Last year Bela Fleck released My Bluegrass Heart, a two CD collection of self-penned bluegrass instrumentals. It’s a return to the music that initially established him as one of the foremost performers on the five-string banjo. This week we present music from Bela’s CD as well as from some of the finest players over the past half century. It’s a Banjo Special … this week on the Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Nick Hornbuckle / “Cumberland Gap” / Twelve By Two (Plus or Minus One) / Corvus
Bela Fleck / “The Old North Woods” / My Bluegrass Heart / BMG
Nashville Bluegrass Band-Alan O’Bryant/ “I’ll Just Keep On Loving You” / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill
John Hartford / “Gentle On My Mind” / Steamboat Whistle Blues / Radio Bremen
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-John McKuen / “Clemente Opus 36” / Dirt Silver & Gold / BGO

Bill Emerson and the Sweet Dixie Band / “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” / Bill Emerson and the Sweet
              Dixie Band / Rebel
Emerson & Taylor / “Espanol” / Appaloosa / Webco
Old Man Luedecke / “Just Like a River” / Proof of Love / Black Hen
Bela Fleck / “Hunky Dory” / My Bluegrass Heart / BMG
Nick Hornbuckle / “Yell in the Shoats” / Twelve By Two (Plus or Minus One) / Corvus

JD Crowe & the New South / “Sally Goodin” / JD Crowe & the New South / Rounder
The Osborne Brothers / “I Wonder Where You Are Tonight” / Dayton to Knoxville / Pinecastle
Flatt & Scruggs / “Earl’s Breakdown” / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia
Roger Sprung and Doc Watson / “The World is Waiting for the Sunrise” / Classic Bluegrass /
              Smithsonian Folkways
Bela Fleck / “Bum’s Rush” / My Bluegrass Heart / BMG
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways