This program concludes our two-part feature “It’s a Slippery Slope,” showcasing more great slide guitarists. As with last week’s episode we dedicate the show to the late Ellen McIlwayne, who blazed a path for many future slide guitarists. We’ll hear great music from Leo Kottke, Ally Venable, Jon Shain, Sonny Treadway, Rory Block, Bruce Cockburn and many more. Slide down the slippery slope with us one more time . . . this week on the Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

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Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Leo Kottke / “Available Space” / Guitar Music / Chrysallis
Jon Shain & FJ Ventre / “Lord Have Mercy” / Never Found A Way To Tame The Blues / Flyin’
Bruce Cockburn / “You Don’t Have to Play the Horses” / Night Vision / True North
Crying Sam Collins and his Git-Fiddle / “Devil In the Lion’s Den” / Jail House Blues / Yazoo
Ally Venable / “Played the Game” / Heart of Fire / Ruf

Sam Bush & Jerry Douglas / “Girl of the North Country” / Ice Caps: Peaks of Telluride / Sugar Hill
Michael Cooney / “John Henry” / The Cheese Stands Alone / Folk Legacy
Mary Flower / “Nine Pound Hammer” / Honey From the Comb / Time & Strike
Leo Kottke / “All I Have to Do is Dream” / Guitar Music / Chrysallis

Tony Furtado & the American Gypsies / “The Ghost of Blind Willie Johnson” / Live Gypsy / Dualtone
Reverend Robert Wilkins / “I Wish I was in Heaven Sitting Down” / Blues at Newport / Vanguard
Sonny Treadwell / “Amazing Grace” / Sacred Steel / Arhoolie
Rory Block / “Prove it On Me” / Prove it On Me / Stoney Plain
Norman Blake-Nancy Blake-Tut Taylor / “Guitar Rag” / Shacktown Road / Plectrafone
Ayla Brook and the Sound Men / “Cheap Microphone and an Old Guitar” / Desolation Sounds / Fallen Tree
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways