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The Roots Music Project

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Saturday 12:00p.m. to 2:00p.m.
Jeremy Baldwin

Roots Music Project

The Roots Music Project, WEMU's newest locally-produced offering, is hosted by Jeremy Baldwin on Saturdays from Noon to 2 p.m.

The show focuses on the creases and intersections between genres, styles and influences in music and features everything from folk to country, from blues to roots rock, from rockabilly to bluegrass and just about everything in between.

Genre: 
Music
Composer ID: 
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January 19, 2013

12:07 PM
Lights In The Valley
Artist : The Carolina Chocolate Drops (Various Artists)
Album : Mercyland: Hymns For The Rest Of Us
Label : Mercyland
12:10 PM
Black Jack David
Artist : Norman Blake & Nancy Blake w/ Tim O’Brien (Various Artists)
Album : The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family
Label : Dualtone
12:12 PM
Chicken & Potatoes
Artist : Jon Rauhouse
Album : Songs From The Stratton Sessions EP
Label : Local 638
12:14 PM
Boll Weevil
Artist : Bobby Bare Sr.
Album : Darker Than Light
Label : Plowboy
12:20 PM
Muleskinner Blues aka: Blue Yodel # 8
Artist : Dolly Parton
Album : Essential
Label : RCA
12:24 PM
Devil In Mind
Artist : Carrie Rodriguez
Album : Give Me All You Got
Label : Ninth Street Opus
12:28 PM
Sweet Spot
Artist : Tift Merritt
Album : Traveling Alone
Label : Yep Roc
12:31 PM
I Want To Do Everything For You
Artist : Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale
Album : Buddy & Jim
Label : New West
12:36 PM
Silver Train
Artist : The Rolling Stones
Album : Goats Head Soup
Label : Universal
12:40 PM
La Tour De Garde
Artist : The Babineaux Sisters (Various Artists)
Album : En Francais Vol.2
Label : Bayou Teche
12:44 PM
Great Rain
Artist : John Prine
Album : The Missing Years
Label : Oh Boy
12:48 PM
Mercedes Benz
Artist : Janis Joplin
Album : Greatest Hits
Label : Columbia/Legacy
12:52 PM
Cumberland Blues
Artist : Derek Hoke
Album : Waiting All Night
Label : Electric Western
12:55 PM
Pickett’s Charge
Artist : The Circuit Riders
Album : Let The Ride Begin
Label : Pinecastle
1:02 PM
Bayou Belle
Artist : Eric Bibb
Album : Deeper In The Well
Label : Stony Plain
1:06 PM
Give It To Me
Artist : Sue Foley
Album : Walk In The Sun
Label : Discovery/Antone's
1:10 PM
She Wants To Sell My Monkey
Artist : Junior Wells w/ Alvin Youngblood Hart
Album : Come On In This House
Label : Telarc
1:14 PM
Frenchman Street
Artist : Little Joe McLerran
Album : FaceBook Blues
Label : RBR
1:20 PM
Lonesome Number One
Artist : The Gibson Brothers
Album : Red Letter Day
Label : Sugar Hill
1:23 PM
One More ’Fore I Die
Artist : The Preservation Hall Jazz Band w/ The Del McCoury Band
Album : St. Peter & 57th St.
Label : Rounder
1:28 PM
Vicksburg Stomp
Artist : Hot Tuna
Album : Steady As She Goes
Label : Red House
1:32 PM
Wild Horses
Artist : Old & In The Way
Album : Breakdown
Label : Acoustic Disc
1:38 PM
It Just Dawned On Me
Artist : John Doe & Exene Cervenka
Album : Singing & Playing
Label : Moonlight Graham
1:41 PM
Can You Get To That?
Artist : The Living Sisters
Album : Run For Cover EP
Label : Vanguard
1:44 PM
Only For You
Artist : Rachel Brooke
Album : A Killer's Dream
Label : Mal
1:48 PM
Heaven is Creepy
Artist : Jim Campilongo
Album : Heaven Is Creepy
Label : Blue Hen
Roots Music
11:09 am
Fri February 15, 2013

Hear Aboriginal Country Singer, Roger Knox on The Roots Music Project (2/16)

"Stranger In My Land" by Roger Knox & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts
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Strange as it may seem, Black Aboriginal Australians have adapted American style Country music as a vehicle for telling their own unique stories.  Roger Knox aka: The King of Koori Country or The Black Elvis, is one of the leading practitioners of this style and has just released a brand new album, Stranger In My Land (Bloodshot). 

For this release Knox is backed up by the rotating cast of musicians led by producer Jon Langford (The Mekons), known as The Pine Valley Cosmonauts. 

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1:38 pm
Fri January 25, 2013

The Steel Wheels perform on The Roots Music Project 1/26

The Steel Wheels
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Ann Arbor Folk Festival performers, The Steel Wheels are scheduled to stop by the WEMU studios on Saturday (1/26)  to play live on The Roots Music Project with Jeremy Baldwin.

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