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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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Playlist

November 03, 2012

12:07 PM
Pray For Rain
Artist : Pete Bernhard
Album : Stright Line
Label : Milan
12:11 PM
We Can’t Turn Back Now
Artist : Rodney Crowell
Album : The Outsider
Label : Columbia
12:15 PM
Shirttail Boogie
Artist : The Crooked Jades
Album : World's On Fire
Label : Jade Note
12:17 PM
White Freightliner Blues
Artist : Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott
Album : We're Usually A Lot Better Than This
Label : Full Light
12:25 PM
Sights & Sounds Of London Town
Artist : Richard Thompson
Album : Mock Tudor
Label : Capitol
12:30 PM
The Cuckoo
Artist : Jubal’s Kin
Album : Jubal's Kin
Label : Jubal's Kin
12:34 PM
Dream In Blue
Artist : The Stray Birds
Album : The Stray Birds
Label : Stray Birds
12:37 PM
Endure
Artist : The Steel Wheels
Album : Lay Down Lay Low
Label : Steel Wheels
12:43 PM
Long Black Veil
Artist : The Band
Album : Music From Big Pink
Label : Capitol
12:46 PM
Brand New Tennessee Waltz
Artist : Lyle Lovett
Album : Quiet About It: A Tribute To Jesse Winchester
Label : Mailboat
12:50 PM
(Making The Run To) Gladewater
Artist : Michelle Shocked
Album : Short Sharp Shocked
Label : Mighty Sound
12:54 PM
Iodine
Artist : Jim Lauderdale
Album : Carolina Moonrise
Label : Sky Crunch/Compass
12:57 PM
Big Black Train
Artist : Flatt & Scruggs
Album : Tis Sweet To Be Remembered: Essential Flatt & Scruggs
Label : Columbia/Legacy
1:01 PM
Dirty Old Town
Artist : Bettye LaVette
Album : Thankful N' Thoughtful
Label : Anti-
1:05 PM
Lord Please
Artist : Rick Holmstrom w/ Mavis Staples
Album : Cruel Sunrise
Label : M.C.
1:10 PM
Nitty Gritty
Artist : Koko Taylor
Album : Koko Taylor
Label : Chess
1:12 PM
The Blues Is All Wrong
Artist : Chuck Leavell w/ Candi Staton
Album : Back In The Woods
Label : Evergreen Arts
1:17 PM
As Long As I’m Movin
Artist : Janis Martin
Album : The Blanco Sessions
Label : Cow Island
1:21 PM
Drug Store Rock &Roll
Artist : Rosie Flores
Album : Working Girl's Guitar
Label : Bloodshot
1:23 PM
Blues Keep Calling
Artist : Marti Brom
Album : Not For Nothin'
Label : Goofin'/Ripsaw
1:26 PM
It’s All Over Now
Artist : Wanda Jackson
Album : Unfinished Business
Label : Sugar Hill
1:32 PM
Texas On A Saturday Night
Artist : The Time Jumpers
Album : The Time Jumpers
Label : Rounder
1:35 PM
Dog-Gone It, Baby I’m In Love
Artist : Carl Smith
Album : From Boppin' Hillbilly To Red Hot Rockabilly
Label : Proper
1:37 PM
Honey Honey Bee
Artist : RobinElla & The CC Stringband
Album : RobinElla & The CC Stringband
Label : Columbia
1:41 PM
I Never Thought That I’d Be Lonely
Artist : Miss Tess
Album : Sweet Talk
Label : Signature Sounds
1:46 PM
Me & My Chauffeur Blues
Artist : Maria Muldaur
Album : …And Then Came Memphis Minnie
Label : Stony Plain
1:49 PM
Powderfinger
Artist : The Circuit Riders
Album : Let The Ride Begin
Label : Pinecastle
1:52 PM
I Won’t Back Down
Artist : Johnny Cash
Album : American III: Solitary Man
Label : American
1:56 PM
Long Steel Rail
Artist : Riley Baugus
Album : Long Steel Rail
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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