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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
Composer ID: 
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Playlist

October 20, 2012

12:07 PM
Last Wednesday Night
Artist : Michael Doucet & Cajun Brew
Album : Michael Doucet & Cajun Brew
Label : Rounder
12:10 PM
Living In The Country
Artist : Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon
Album : Sixty Six Steps
Label : RCA/Victor
12:14 PM
We Don’t Grow Tobacco
Artist : Old Crow Medicine Show
Album : Carry Me Back
Label : ATO
12:18 PM
Mississippi You’re On My Mind
Artist : Lucinda Williams
Album : Quiet About It: A Tribute To Jesse Winchester
Label : Mailboat
12:24 PM
Long White Cadillac
Artist : Janis Martin
Album : The Blanco Sessions
Label : Cow Island
12:29 PM
Drug Store Rock & Roll
Artist : Rosie Flores
Album : Working Girl's Guitar
Label : Bloodshot
12:31 PM
What Am I Worth
Artist : Dave Alvin w/ Syd Straw
Album : King Of California
Label : Hightone
12:34 PM
Funny How Time Slips Away
Artist : Willie Nelson
Album : One Hell Of A Ride
Label : Columbia/Legacy
12:39 PM
Fork In The Road
Artist : The Infamous Stringdusters
Album : Fork In The Road
Label : Sugar Hill
12:43 PM
Paples Blues
Artist : Andy Hall
Album : Sound Of The Steel Guitar
Label : Sugar Hill
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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