The Roots Music Project

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

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.

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Playlist

September 22, 2012

12:07 PM
Duquesne Whistle
Artist : Bob Dylan
Album : Tempest
Label : Columbia
12:13 PM
Deep Feeling
Artist : Chuck Berry
Album : After School Session
Label : Chess
12:15 PM
Bring It With You When You Come
Artist : David Bromberg w/ Levon Helm
Album : Use Me
Label : Appleseed
12:19 PM
By My Side
Artist : Rick Holmstrom
Album : Cruel Sunrise
Label : M.C.
12:24 PM
Jock-A-Mo
Artist : Sugar Boy & His Cane Cutters
Album : The Cosimo Matassa Story
Label : Proper
12:26 PM
The Old Folks Started It
Artist : Sankofa
Album : The Uptown Strut
Label : Kingswood
12:29 PM
99 Years Blues
Artist : The Jake Leg Stompers
Album : Hill Country Hoodoo
Label : Hoo-Doo
12:32 PM
Know You Rider
Artist : Hot Tuna
Album : Hot Tuna
Label : RCA
12:38 PM
Traveling Alone
Artist : Tift Merritt
Album : Traveling Alone
Label : Yep Roc
12:43 PM
Far Away In Another Town
Artist : Justin Townes Earle
Album : The Good Life
Label : Bloodshot
12:46 PM
Call It A Day
Artist : Kelleigh McKenzie
Album : Chances
Label : Zatchubilly
12:49 PM
Fare Thee Well
Artist : Sam Llanas
Album : 4 A.M.
Label : Inner Knot
12:54 PM
Peach Pickin’
Artist : The Black Lillies
Album : 100 Miles Of Wreckage
Label : Attack Monkey
12:59 PM
Early Roman Kings
Artist : Bob Dylan
Album : Tempest
Label : Columbia
1:04 PM
Everything Gonna Be Alright
Artist : John Hammond
Album : Push Comes To Shove
Label : Back Porch
1:08 PM
Dimples
Artist : John Lee Hooker
Album : Hooker
Label : Shout Factory
1:10 PM
Bull Doze Blues
Artist : Henry Thomas
Album : The Blues Vol. 1
Label : Smithsonian
1:15 PM
Cajun Telephone Stomp
Artist : Beausoleil
Album : Cajun Conja
Label : RNA
1:20 PM
Louisiana Man
Artist : The Twilite Broadcasters
Album : Evening Shade
Label : Twilite
1:23 PM
Lafayette
Artist : Lucinda Williams
Album : Happy Woman Blues
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
1:27 PM
Jackson
Artist : The Carolina Chocolate Drops
Album : We Walk The Line: A Celebration Of The Music Of Johnny Cash
Label : Legacy
1:32 PM
I Wish It Would Rain
Artist : Kasey Chambers w/ Ashleigh Dallas
Album : Storybook
Label : Sugar Hill
1:35 PM
Wabash Cannonball
Artist : Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys
Album : Back At The Quonset Hut
Label : Ramseur
1:39 PM
California
Artist : Dan Zanes
Album : Parades & Panoramas
Label : Festival Five
1:41 PM
Brokedown Palace
Artist : Joan Osborne
Album : Pretty Little Stranger
Label : Vanguard
1:47 PM
Statesboro Blues
Artist : The Devil Makes Three
Album : Do Wrong Right
Label : Milan
1:50 PM
In The Pines
Artist : The Wandering
Album : Go On Now, You Can't Stay Here
Label : Songs Of The South
1:53 PM
Hey, Good Lookin’
Artist : Hank Williams
Album : 24 Greatest Hits
Label : Mercury
1:56 PM
Goin’ Up Dry Branch
Artist : Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper
Album : Fired Up
Label : Rounder
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

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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Music
1:38 pm
Fri January 25, 2013

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

The Steel Wheels

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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