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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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October 27, 2012

12:07 PM
It’s Just The Night
Artist : The Del McCoury Band
Album : Celebrating 50 Years Of Del McCoury
Label : McCoury Music
12:11 PM
Climbing Up A Mountain
Artist : Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott
Album : We're Usually A Lot Better Than This
Label : Full Light
12:15 PM
He’s Gone
Artist : The Infamous Stringdusters
Album : Silver Sky (Deluxe Edition)
Label : High Country/SCI Fidelity
12:21 PM
Keys To Paradise
Artist : Trampled By Turtles
Album : Stars & Satellites
Label : Banjodad/Thirty Tigers
12:27 PM
The Graveyard Shift
Artist : Wanda Jackson
Album : Unfinished Business
Label : Sugar Hill
12:30 PM
Too Much
Artist : Rosie Flores
Album : Working Girl's Guitar
Label : Bloodshot
12:33 PM
Halfway To Jackson
Artist : Justin Townes Earle
Album : Midnight At The Movies
Label : Bloodshot
12:37 PM
Poor Boy
Artist : Steve Earle
Album : I Feel Alright
Label : Warner Bros./E-Squared
12:41 PM
Dream In Blue
Artist : The Stray Birds
Album : The Stray Birds
Label : Stray Birds
12:45 PM
Shaky Ground
Artist : Uncle Tupelo
Album : March 16-20, 1992
Label : Columbia/Legacy
12:48 PM
Mr. Gold & Mr. Mud
Artist : Townes Van Zandt
Album : Anthology
Label : Fuel 2000
12:50 PM
These Men Of God
Artist : Elizabeth Cook
Album : Gospel Plow EP
Label : 31 Tigers
12:54 PM
Hey Baby
Artist : The Holmes Brothers
Album : Simple Truths
Label : Alligator
1:00 PM
Crazy Cryin’ Blues
Artist : Maria Muldaur
Album : …First Came Memphis Minnie
Label : Stony Plain
1:03 PM
Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning
Artist : Tom Feldmann
Album : Lone Wolf Blues
Label : Magnolia
1:06 PM
It’s Backfirin’ Now
Artist : The North Mississippi Allstars
Album : Things About Comin' My Way: A Tribute To The Music Of The Mississippi Sheiks
Label : Black Hen
1:10 PM
Wayward Gal
Artist : The Carolina Chocolate Drops
Album : Heritage
Label : Dixie Frog/Music Maker
1:16 PM
Rattlesnake
Artist : Paul’s Big Radio
Album : Pavement
Label : Embassy Hotel
1:22 PM
Tennessee Approximately
Artist : Captain Ivory
Album : iTunes EP
Label : Captain Ivory
1:27 PM
Shelter Me Lord
Artist : Paul Thorn
Album : What The Hell Is Goin' On?
Label : Perpetual Obscurity
1:30 PM
Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go
Artist : Buddy Miller
Album : Cruel Moon
Label : Hightone
1:37 PM
Too Much Monkey Business
Artist : Chuck Berry
Album : The Anthology
Label : MCA/Chess
1:40 PM
Promised Land
Artist : Elvis Presley
Album : Walk A Mile In My Shoes: The Essential 70's Masters
Label : RCA
1:43 PM
(You Never Can Tell) C’est La Vie
Artist : Emmylou Harris
Album : Luxury Liner
Label : Warner Bros./Rhino
1:46 PM
Johnny B. Goode
Artist : The Grateful Dead
Album : Grateful Dead
Label : Grateful Dead/Rhino
1:52 PM
Rockin’ In The Graveyard
Artist : Jackie Morningstar
Album : Rockin' Bones: 1970's Punk & Rockabilly
Label : Rhino
1:54 PM
Graveyard Train
Artist : Doug & Telisha Williams
Album : Ghost Of The Knoxville Girl
Label : No Evil
1:56 PM
Deadwood
Artist : Mountain Heart
Album : Wide Open
Label : Skaggs Family
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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