Podcast: The Tribute, pt 1
Episode #15-34 | airing 8-19-15
Ever since the Concert for Bangladesh organized by George Harrison there have been countless concerts and recordings in tribute to a musical style or an artist. The next two weeks we will sample some of the very best. This week we’ll hear tributes to Pete Seeger, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, North American Regions and the late steel guitar master Buddy Emmons.
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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle /
Smithsonian-Folkways
Marcel Dadi & Thom Bresh / “Walking the Strings” / A Celebration
of Merle Travis / Shanachie
Lauren Sheehan / “Living in the Country” / For Pete’s Sake /
Wepecket Island
Pat Humphries / “Old Devil Time” / Seeds: The Songs of
Pete Seeger / Appleseed
Bruce Springsteen / “Oh Mary Don’t You Weep” / We Shall Overcome:
The Seeger Sessions Columbia
The Hillbenders / “Pinball Wizard” / Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry / Compass
Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / “Montana Cowboy” / Sing the Songs
of Vern & Ray / Spruce and Maple
Chris Quinn / “Cold Tea” / The Banjo Special / Merriweather
The Earls of Leicester / “Till the End of the World Rolls ‘Round” /
The Earls of Leicester Rounder
Marcel Dadi / “Saturday Night Shuffle” / A Celebration of Merle
Travis / Shanachie
The Deseret String Band / “We Are Talking of Utah” / Utah: Songs
of Statehood / Okehdokee
Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers / “Pisgah” / Traditional Musics of
Alabama / Alabama Traditions
Brian Miller / “The Maid of the Logan Bough” / Minnesota Lumberjack
Songs / Two Tap
Howie MacDonald /”Various Dance Selections” / The Bridges of Cape
Breton County / Celestial Entertainment
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell / “That’s All It Took” / The Big E:
A Salute to Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons / MPI
Patti Loveless / “You’re Through Folling Me” / The Lost Notebooks of
Hank Williams / Columbia
Asleep at the Wheel with Brad Paisley / “My Window Faces the South” /
Still the King / Bismeaux
Pete Seeger / “If I Had a Hammer (excerpt)” / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
Smithsonian Folkways