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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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Robin Connell

Love For Sale
Travelin' 1990 via Independent
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Leave Me Alone
The Rough Guide to American Roots 2003 via World Music Network
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Rosie Ledet

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Randy Newman

Mama Told Me Not to Come
The Best of Randy Newman 2001 via Rhino / Wea
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Original Album, 12 Songs, 1970 - The Narrator Is A Sheltered And Extraordinarily Straitlaced Young Man, Who Recounts What Is Presumably His First "wild" Party In The Big City - Recalling That MHis Mama Told Him Not To Come

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Lucille Bogan

Watcha Gonna Do?
The Best of 2004 via Sony
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With Pianist Walter Roland, 1933 - One Of "The Big Three Of The Blues", Along With Ma Rainey And Bessie Smith - Considered To Have Been A Dirty Blues Musician - Inducted Into The Blues Hall Of Fame - Appears Not To Have Recorded After 1935

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Benny Goodman Trio & Quartet

the blues in my flat
Avalon- The Small Bands, Vol. 2 (1937-1939) 1990 via RCA
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Benny Goodman Quartet, 1938 - Goodman Led One Of The Most Popular Swing Big Bands In The United States, And One Of The First Integrated Jazz Groups, His Quartet And Quintet Configurations

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9:40 am

Etta James

Tell Mama
Her Best 1997 via MCA
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Original Album; Tell Mama, 1968 - Recorded At FAME Studios, Muscle Shoals Alabama - Mama Knows Best!

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John Doe

Never Coming Back
Fables in a Foreign Land 2022 via Fat Possum
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John Doe Folk Trio - On This Album, The Song Cycles Are Set In The Pre-Industrial Era

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Olu Dara

Out on the Rolling Sea
Neighborhoods 2001 via Atlantic
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Leading Trumpet Player In The Avant-Garde Loft-Jazz Scene In The 1960s - Father Of Naz

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New Born Soul
The Rough Guide to American Roots 2003 via World Music Network
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The Staple Singers,1962 - Highly-Honored, Including A Marker On The Mississippi Blues Trail In Drew, Mississippi

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John Dee Holeman & The Waifs Band - Comin' Home To You
Putumayo Presents Blues Cafe 2022 via Putumayo
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Hillsborough, NC - Piedmont Blues Guitarist Drawing Inspiration From Blind Boy Fuller - Rarely Recorded As Music Was a Part-Time Pursuit - Did Record With Taj Mahal In The Late '80s - That Same Year The National Endowment For the Arts Presented Holeman With A National Heritage Fellowship -

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9:20 am

Swamp Cabbage

Vaudeville
Jive 2016 via Self Released
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One Of The Many Instrumental Oddities That Make Up The Repertoire Of Swamp Cabbage - The Band Take Their Name From A Rustic Delicacy Called Swamp Cabbage; The Natives American Tribes Of NE Florida Harvested And Stewed The Heart Of The Sabal Palm Tree - Rarely Served Today, The Dish Still Lingers As A Vestige Of The "Real" Florida

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Rickie Lee Jones

Dat Dere
Pop Pop 1991 via Geffen
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Rickie Lee's Covers Album From Jazz And Blues Standards To Tin Pan Alley - "Dat Dere" Was Composed By Bobby Timmons, And Recorded by Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers In 1960 - Joe Henderson Appears On Tenor Saxophone And Charlie Haden, Acoustic Bass

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Dennis Kamakahi

'Ahulili
Pua 'ena 1996 via Windham Hill Records
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Celebrating Asian-American & Pacific Islander Month - Hawaiian Music Is Rooted In Old Religious Chants And Hymns, Which The Native Hawaiians Then Mixed With The Musical Rhythms, Sounds And Instruments They Heard From International Visitors, Immigrants And Missionaries

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The Tahitian Choir

Oparo
Rapa Iti 1992 via Triloka Records
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Celebrating Asian-American & Pacific Islander Month - The Migration From Southeast Asia To French Polynesia Can Be Traced Back Four-Thousand Years - Polynesian Rhythms And Dances Are A Direct Form Of Cultural And Spiritual Communication, Celebrating The Resilience Of Polynesian Culture To Overcome And Maintain Their Sacred Expressions Of Life, Recounting Old Legends And Praise The Ancestral Divinities

