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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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Hugh Masekela

Tamati So So
Sixty 2000 via Shanachie
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Traditions! Returns Next Week - The Roots Live Here

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Reverend Horton Heat

Right String, Wrong Yo-Yo
Roots of The Rev. (Volume One) 2023 via Independent
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Composer: Speckled Red, 1929

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Jolie Blonde
Cajun Dance Hall Special 1992 via Rounder / Umgd
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Zachary Richard - A Traditional Cajun Waltz; The Fiddle-Based Melody Dates To Before The 1900's

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COMPILATIONS

Shake Me - Albert Harrison & The Gospel Tones
Sacred Soul of North Carolina 2021 via Bible & Tire
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Eleven Groups In Eight Days. A Marathon Recording Session In A Makeshift Storefront Studio In A 100-Year-Old Building In Eastern North Carolina - A Dozen Groups Came To Lift Their Voices And Represent The Region's Unique Sacred Soul Traditions

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The Bastard Sons Of Johnny Cash

El Troubadour
New Old Story 2014 via Randm Records
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San Diego, CA 1995 - Got The Ok To Use Cash's Name By Johnny Himself - Recorded First Album At Johnny's Private Studio

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9:40 am
St. Cecilia-Joshua Davis (click for more info)
Support for WYCE comes from St. Cecilia Music Center, presenting Michigan-based singer/songwriter Joshua Davis on Thursday, April 27th, at 7:30pm as part of the Acoustic Café Folk Series. 

Joshua Davis has explored the common thread connecting folk, blues, jazz, ragtime and country to create his own sound. He has become a Michigan folk staple. His latest album The Way Back Home, is his first album since appearing as a finalist on NBC's "The Voice" in 2015.

Tickets and more information about Joshua Davis are available at SCMC dash online dot org or at St. Cecilia Music Center, located 24 Ransom Avenue in downtown Grand Rapids.

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Hank Williams

Lost Highway
The Original Singles Collection Disc 2 1990 via PolyGram Records
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Legend! - One Of The Most Influential American Singers And Songwriters Of The 20th Century

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Johnny Guitar Watson

Cold, Cold Heart
Blues Masters- The Very Best Of Johnny Guitar Watson 1999 via Independent
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Hiram "Hank" Williams, 1950 - Both A Classic Of Honky-Tonk And Entry In The Great American Songbook

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COMPILATIONS

All the Gin Is Gone
Delmark 40th Anniversary Jazz 1993 via Delmark
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Recorded 1959, Jimmy Forrest - First Album Made After Jimmy's R&B Phase; Back To His Roots Project - Blues-Based Hard Bop That Leans Soul-Jazz

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Jill Jack And The American Songbook Band

All Of Me
Pure Imagination 2017 via Independent
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Detroit, MI -Jazz Standard,1931; Performed For Broadcast That Same Year By Torch Singer Belle Barker That Same Year

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Satan and Adam

Crawdad Hole
Mother Mojo 1993 via Flying Fish Records
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A Fixture On Harlem's Sidewalks In The Late 1980s And Early '90s

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9:20 am

Eric Clapton

Driftin' Blues
From The Cradle 1994 via Reprise / Wea
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Working Up The Great Charles Brown - Clapton Turning 78 A Few Days Ago

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Shannon McNally

It Makes No Difference
Black Irish 2017 via Compass
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Robbie Wrote It; Rick Danko Gave It His Soul - Appearing On Northern Light - Southern Nights (1975)

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Klezmer Conservatory Band

A Heymisher Bulgar -Mayne Elterns Fargenign [My Perogative]
Old World Beat 1991 via Rounder / Pgd
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Originally Formed For A Single Concert In 1980, The Internationally-Renowned Klezmer Band Enters Its Forty-Third Year - - - - - Klezmer: An Instrumental Musical Tradition Of The Ashkenazi Jews Of Central And Eastern Europe - The Genre Incorporates Elements Of Other Musical Genres Including Ottoman ( Greek And Romanian) Music, Baroque Music, German And Slavic Folk dances, And Religious Jewish Music

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Choro das 3

Olho De Boi
Olho De Boi 2019 via Independent
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The Wanted Three - A Family Group Of Three Sisters Dedicated To The Brazilian Instrumental Music Based On Choro, A Genre That Emerged In Brazil During The Early Decades Of the Nineteenth-Century

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9:00 am

Jack Klatt

Logwalls And Chainsaws
Shadows In The Sunset 2016 via Different Folk
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Minneapolis, MN - Steadfast Troubadour; Impeccable Authenticity Reminiscent Of The Most Revered Storytellers

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Margo Price

Landfill
Strays 2023 via Loma Vista
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Fourth Release - Mike Campbell And Sharon Van Etten Guesting - Margo Is Celebrating Number 40 In a Few Days

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8:40 am

COMPILATIONS

Suffering Mind
Delmark - 55 Years Of Blues 2008 via Delmark
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Blues Plate Special: Barkin' Bill Smith ; August 18, 1928 MS - April 24, 2000 IL - Raised In Mississippi And Later Relocated To East St. Louis, Detroit And Finally Chicago, At That Time Working With Homesick James. Smith Fronted Blues Bands Around Chicago For Decades, Making His Recording Debut In 1991. Joe Williams, Jimmy Witherspoon And Brook Benton Among Influences. Barkin' Bill Passed On In 2000 At The Age Of 71.

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Ron Levy

Just the Way It Went
After Midnight Grooves 2004 via Levtronic
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The Jazz Route: Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom Trio - Devoted Most Of His Career To Keeping The Flame Of Funky, Bluesy Soul-Jazz Alive - Played with Albert King And B.B. During The Late 1960's - Co-Founded Both Rounder And Bullseye Blues Record Labels - The Trio Continues Carving Out New Ground - - - - - - - - - Jeff Lockhart And Melvin Sparks, Guitar...Adrome McHine, Drums...Kal Denson, Saxophone...Ron Levy, Bass; Piano; Vibraphone; Hammond B-3

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8:20 am

Sturgill Simpson

Sitting Here Without You
Cuttin' Grass, Vol. 1 2020 via Thirty Tigers
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The Face Of 21st Century Outlaw Country; A Self-Styled Maverick Who Didn't Follow The Rules Of Either Modern Or Classic Country

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Tommy Emmanuel

White Freight Liner Blues (Featuring Molly Tuttle)
Accomplice Two 2023 via CGP
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Molly Tuttle - A Rendering Of Vintage Townes Van Zandt

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The Wooks

Flyin' High
Flyin' High 2022 via Can'd Aid
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Award-Winning 'Grassers Inspired By The Traditional As Well As The Unconventional

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COMPILATIONS

Red Jacket Mine Explosion
Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways 2002 via Smithsonian Folkways
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The Phipps Family - Integral Part Of The 1960's Folk Revival - April 22, 1938 Keen Mountain Coal Mine Explosion, 45 Miners Perished; Considered One Of The Worst Mining Disasters In The History Of Virginia

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COMPILATIONS

Wildwood Flower
Folk Music At Newport, Vol. 1 1995 via Vanguard Records
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Mother Maybelle Carter Recorded July 1963

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Tyler Childers

Midnight on the Water
Long Violent History 2020 via ATO Records
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A Well-Known American Waltz Written By Texas Fiddler Luke Thomasson Composed At The Turn Of The Twentieth-Century (1900)

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8:00 am