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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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The Mollys

Mershin Derkin
Hat Trick 1997 via Apolkalips Records
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Traditions! Returns Next Week

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That's How I Can Count On You
Bona Fide Bluegrass and Mountain Music 2002 via RCA
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Jimmy Martin - Joined Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys In 1949 Filling The Void Left By The Departure Of Mac Wiseman

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The Duffield Caron Project

Walking After Midnight
Alright, You Win! 2017 via Independent
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Kalamazoo, MI: Re-Imagining The Great Patsy Cline

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Mike June

Charlie And Lily
Talkin' Revolution Blues 2015 via New Austin Music
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Hillsborough, NC - Like All Great Troubadours, Mike June Sings About Things That Actually Matter

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9:40 am

COMPILATIONS

Keepin' the Blues
Blues Across America- The Detroit Scene 1997 via Cannonball Records
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Alberta Adams, "The Grande Dame Of Detroit Blues"; "The Personification Of The Detroit Blues Scene," - Tap Dancer And Nightclub Singer During The 1930's - Recipient Of The 2006 Detroit Music Awards - Self-Taught Vocalist Influenced By Big Joe Turner, Sarah Vaughan And LaVern Baker

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Angela Perley & The Howlin' Moons

Plug Me In
Turn Me Loose 2023 via Independent
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Member Of The Pistol Annies With Miranda Lambert And Ashley Monroe; One Can Hear The Pistol Annies Here On 'YCE

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Ella Fitzgerald

Hooray for Love
The Best Of The Song Books 1993 via Polygram Records
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1961 - Much Obliged For Your Excellent Online Suggestion

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Gregory Porter

The _In_ Crowd
Liquid Spirit 2013 via Blue Note
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Reworking Of The Ramsey Lewis Trio, 1965

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George Gershwin

Lady, Be Good - So Am I
Gershwin Plays Gershwin - The Piano Roll 1993 via Elektra
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This Is Album Is Historic - Gershwin Recorded These Piano Rolls In An Eleven Period Beginning In 1916; Making Over 130 Piano Rolls

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9:20 am
(REQUESTED)

The Blind Boys of Alabama

You Better Mind
Down In New Orleans 2008 via Time Life Entertainment
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African-American Spiritual - Recorded By Bessie Jones, Past Member Of The Georgia Sea Island Singers, A Group Formed In The Early 1900s Who Travel Performing Songs And Other Elements Of The Gullah Culture

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COMPILATIONS

St. John's Guaguanco
Panama! 3 - Calypso Panameno, Guajira Jazz, and Cumbia Tipica on the Isthmus 1960-1975 2009 via Soundway
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Los Salvajes Del Ritmo (The Savages Of Rhythm) - Panama! 3 Showcases The Unique Tropical Music Created In Panama During The Fertile Decades Of The 1960's And '70's, Home To Culturally Diverse People; Its Music Is A Soulful Blend Of Latin American, Caribbean, European And Indigenous Forms Reflecting Their Multicultural Environment During A Turbulent Time In The Country's History

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Hermanos Gutierrez

Dorado Valley
El Bueno y El Malo 2022 via Easy Eye Sound
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Formed In Zurich By Ecuadorian-Swiss Brothers Alejandro And Estevan Gutierrez - Take Influence From 1950's Latin American Sounds And Sergio Leons Spaghetti Westerns

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Battlefield Band

Tramps and Hawkers
Across The Borders 1997 via Temple Records
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Roud Folk-Song Index (S163637) 1874 - Nineteenth-Century Scottish Ballad Handed Down Through Oral Tradition - Alan Lomax's Field Recording By Jimmy McBeath In 1951 Was The First In Album Form - McBeath Learned It Thirty-Five Years Prior In The Trenches During World War 1

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9:00 am

COMPILATIONS

Dont Come A Knockin -Mary Lee Whitney
Loma - A Soul Music Love Affair Vol. 1-4 2016 via Future Days Recordin
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Mary Lee Whitney, 1966; Toured With Soul Legends Solomon Burke And Johnny Otis In The Early Days - A Decade Later Featured Heavily On Stevie's 'Songs In The Key Of Life And 'Hotter Than July'

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Jaimee Harris

Boomerang Town
Boomerang Town 2023 via Thirty Tigers
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Debut Long-Player - A Voice That Reaches Into Your Soul; Excellent First Album

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8:40 am

Shari Kane and Dave Steele

Rag Mama Rag
Four Hand Blues 2011 via Big Bones Music
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Blues Plate Special: Detroit's Long-Time Acoustic Blues Duo Reworks The Blind Boy Fuller Classic. Blind Boy Played Outside Tobacco Warehouses For Tips, Earning Him Gigs With Sonny Terry, Washboard Wiz George Washington And Gary Davis. A Talent Scout Took All Three To New York City In 1935 For A One-Day Recording Session; "Rag Mama Rag" Was Laid Down At This Session. Over The Next Five Years Fuller Recorded 135 Tracks. Fuller's Songwriting Owed A Debt To A Wide Range Of Piedmont Artists, And His Guitar Style On The National Steel Was In The Shadow Of Blind Blake - Fulton Allen Passed On In 1941 At The Age Of 36.

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COMPILATIONS

St. Thomas
The Very Best of Prestige Records- Prestige 60th Anniversary 2009 via Prestige
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The Jazz Route: Sonny Rollins - Van Gelder Studios For The 1956 Recording Of Saxophone Colossus, Often Considered To Be The Breakthrough Record For Sonny Rollins. Leading A Crew Of Seasoned Side-Men, The Rollins Quartet Effortlessly Tackles The Challenge Of Thematic Improvisation, Developing Each Solo With Practical Logic And Uncompromising Swing, As If In Answer To The Charge That There Was A Lack Of Grace And Beauty In The Work Of The New York Hard-Swingers - A Timeless Masterpiece. - - - - - - - - - - Max Roach, Drums...Doug Watkins, Bass...Tommy Flanagan, Piano...Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone

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8:20 am

Watkins Family Hour

Bella And Ivan
Brother Sister 2020 via Family Hour
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Sean & Sara Watkins

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Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard

Take Me Back to Tulsa
Who's That Knocking (1965) 2022 via Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
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The 'Grass Legends Take Bob Wills & Tommy Duncan Undercover (1940)

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The Texas Rubies

Hank Drank
Working Girl Blues 1993 via Monsterdisc
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Jane Miller & Kelly Kessler - Charter Members Of Chicago's Emerging Insurgent Country Community During The Early 1990's

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Lucky 757

Broken Heart
Rockabilly Revival 2023 via Independent
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A Father/Son Duo Founded In '014, With Steady Roots In The Seven Five Seven Area Code Of Virginia Giving The Band A Platform To Deliver The Throwback Sounds With Original Style

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Emily Nenni

In the Mornin'
On The Ranch 2022 via Normaltown
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New Music Into 'YCE

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Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin

Adieu False Heart
Blue Lightning 1991 via Rounder Select
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Adapted From A Late Nineteenth-Century Border Ballad And Recorded By The Arthur Smith Trio In 1938

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Rick Thum

Oh Susannah
Front Porch Waltz 2002 via RT Audio
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Stephan Foster, 1847 - Thum Is A Highly-Influential Hammered Dulcimer Player - The Hammered Dulcimer Is Held To Have Been Invented Roughly 5,000 Years Ago, And Been Brought To Europe From The Middle East During The Crusades

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8:00 am