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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 22, 2012

12:07 PM
Christmas Times A Coming
Artist : Bill Monroe
Album : The Music Of Bill Monroe
Label : MCA
12:10 PM
The Holly & The Ivy/The Cherry Tree Carol
Artist : John Fahey w/ Terry Robb
Album : The Rounder Christmas Album
Label : Rounder
12:12 PM
Everybody’s Waitin’ For (The Man With The Big Bag)
Artist : Black Prairie w/ Sallie Ford
Album : Holidays Rule
Label : HEAR
12:16 PM
Christmas Fais Do Do
Artist : Marcia Ball
Album : Genuine House Rockin' Christmas
Label : Alligator
12:21 PM
Christmas In Prison
Artist : John Prine
Album : Sweet Revenge
Label : Atlantic
12:24 PM
Christmas In Washington
Artist : Steve Earle
Album : El Corazon
Label : Warner Bros.
12:29 PM
The Ragpicker’s Dream
Artist : Mark Knopfler
Album : The Ragpicker's Dream
Label : Warner Bros.
12:33 PM
I Heard The Bells On Christmas Morning
Artist : The Civil Wars
Album : Holidays Rule
Label : HEAR
12:37 PM
Sleigh Ride
Artist : Scotty Karate
Album : A Holiday Message From Chocolate Santa & The Enchanted Igloo
Label : Scotty Karate
12:38 PM
Christmas Island
Artist : The Sweetback Sisters
Album : The Sweetback Sisters' Country Christmas Singalong Spectacular
Label : Signature Sounds
12:42 PM
Daddy’s Drinkin’ Up Our Christmas
Artist : The Christmas Jug Band
Album : Rhythm On The Roof
Label : Globe
12:47 PM
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Artist : Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers
Album : Oh Santa! New & Used Holiday Classics
Label : Yep Roc
12:52 PM
It’s Christmas
Artist : Victoria Vox
Album : The Christmas Card EP
Label : Obus
12:56 PM
Feliz Navidad
Artist : Billy Joe Shaver & Flaco Jimenez
Album : The Real Deal
Label : Compadre
12:59 PM
Frosty The Snowman
Artist : Los Straitjackets
Album : Tis The Season For Los Straitjackets
Label : Yep Roc
1:02 PM
Last Month Of The Year
Artist : The Tarbox Ramblers
Album : A Fix Back East
Label : Rounder
1:04 PM
Christmas Is A-Comin’
Artist : Leadbelly
Album : Where Will You Be Christmas Day?
Label : Dust To Digital
1:06 PM
Go Tell It On The Mountain
Artist : The Blind Boys Of Alabama w/ Tom Waits
Album : Go Tell It On The Mountain
Label : Real World
1:10 PM
Christmas Blues
Artist : Bob Dylan
Album : Christmas In The Heart
Label : Columbia
1:14 PM
Christmas Boogie
Artist : The Davis Sisters
Album : Country Goes Rock 'N' Roll Vol.2
Label : Rev-Ola
1:16 PM
Two Step Around The Christmas Tree
Artist : Suzy Bogguss
Album : Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Label : Compadre
12:19 PM
The Wonder Song
Artist : The Indigo Girls
Album : Happy Holly Days
Label : Vanguard
1:22 PM
Blue Christmas
Artist : The Heartless Bastards
Album : Holidays Rule
Label : HEAR
1:26 PM
O! Santa
Artist : Chatham County Line
Album : Oh Santa! New & Used Holiday Classics
Label : Yep Roc
1:29 PM
Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem
Artist : The Stanley Brothers
Album : Definitive Collection
Label : Time Life
1:33 PM
We Three Kings
Artist : Dirk Powell
Album : A Fret Free Christmas
Label : Valcour
1:36 PM
Christmas Must Be Tonight
Artist : The Band
Album : Islands
Label : Capitol
1:40 PM
In Christ There Is No East Or West
Artist : Mavis Staples
Album : You Are Not Alone
Label : Anti-
1:45 PM
Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree
Artist : The Sweetback Sisters
Album : The Sweetback Sisters' Country Christmas Singalong Spectacular
Label : Signature Sounds
1:47 PM
The Christmas Song
Artist : Los Straitjackets
Album : Tis The Season For Los Straitjackets
Label : Yep Roc
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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