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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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Joe Marcinek Band

Broad Strokes
The Groove Session 2025 via Vintage League Music
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Traditions! Returns Next Week

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Jim Lauderdale & Donna the Buffalo

Holding Back
Wait 'Til Spring 2003 via Dualtone Music Group
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The Folk-Rock Sextet Hook Up With Jim For a Run Through Of A Collection On Lauderdale Originals

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Delbert McClinton

Turn On Your Lovelight
Genuine Rhythm & Blues 2000 via Hip-O
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Taking Bobby Bland Undercover, 1961 - A Multi-Chart Hit For Bland For Fifteen Weeks - The Song Received A Grammy Hall Of Fame Award, And Is Included In The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame List Of The "500 Songs That Shaped Rock And Roll"

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Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers

Voo-It
Everybody's Talkin' Bout Miss Thing 2000 via Fat Note
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Queen Of The Modern Swing Movement - A Force To Reckon With Her Eight-Piece Little Big Band - Swing-Sting-Swager

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9:40 am

Bob Dylan

Duquesne Whistle
Tempest 2012 via Columbia
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Bob Is Celebrating Number 84 On Saturday 5/24 - A Major Figure In Popular Culture Over His Nearly 70-Year Career; Nobel Prize In Literature

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COMPILATIONS

Hard Times Come Again No More
Heritage 1997 via Island Records
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Composed By Stephen Foster, 1853 - Willie Nelson; Darol Anger, Violin - David Grisman, Mandolin - Willie Turned 92 A Few Days Ago

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9:20 am

Eastern Blok

Underwater Suite - Underwater Music
Underwater 2012 via Independent
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COMPILATIONS

I_Will_Set_My_Ship_In_Ord
A Rough Guide To Scottish Folk 2010 via World Music Network
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Ossian - The Narrator And Purported Author Of A Cycle Of Epic Poems Published By The Scottish Poet James Macpherson, 1976; Collecting Word-Of-Mouth Material In Scottish Gaelic, Said To Be From Ancient Sources

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9:00 am

Jackson Browne

Ready Or Not
For Everyman 1973 via Asylum
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Marked The Debut Appearance Of David Lindley And Long Association With Brown

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The HercuLeons

The Lucky One
The HercuLeons 2025 via True Lonesome
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Andrea Zonn And John Cowan - A Duo Of Well-Seasoned Roots Musicians Recording Their First Project Together

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Luther Dickinson

My Leavin'
Blues & Ballads (A Folksingers Songbook) Volumes I & II 2016 via New West
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Celebrates he American Oral Tradition Of Blues And Folk Songs - Dickinson Is Surrounded By Longtime Associates Including Sharde Thomas And Amy LaVere

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8:40 am

Hadley Caliman and Pete Christlieb

Up Jumped Spring
Reunion 2010 via Origin Records
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Jazz Spotlight: A Longtime Sideman For Freddie Hubbard-Taught The Nuances Of Playing The Horn By Trumpet Great Art Farmer, And Studied Even Further With Dexter Gordon Becoing An Intricate Part Of Los Angeles Jazz Scene In 1950 - Caliman Is Known As The Unsung Maverick Of Modern Jazz

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8:20 am

Porkbelly Futures

Can't Find My Way Back To You
The Crooked Road 2010 via Wildflower Records
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Canadian Rootsy-Blues Quartet Currently Celebrating Twenty-Years Together

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Leon Russell & New Grass Revival

Columbus Stockade Blues
Rhythm & Bluegrass; Hank Wilson, Vol. 4 2001 via Dark Horse
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Recorded 1980 - Fourth Release Recording Under the Pseudonym Of Hank Wilson - Columbus Stockade Blues Written By Thomas Darby, 1927

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