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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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Great Lakes Art Music Ensemble

Otono Porteno
Latin Dance Project 2010 via White Pine Music
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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La India Canela

Mangulina Medley
Merengue Tipico from the Dominican Republic 2008 via Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
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Dominion Republic - Merengue Tipico: The Oldest Style Of Merengue, Emphasizing The Music's Traditional Nature; Origins Dating Back To The 1850s

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COMPILATIONS

Well All Right
Rave On Buddy Holly 2011 via HEAR MUSIC
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Kid Rock - A Tribute Celebration Observing What Would Have Been Buddy's Seventy-Fifth Birthday

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Jason Boland & The Stragglers

A Tornado & The Fool
The Light Saw Me 2021 via Thirty Tigers
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The Leading Ambassadors Of The Oklahoma And Texas Music Movement

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9:40 am

Kathy Wagner

Sweet Georgia Brown
Taking A Chance On Love 1994
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GR Jazzin' - One-Time Vocalist For River City Jazz Ensemble - Internationally Known For Making The World's Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

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(REQUESTED)

Ry Cooder

Medley- Fool for a Cigarette-Feelin' Good
Paradise and Lunch 1974 via Reprise / Wea
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Taj Mahal Rejoins Cooder For The New Album - Get On Board, The Songs Of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Due 4/22 - Joachim Cooder Supplying Percussion On The Session

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Father John Misty

Funny Girl
Chloe and the Next 20th Century 2022 via Sub Pop
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In Between A Successful Solo Career The Past Twenty-Eight Years, Misty Joined Fleet Foxes For A Four-Year Stint And Opened Up For Damian Jurado In The Early Days - Both Heard Here On 'YCE

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Luther Dickinson & Sisters Of The Strawberry Moon

Hallelujah (I'm a Dreamer) [feat. Amy LaVere)
Solstice 2019 via New West Records
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A Musical Pot-Luck With A Few Old Friends

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9:20 am

Betty Jo And Johnny Starr

Peach Picking Time In Georgia
Too Blues To Cry 2020 via AMB
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1949 - Progenitors Laying The Groundwork For Early Roots Rock With A Working Of The Jimmie Rodgers Classic

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COMPILATIONS

Ghosts Of Hallelujah
From Hell To Breakfast- A Taste Of Sugar Hill's Texas Singer-Songwriters 2002 via Sugarhill [Country]
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Austin, TX - The Gourds: Currently On Hiatus - Good-Timin', Honky Tonkin' With Enough Quirk And Underground Appeal To Give It A Delicious Edge

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Kotch

Ooh Baby, Baby
Kotch 1989 via Fontana Island
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Laying Down A Rock-Steady Beat To Classic Smokey Robinson & the Miracles

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Fisk Jubilee Singers

Rock My Soul (feat. The Fairfield Four)
Celebrating Fisk! (The 150th Anniversary Album) 2020 via Curb
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American Gospel Group That Has Existed For Over 90 Years, Starting As A Trio In 1921 - Featured Briefly In The 2000 Movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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COMPILATIONS

Untold Story
Women of Spirit 1998 via Putumayo World Music
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Sibongile Khumalo - Internationally Acclaimed Singer - Born Into A Dynasty Of Musicians - Virtuoso Vocalist Whose Ease Of Motion Between Opera, Jazz And South African Traditional Music Made Her A Symbol Of The Country's New Social Order After The End Of Apartheid

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9:00 am
Listening Room - Crooked Spires (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from Listening Room: An intimate 200-seat venue located on the second floor of Studio Park at 123 Ionia Ave Southwest in Downtown Grand Rapids. 

On Friday, April 22nd, Listening Room welcomes Crooked Spires at 7:30PM.  

Crooked Spires is a West Michigan based psych-rock with soul trio that blends alternative, roots, and garage influences, through original songwriting ranging from melodically sweet and soulful to dirty driving hooks.

Tickets and details available at Listening Room G-R dot com or by visiting the cinema box office inside Studio Park.

Crooked Spires live at the Listening Room on Friday, April 22nd!

