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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. John Hair & New Connections

Brother Bo
When the Spirit Gets You! 2006 via Independent
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose" Traditions! Returns Next Week

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The Beatles

Honey Don't
Beatles For Sale 1964 via Apple
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Undercover: Carl Perkins; Ringo Singin' It

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Mavis Staples & Levon Helm

You Got To Serve Somebody
Carry Me Home 2022 via ANTI
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Undercover: Bob Dylan, 1979

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Gill Landry

Just Like You
Gill Landry 2015 via ATO
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Two-Time Grammy Award Winner - Joined Old Crow Medicine Show In '04 - Gill And Woody Pines Co-Founded The Kitchen Syncopators, 1998

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9:40 am

Biller & Wakefield

I Don't Mind
The Hot Guitars Of Biller & Wakefield 1999 via Hmg Records
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Side Project For Guitarist Dave Biller And Pedal Steel Wiz Jeremy Wakefield Getting Some Free Time Away From Their Day Job With The Asylum Street Spankers

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(REQUESTED)

Bobby Weir & Wolf Brothers

Ripple
Bobby Weir & Wolf Brothers Live In Colorado, Vol, 2 2022 via Third Man
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Online Suggestion - The 75 Year-Old Weir Quotes: "First Quick Tour With The Wolfpack, There's A Rawness To It That We'll Probably Never Get Again."

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Various/Unknown Artist

Do the Do
The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions 1989 via Chess
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1971- Clapton, Winwood, Wyman, Watts And Sumlin - A Gathering For One Of The First Super Sessions, A Setting For The Wolf And Sumlin, Two Blues Masters With Those They Heavily Influenced; The Musicians From The Second Generation Of Rock And Roll

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The Knitters

I'll Go Down Swinging
The Modern Sounds Of The Knitters 2005 via Zoe Records
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Los Angeles, CA - Side Project For The Members Of X (John Doe, Exene Cervanka, Billy Zoom & DJ Bonebrake), And Includes Dave Alvin And Jonny Ray Bartel

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Sam Burchfield

Howl
Scoundrel 2022 via Soundly
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Raised In The Foothills Of The Blue Ridge Of South Carolina; Raised On His Daddy's Classic Country

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9:20 am

Tiny Bradshaw Quintet

Gravy Train
Walk That Mess 2005 via King
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Recorded Fifteen Years After Forming His First Swing Band In 1949, And Two Years Later Writing And Recording A Song Important To The Development Of Rock And Roll, Train Kept A-Rollin'

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Connie Evingson

The Jersey Bounce
All The Cats Join In 2014 via Minnehaha Music
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Composer: Tiny Bradshaw - Four Weeks At No.1 In 1942 By Benny Goodman And His Orchestra - That Same Year Top 20 For Jimmy Dorsey And Shep Fields

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We Banjo 3

The Long Black Veil (Live)
Live in Galway 2015 via Independent
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Galway, IE - Mixing Of Traditional Blends They Call Celtgrass - Long Black Veil Selected By The Library Of Congress For Preservation In The National Recording Registry

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COMPILATIONS

Na Bu Mons
An Afro-Portuguese Odyssey 2002 via Putumayo
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Eneida Marka - A Vibrant Voice And Ambassador For The Music Guinea-Bissau - The Style Is Widely Associated With The Polyrhythmic Genre Of Gumbe, Influenced By Fast Tempo Zouk

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Los Folkloristas

El Condor Pasa
Mexico 1990 via Flying Fish Records
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The Condor Passes - A Peruvian Zaezuela (Music Play) Written In 1913 By Daniel Robles

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9:00 am
Tuesday Evening Music Club (click for more info)

The recently expanded Tuesday Evening Music Club brings talented local and regional musicians to the Frederik Meijer Gardens Amphitheater stage every Tuesday evening throughout June, July and August!

Concerts begin at 7 pm and there's room for picnics! These outdoor performances are included in Meijer Gardens membership and for any general admission visitor to the Gardens on Tuesdays. 

The Tuesday Evening Music Club is generously supported by WYCE, Corporate Live and Meyer Music.

The full lineup and additional information can be found at at Meijer Gardens dot org slash tuesday.

