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Charley Crockett

Smoky
Music City USA 2021 via Son Of Davy
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Tenth In Six Years Is A Double Long Play Is An Old-School Vibe And Modern Edge

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Annie & Rod Capps

Crocodile Man
My Blue Garden 2009 via Yellow Room Records
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The Mitten's Rootsin' Duo Taking Dave Carter And Tracy Grammer Undercover - One Can Find Dave And Tracy's Rendering On 'Tanglewood Tree'

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Dawg Yawp

East Virginia Blues
Dawg Yawp 2016 via Old Flame
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Cincinnati, OH - A.P. Carter Adapted Lyrics To The Song From Another Southern Mountains Song, "Old Virginny" - Origins Tracing To Back To Seventeenth-Century England

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Modern Mandolin Quartet

Hoedown
Intermezzo 1990 via Windham Hill Records
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Formed In The Mid-'80s As The Brainchild Of Mike Marshall - Past Member Of The David Grisman Quintet - Co-Founder Of "Psychograss" With Darol Anger; All Heard Here On 'YCE

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