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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.

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Music
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October 13, 2012

12:07 PM
False Hearted Lover Blues
Artist : Levon Helm
Album : Dirt Farmer
Label : Vanguard
12:11 PM
Mississippi Railroad Blues
Artist : Marty Stuart
Album : Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions
Label : Sugar Hill
12:21 PM
Jock-A-Mo
Artist : Sugar Boy & His Cane Cutters
Album : The Cosimo Matassa Story
Label : Proper
12:23 PM
Cajun Born
Artist : Emmylou Harris
Album : Elite Hotel
Label : Warner Bros./Rhino
12:37 PM
Run Mountain
Artist : The Carolina Chocolate Drops
Album : Leaving Eden
Label : Nonesuch
12:39 PM
Genevieve
Artist : Old Crow Medicine Show
Album : Carry Me Back
Label : ATO
12:46 PM
Big River
Artist : Johnny Cash
Album : Sings The Songs That Made Him Famous
Label : Sun/Varese
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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