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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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Harmonica Shah

Once Upon A Time
Deep Detroit 2000 via South Side Records
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week

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I Don't Talk Too Much
Feelin' Right Saturday Night The Ric & Ron Anthology 2019 via Concord
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Martha Nelson, 1960 - These Two Labels Operated For Only Four Years Beginning In 1958 - These Sister Imprints Document A Unique And Transitory Sound In New Orleans Music

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Pretty Baby
Hightone Records- The First 10 Years 1994 via Hightone
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The Loved Ones

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Joe Lee's Rock
Alan Lomax- Popular Songbook 2003 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Field Recordist: Alan Lomax, 1959 - Boy Blue, Joe Lee, Darnell Walker

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Dewey Balfa

J'Ai Fait un Gros Erreur (I Made a Big Mistake)
En Bas Du Chene Vert (Under a Green Oak Tree) 1976 via Arhoolie Records
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With Marc Savoy And D.L. Menard - The Hat Trick Of Cajun Music

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9:40 am

Bruce Cockburn

Turn Turn Turn (Re-Mastered)
Rarities 2022 via True North
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Pete Seeger, Undercover 1959 - Tapping Into The Seldom Heard Rarities Selections Over the Course Of Cockburn's Illustrious Fifty Year Plus Year Career

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Backward Country Boy Blues
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues- Piano Blues 2003 via Independent
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Max Roach, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington; Money Jungle, 1962 - Generations Of Musicians Have Been Influenced By This Recording, Noting The Freedom Of Individual Expression Within A Small-Group Setting

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Michael Dause & Ben Traverse

Low Bridge (Erie Canal)
Shantyland - Songs Of The Lakes, Rivers, And Seas 2022 via Independent
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Two Of The Mitten's Best; Northern Michigan HomeGrown - Erie Canal: Completed In 1825, The Canal Was The First Navigable Waterway Connecting The Atlantic Ocean To The Great Lakes

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Barbara Dane

I Am A Weary And Lonesome Traveler
Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard Hitting Songs 2018 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Album: Barbara Dane & The Chambers Brothers, 1966 - A 1950 Skiffle Song Written By Lee Hays And Recorded That Same Year By The Weavers

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9:20 am

Joshua Ray Walker

Working Girl
Wish You Were Here 2019 via State Fair
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Character-Driven Songs And An Anti-Nashville Look - Picks Up The Mantle Where Some Of The Greats Like Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt And Billy Joe Shaver Left Off

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Jenna Mammina

When I Take My Sugar to Tea
Under the Influence 1999
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St. Joseph, MI - The St. Joe Vocal Stylist Reworking The 1931 Jazz Standard

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Bida Mariadu
Putumayo Presents- Women of the World - Acoustic 2007 via Putumayo World Music
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Lura - Portuguese Musician Of Cape Verdean Descent; Compositions Are Based On Traditional Cape-Verdean Rhythms With Elements Of Morna, Funana And Batuque, All Dance Genres Heard Throughout The Caribbean

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Dominic Kakolobango - Gueza Tabiya
Rough Guide to African Blues 2014 via World Music Network
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African Blues: Reference To The Putative Journey Undertaken By Traditional African Music From Its Homeland To The United States And Back

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Hermanos Gutierrez

Los Chicos Tristes
El Bueno y El Malo 2022 via Easy Eye Sound
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Translation: The Good And The Bad - Two-Piece Band Formed Of The Brothers Alejandro And Estevan Gutierrez; Forging An Unmistakable Genre Rooted In The 1950's Influences Of Latin America And Western Sounds

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9:00 am

CPR

It's All Coming Back To Me Now
CPR 1998 via Samson Music
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David's Backing Group Which Included Son James Raymond, Reuniting With Crosby After Being Given Up For Adoption In 1962, Not Knowing Of His Son Until The Mid-1990's; David Crosby, Jeff Pevar, James Raymond Recorded Two Albums Together As CPR, As Well As The Road Band For The Occasional Reuniting Of Crosby, Stills & Nash

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David Crosby

Yvette in English
Thousand Roads 1993 via Atlantic / Wea
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August 14, 1941 CA - January 18, 2023 (81) CA; Co-Written With Joni Mitchell, 1993 - His Music And Legacy Continue To Inspire Generations - A True American Treasure; R.I.P. David - Thanks For The Music

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8:40 am

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Serve Me Right to Suffer
From Clarksdale To Heaven- Remembering John Lee Hooker 2002 via Eagle Records
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Blues Spotlight: Jack Bruce And Gary Moore - The Two Icons With A Tip Of The Hat To The Great Delta Bluesman John Lee Hooker

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Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

Trane to Conamarra
Left Of Cool 1998 via Warner Brothers
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The Jazz Route: Takes Us To The Home Of Bela Fleck June 1998, For A One-Day Recording Session Resulting In The Album "Left Of Cool", The Fifth Release For the Band And First Collection After The Departure Of Howard Levy. This Morning's Selected Track Moves A Bit Deep Into The Long-Player, This Is 'Trane To Conamarra' - - - - - - - - - Jeff Coffin, Soprano Saxophone...Victor Wooten, Bass...Future Man, Synth-Axe Drumitar..Bela Fleck, Banjo

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8:20 am

Janel Anderson

Love to Love
Waiting 2021 via Independent
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Northern Michigan Music

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Dan Tyminski

I Dreamed of an Old Love Affair
Carry Me Across the Mountain 2000 via Rounder / Pgd
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Co-Founding Member Of Union Station

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The Country Gentlemen

King of Spades
The Complete Vanguard Recordings 2002 via Vanguard Records
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A Progressive Bluegrass Band Originating During The 1950s In The Area Of Washington, D.C. - Legends In The Bluegrass Hierarchy

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Jo Miller & Laura Love

My Sweet Love Ain't Around
Jo Miller and Laura Love Sing Bluegrass and Old-Time Music 1995 via Rockin Octoroon
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Undercover: Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, 1956

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Roy Rogers and Norton Buffalo

Long Hard Road
Roots of Our Nature 2002 via Blind Pig
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Two Of Roots Music's Pioneering Legends Reuniting For The First Time In A Decade - The Roots Never Had It So Good

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Railroad Blues
Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways 2002 via Smithsonian Folkways
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Sam McGee: The First Guitarist To Introduce Fingerpicking Into Country Music, More Precisely To Uncle Dave Macon On The Grand Ole Opry In 1925 - One-Half Of The Old-Time Performing Duo 'The McGee Brothers'

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