Mark Knopfler

Cannibals
Golden Heart 1996 via Warner Bros / Wea
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Debut Solo Album Following A Successful Career At The Helm Of Dire Straits

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Calexico

The El Burro Song
El Mirador 2022 via ANTI
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First Full-Length Album In Four Years

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Jewel

Half Life
Freewheelin' Woman 2022 via Independent
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Michigan Appearance: Pine Knob Music Theater, Clarkston 7/12

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Ted Hawkins

California Song
Happy Hour 1986 via Rounder / Pgd
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Biloxi, MS - Overseas, Hawkins Was A Genuine Hero, Performing For Thousands. But On His L.A. Home Turf, Sand-Blown Venice Beach Served As Ted's Makeshift Stage; Mostly An Anonymous Street Performer

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Bonny Light Horseman

Lowlands
Bonny Light Horseman 2020 via 37d03d
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Grammy-Award Winner For Best Folk Album - Scoured The Distant, Dusty Past To Revive Songs Handed Down Through The Ages, Many Of Them Hundreds Of Years Old: Josh Kaufman, Eric D. Johnson, Anais Mitchell

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8:40 am
Promo - Submit Music (click for more info)

Are you a Michigan musician or know of a few talented artists?

Submit an album to 88.1 FM WYCE for airplay consideration. 

View a how-to guide by visiting WYCE dot org and then click on the "Connect" tab to see the steps to add a local album to our WYCE music library!

Paula Watson

I Love To Ride
Ultimate Blues Divas 2016 via Sunset
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Blues Spotlight: Performing As A Rowdy Vocalist And Rigorous Pianist Who Could Lay Down A Mean Boogie-Woogie Blues, Paula Watson Played The Circuit Throughout The Deep South Prior To Relocating To The West Coast During The 1940's. Signing With Supreme Records, Miss Watson's Chart Success Was Short-Lived . In 1949 Decca Records Came Knocking And Insisted She Take Her Music In A More Conservative Direction, The Recordings Were Unsuccessful. Unable To Capture The Magic Once Again, Paula Watson Left The United States In the 1960's, Worked The Cabaret Theaters Throughout Europe For A Number Of Years, Passing On In Sweden 2003.

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COMPILATIONS

Pretty Papa Blues
Midnite Blues Party, Vol. 2- Rare Blues and R&B 2003 via Independent
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Blues Spotlight: Paula Watson - September 9, 1927 AL - October 19, SE

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Houston Person

Tenderly
The Art and Soul Of Houston Person 2008 via Highnote
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'820 Jazz Presents: Stan Hope, Piano...Teddy Edwards, Tenor Saxophone...Ray Drummond, Bass...Kenny Washington, Drums...Houston Person, Tenor Saxophone - A Record Featuring Selections From Many Of Houston Person's Earlier Works Dating To His Solo Beginnings In 1966 For The Prestige Label. Soul Jazz Was His Palette - His Preferred Configuration, Quintet. Here, We Find Him In Very Fine Company

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8:20 am

Full Cord

Silvertone Blues
Hindsight 2021 via Independent
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'YCE Jammie-Award Recipients

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O'Connor Band & Mark O'Connor

Shady Grove (Live)
O'Connor Band Live! 2017 via OMAC Records
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Appalachian Folk Song (Roud Index 4456) - Originated In Eastern Kentucky The Beginning Of The 20th Century - A Favorite Among Old-Time Musicians Of The Cumberland Mountains - Identified As A Courting Song

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Various/Unknown Artist

Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Will the Circle be Unbroken 1972 via Capitol
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Vintage Vinyl Spin: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band With Mother Maybelle Carter, Jimmy Martin, And Roy Acuff On Lead Vocals - The Session Reflects How The Dirt Band Was Trying To Tie Together Two Generations Of Musicians - This Session Stands Witness To The First Meeting Of Doc Watson And Merle Travis

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Jayme Stone

I Want To Hear Somebody Pray
The Lomax Project 2015 via Borealis
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Guest Vocals; Margaret Glaspy - The Songs Origin: Originally Recorded By Alan Lomax Participating In A Tombstone Feast During A Visit To The Grenadines In 1962

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David Greely

McGee's a Minor Waltz
Sud Du Sud 2008 via Independent
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Member Of Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys Exploring The Subtleties Of Louisiana French Music, easily Lost In Cajun Bars And Dancehalls

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8:00 am
Listening Room - Crooked Spires (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from Listening Room: An intimate 200-seat venue located on the second floor of Studio Park at 123 Ionia Ave Southwest in Downtown Grand Rapids. 

On Friday, April 22nd, Listening Room welcomes Crooked Spires at 7:30PM.  

Crooked Spires is a West Michigan based psych-rock with soul trio that blends alternative, roots, and garage influences, through original songwriting ranging from melodically sweet and soulful to dirty driving hooks.

Tickets and details available at Listening Room G-R dot com or by visiting the cinema box office inside Studio Park.

Crooked Spires live at the Listening Room on Friday, April 22nd!