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So Duang 'The Sad King'
The Rough Guide to the Music of Thailand 2003 via World Music Network
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Celebrating Asian-American & Pacific Islander Month - The Music Of Thailand Reflects Its Geographic Position At The Intersection Of China And India - Traditional Musical Instruments Are Varied And Reflect Ancient Influence, Emerging From Central Thailand Eight-Hundred Years Ago

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9:00 am

Big Walter Horton

What's The Matter With You (Take 2)
Mouth Harp Maestro 1988 via Ace (U.K.)
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Harmonica Virtuoso Renowned For His Innovative Contributions To The Music Of Memphis And Chicago - Big Walter's Technique And Tone Continue To Be Studied And Emulated By Harmonica Players Around The World

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Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison

9,999,999 Tears
Cheater's Game 2012 via Preminum Records
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Undercover: Dickey Lee (A Songwriters Songwriter; George Jones Gave Dickey His First Chart Success In 1962)

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Four Bitchin' Babes

My Mother's Hands
Fax It! Charge It! Don't Ask Me What's for Dinner! 1995 via Shanachie
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Mothers Day 2022: Honoring Mothers, Motherhood, Maternal Bonds, And The Influence Of Mothers In Society

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Ian Noe

Appalachia Haze
River Fools & Mountain Saints 2022 via Thirty Tigers
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Hazard County, KY

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8:40 am

COMPILATIONS

Have Mercy Baby
Midnite Blues Party 2002 via Electro-Fi Records
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Blues Spotlight; Buddy Lamp - Was Born In Mississippi And Grew Up In Detroit. His First Recordings Were Gospel With The Lampkin Singers. Lloyd Price Brought Him To New York To Record For Gone Records, And These Sessions Would Moved Him Into More Obvious Soul Territory, And Form The Basis Of His Reputation As A Motor City Vocalist. Lamp Recorded For Several Small Labels in Detroit And These Sessions Proved Very Successful; His R&B Releases Were Impressive Even Attracting The Memphis Horns On A Few Tracks. Relocating To Houston In 1969 Lamp Cut A Few Sides For The Duke Label But Failed To Spark Any Interest, The Magic Was Gone. Willie Lee "James Buddy" Lampkin Passed On 2007.

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Jimmy Lamp

You've Got The Lovin' Touch
The Magic Of Detroit, Volume One 2006 via Omnimedia
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Blues Spotlight: July 13, 1929 MS - November ?, 2007 TX

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Red Rodney

Star Eyes
Red Alert 1991 via Continuum
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'820' Jazz Presents: Ray Brown, Bass...Shelly Mann, Drums...Dolo Coker, Piano...Sam Noto, Flugelhorn...Red Rodney, Trumpet - - - - - - An Album Released In 1991 Revisiting Selections By the Red Rodney Quintet Recorded During The Late 1950's. This Morning's Feature Song Is "Star Eyes", Composed In 1942 And Fifteen Years Later Given A Full-On Bop Treatment By Rodney And Crew

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8:20 am

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Salty Dog Blues
Bona Fide Bluegrass and Mountain Music 2002 via RCA
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The Morris Brothers, 1938 - Wiley And Zeke Played With J.E. Manier's Crazy Mountaineers In the Mid-1930s - Their Old-Time Music Was Featured On Live Radio Broadcasts During The 1940's

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Live and Let Live
Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways 2002 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Red Allen; Pigeon Roost Hollow, KY - Joined The Osborne Brothers In 1956, Filling Out One Of The Most Influential Vocal Trios In The History Of Country Music - A True Disciple Of The "High Lonesome Sound"

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The Jive Aces

Mama Don't Allow
It's Skiffle Time 2011 via Golden Age
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Mother's Day 2022 - The Great Britain Combo Putting A Skiffle Beat To The 1929 Cow Cow Davenport Classic - The Song's Origin Is Dated Twenty Years Earlier With The Title Of "Mr. Crump" - A Version Of "Mama Don't Allow" By W.C. Handy

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Yonder Mountain String Band

No Leg Left
Get Yourself Outside 2022 via Frog Pad/Thirty Tigers
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Michigan Appearance: 5/25 At The Deck In Muskegon

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Puck Faire

Nancy's Whiskey
Get Pucked 2003
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Named After One Of Ireland's Oldest Fairs, Officially Can Be Traced Back To 1613.

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Doc Watson

My Wandering Boy
Songs From The Southern Mountains 1994 via Sugar Hill Records
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Doc And Family Reworking The 1927 Release By Frank Jenkins Of The Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters - We Lost Doc Ten Years Ago This Month

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