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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

December 01, 2012

12:07 PM
South In New Orleans
Artist : Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale
Album : Buddy & Jim
Label : New West
12:10 PM
Old Weakness (Coming On Strong)
Artist : Wanda Jackson
Album : Unfinished Business
Label : Sugar Hill
12:13 PM
My Final Plea
Artist : The Wilders
Album : Someone's Got To Pay
Label : Free Dirt
12:17 PM
Dust
Artist : Drew Nelson
Album : Tilt-A-Whirl
Label : Red House
12:29 PM
Midnight On The Interstate
Artist : Trampled By Turtles
Album : Stars & Satellites
Label : Banjodad
12:38 PM
Happy Woman Blues
Artist : Lucinda Williams
Album : Happy Woman Blues
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
12:43 PM
Breaking Like The Sun
Artist : The Steel Wheels
Album : Lay Down Lay Low
Label : Steel Wheels
12:46 PM
Climbing Up A Mountain
Artist : Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott
Album : We're Usually A Lot Better Than This
Label : Full Light
12:50 PM
Long, Lonesome Highway
Artist : Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band
Album : The Mountain
Label : E-Squared
12:53 PM
Eddie Rode The Orphan Train
Artist : Jason Ringenberg
Album : Empire Builders
Label : Yep Roc
1:02 PM
I Hope My Pony Knows The Way Back Home
Artist : Julian Fauth
Album : Everybody Ought To Treat A Stranger Right
Label : Electro-Fi
1:07 PM
Lone Wolf Blues
Artist : Tom Feldmann
Album : Lone Wolf Blues
Label : Magnolia
1:11 PM
Step It Up & Go
Artist : Alvin Youngblood Hart & Teenie Hodges
Album : The Great Debaters OST
Label : Atlantic
1:13 PM
Ain’t Nothin’ In Ramblin’
Artist : Bonnie Raitt
Album : …First Came Memphis Minnie
Label : Stony Plain
1:19 PM
Get A Little Goner
Artist : Bill Kirchen
Album : Hammer Of The Honky-Tonk Gods
Label : Proper
1:22 PM
I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail
Artist : Ray Charles
Album : The Complete Country & Western Recordings
Label : Rhino
1:25 PM
Hooked
Artist : Eilen Jewell
Album : Queen Of The Minor Key
Label : Signature Sounds
1:27 PM
Down To The Blackmarket
Artist : Paul Burch
Album : Still Your Man
Label : Ramseur
1:32 PM
Old E. Cross
Artist : Black Jake & The Carnies
Album : Sundry Mayhems
Label : Black Jake
1:35 PM
I Am A Hammer
Artist : Lac La Belle
Album : Bring On The Light
Label : Double Lot
1:39 PM
They Say
Artist : Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
Album : Sunday Run Me Over
Label : Transdreamer
1:41 PM
Bluebird
Artist : Blanche
Album : If We Can't Trust The Doctors
Label : Cass/V2
1:44 PM
All My Tears
Artist : Julie Miller
Album : Broken Things
Label : Hightone
1:50 PM
Deep Ellum Blues
Artist : The Wronglers w/ Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Album : Heirloom Music
Label : Neanderthal
1:53 PM
A Man In Love
Artist : Charlie Feathers
Album : Charlie Feathers
Label : Elektra Nonesuch
1:56 PM
Sundry Mayhems
Artist : Black Jake & The Carnies
Album : Sundry Mayhems
Label : Black Jake
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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