Tom Petty

Louisiana Rain
An American Treasure 2018 via Reprise
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Alternate Take, 1979; Damn The Torpedoes - Third Critically-Acclaimed Release For Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

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Watkins Family Hour

(Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You (Feat. Fiona Apple)
Vol. II 2022 via Thirty Tigers
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Fiona Apple, One Of The Frequent Collaborators Of Watkins Family Hour - 9/20 The Ark, Ann Arbor; 9/23 Great Lakes Center For The Arts, Bay Harbor, MI

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Mariel Buckley

Stray Dogs
Driving In The Dark 2018 via Independent
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Second Release

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Pharis & Jason Romero

Rolling Mills
Tell 'Em You Were Gold 2022 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Latest Release - Multi-Winning Juno Award Recipients

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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!

Lizzie Miles

The Man I Got Ain't The Man I Want
Get Dizzy With Lizzie 2022 via Cook Records
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A Singer Adept At Both Blues And Jazz Stylings, Lizzie Miles' Career Spanned The Advent Of Jazz In New Orleans To Its Post-World War II Revival. Nicknamed The "Creole Songbird," Miles Worked Joe Oliver,,Kid Ory, And Bunk Johnson Performing In Theaters, Circuses, And Minstrel Shows Beginning In 1909 At The Age Of Fourteen. Recording Her First Blues Phonograph Records In New York For the Pioneering Okeh Label During The Early 1920's, Lizzie Released Nearly Seventy Sides Over The Next Two Decades. Illness Sidelined Her For A Few Years Before Launching A Second Career In 1950 As A Traditional Jazz-Revival Vocalist, Developing Distinctive Mannerism And Reputation As An Important And Vibrant Musical Figure During The First Half Of the Twentieth-Century; Her Final Stage Performance Was The Monterey Jazz Festival. Elizabeth Mary Landreaux Passed On 1963.

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Lizzie Miles

A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Lizzie Miles (Vol. 2) 1923-1928 1996 via Document
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Blues Spotlight: March 31, 1895 LA - March 17, 1963 LA

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Chet Baker

Hotel 49
In New York (1959) 2021 via Craft Recordings
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'820' Jazz Presents: Paul Chambers, Bass...Al Haig, Piano...Philly Joe Jones, Drums...Johnny Griffin, Tenor Saxophone...Chet Baker, Trumpet - - - - - - - Recorded September 1958, Chet Baker Brought His West Coast Cool To New York City , And The Result Is Uniformly Brilliant. Baker Did This One In Quintet Configuartion, Four Impressive Hand-Picked Soloists Accenting Baker's Laid-Back Phrasing With Maximum Room For Percolating Extended Solos Adding Up For Some Intense Bop Interaction.

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8:20 am

Leftover Salmon

Boogie Grass Band
Brand New Good Old Days 2021 via Compass
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Reworking Conway Twitty

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COMPILATIONS

Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
Bona Fide Bluegrass and Mountain Music 2002 via RCA
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Bill & Charlie Monroe Began As The Trio Birch, 1932 - Waxed Sixty Sides For RCA As The Monroe Brothers - The Duo Dissolved In 1941; Charlie Forming The Kentucky Pardners And Bill The Bluegrass Boys

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Randy Sabien

Things Ain't What They Used to Be
Fiddlehead Blues 1988 via Independent
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'Grassin-Up Mercer Ellington's 1942 Jazz Standard

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Black Jake & the Carnies

Old E Cross
Sundry Mayhems 2011 via Independent
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Ypsilanti, MI - The Original Kings of Crabgrass, Referring To The Group's Stylistic Mash-Up Of Punk, Bluegrass And Americana

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Po' Girl

Abilene
Po' Girl 2003 via Hightone Records
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Undercover: George Hamilton IV - Number One On Country Charts For Four Weeks, Crossing Over To Top Twenty On The Pop Charts - Featured In The 1963 Movie Hootenanny Hoot

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Charles Wesley Godwin

Needle Fall Down
How The Mighty Fall 2022 via Independent
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West Virginia Guitar Slinger - Latest Release

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8:00 am
Tuesday Evening Music Club (click for more info)

The recently expanded Tuesday Evening Music Club brings talented local and regional musicians to the Frederik Meijer Gardens Amphitheater stage every Tuesday evening throughout June, July and August!

Concerts begin at 7 pm and there's room for picnics! These outdoor performances are included in Meijer Gardens membership and for any general admission visitor to the Gardens on Tuesdays. 

The Tuesday Evening Music Club is generously supported by WYCE, Corporate Live and Meyer Music.

The full lineup and additional information can be found at at Meijer Gardens dot org slash tuesday.