The Roots Music Project

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Saturday 12:00p.m. to 2:00p.m.

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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Playlist

December 08, 2012

12:07 PM
Tin Can
Artist : Mindy Smith
Album : Mindy Smith
Label : Giant Leap
12:10 PM
Short & Sweet
Artist : John Lilly
Album : Cold Comfort
Label : John Lilly
12:13 PM
Grandfather’s Clock
Artist : Lac La Belle
Album : Lac La Belle
Label : Lac La Belle
12:16 PM
Hard, Ain’t It Hard
Artist : Cisco Houston
Album : Cisco Houston Sings The Songs Of Woody Guthrie
Label : Vanguard
12:19 PM
Lonely One In This Town
Artist : Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale
Album : Buddy & Jim
Label : New West
12:22 PM
Wabash Cannonball
Artist : Claire Lynch
Album : Crowd Favorites
Label : Rounder
12:30 PM
Roving Gambler
Artist : The Country Gentlemen
Album : Classic Bluegrass Vol. 2
Label : Smithsonian Folkways
12:34 PM
Fine Line
Artist : Lac La Belle
Album : Live At The WEMU Studios
Label : *
12:41 PM
Around The World
Artist : Lac La Belle
Album : Live At The WEMU Studios
Label : *
12:48 PM
Breezy Sunday
Artist : Lac La Belle
Album : Live At The WEMU Studios
Label : *
12:55 PM
Rusted Bolt
Artist : Lac La Belle
Album : Live At The WEMU Studios
Label : *
1:00 PM
Look On Yonder Wall
Artist : Jazz Gillum
Album : That's All Right: When The Sun Goes Down Vol. 4
Label : Bluebird
1:03 PM
Key To The Highway
Artist : Dr. John
Album : Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack Vol. 2
Label : Clean Cuts
1:06 PM
No More Troubles Now
Artist : Lonnie Johnson
Album : Steppin' On The Blues
Label : Columbia
1:10 PM
Going Back To Arkansas
Artist : Billy Boy Arnold
Album : Billy Boy Arnold Sings Big Bill Broonzy
Label : Electro-Fi
1:16 PM
All He Wants is You
Artist : Shawn Colvin
Album : This One's For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark
Label : Icehouse
1:19 PM
My Blue Heaven
Artist : The Lazybirds
Album : American Roots
Label : Lazybirds
1:23 PM
On The Outskirts Of Town
Artist : The Time Jumpers
Album : The Time Jumpers
Label : Rounder
1:27 PM
Nine Days Of Christmas
Artist : The Sweetback Sisters
Album : The Sweetback Sisters' Country Christmas Singalong Spectacular
Label : Signature Sounds
1:32 PM
Willie Poor Boy
Artist : Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum
Album : Guest House
Label : Hightone
1:36 PM
Querida Tierra
Artist : Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys
Album : Release Your Shrouds
Label : Earth-Work
1:13 PM
Roses In The Snow
Artist : Emmylou Harris
Album : Roses In The Snow
Label : Warner Bros./Rhino
1:44 PM
Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Artist : John Fogerty & Ricky Skaggs
Album : Ricky Skaggs & Friends Sing The Songs Of Bill Monroe
Label : Lyric Street
1:47 PM
Barbarossa
Artist : Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys
Album : Release Your Shrouds
Label : Earth-Work
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

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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Music
1:38 pm
Fri January 25, 2013

The Steel Wheels perform on The Roots Music Project 1/26

The Steel Wheels

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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