This week we complete our three-part program featuring the best music from 2017. This time it’s bluegrass and blues, with fiddles and banjos from Molly Tuttle, Noam Pikelny, Old Salt Union and many more. And on the blues side we’ll hear from Jim Kweskin, Taj Mahal & Keb’Mo’, Eilen Jewell, John Lee Hooker and others. It’s part three of our “2017 Best of” series … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
              Smithsonian Folkways
Ned Luberecki / “Night Driver” / Take Five / Self Produced
Chris Jones & the Night Drivers / “All the Ways I’m Gone” / Made to Move / Mountain Home
Molly Tuttle / “Good Enough” / Rise / Compass
Noam Pikelny / “I’ve Been a Long Time Leavin’ (But I’ll be a Long Time Gone) / Universal
              Favorite / Rounder
Bobby Osborne / “Don’t Be Cruel” / Original / Compass

Summer Brooke and The Mountain Faith Band / “Who Will You Be” / Small Town Life /
              Mountain Fever
John Reischman and the Jaybirds / “Two of Us” / On That Other Green Shore / Corvus
Larson & Williams / “Big Fool of the Year” / Chapter 3 / Mountain Home
Old Salt Union / “Hard Line” / Old Salt Union / Compass
Ned Luberecki / “Where No Man Has Gone Before (Star Trek Theme)” / Take Five /
              Self Produced

Jim Kweskin / “Staggerlee” / Unjugged / Hornbeam
Duke Robillard w/ Maria Muldaur / “Was That the Human Thing to Do” / Duke Robillard
              and His Dames of Rhythm / M.C. Records
Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ / “Diving Duck Blues” / Tajmo / Concord

Eilen Jewell / “Crazy Mixed Up World” / Down Hearted Blues / Signature Sounds
John Lee Hooker / “Boom Boom” / King of the Boogie / Craft-Concord
Johnny Nicholas / “Believe I’ll Make a Change” / Too Many Bad Habits / Self Produced
Kim Wilson / “Edgier” / Blues and Boogie Vol.1 / Severn
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
              Smithsonian Folkways