This week we focus on traditional music masters – both instrumentalists and singers – who have inspired the next generations of young tradition bearers. We’ll hear from Dwight Diller, Mike Seeger, Val Mindel & Emily Miller, Alice Gerrard, Norman Blake and many more. It’s traditional music mentors … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Old Buck / “Mike in the Wilderness” / Old Buck / Tin Halo
Dwight Diller / “Waynesboro” / W Va Mountain Music:Harvest / Yew Pine
Mike Seeger / “Little Birdie” / Southern Banjo Sounds / Smithsonian Folkways
Any Old Time Stringband / “Turkey Buzzard-Chinquapin Hunting” / I Bid You Goodnight
              / Arhoolie
Val Mindel & Emily Miller / “Gone Home” / Close to Home / Yodel-Ay-Hee

Marcus Martin / “Gray Eagle” / When I Get My New House Done / University of
              North Carolina
Tommy Jarrell / “John Brown’s Dream” / Legends of Old-Time Music / County
Tommy Jarrell / “Greasy String” / Legends of Old-Time Music / County
Jimmy Triplett / “Piney Woods” / Natural History / Bemlar
Old Buck / “Highlander’s Farewell” / Old Buck / Tin Halo

Craver, Hicks, Watson & Newberry / “Sally Ann” / You’ve Been a Friend to Me / Barker
Pete Sutherland / “Pioneer Children Sang as they Walked-ye ke ke” / Streak O’ Lean
              / Epact
Alice Gerrard / “Wild Hog in the Woods” / Big Bend Killing / Great Smoky Mountains
              Association
Don Pedi / “Old Black Cat Couldn’t Catch a Rat” / Short Time Here / Walnust Mountain
The Pilot Mountain Bobcats / “Sugar Hill” / Dance By the Light of the Moon /
              Yodel-Ay-Hee
Norman Blake / “Whistling Rufus” / Green Light on the Southern / Plectraphone
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
              Smithsonian Folkways