On the program this time around, we present “It’s a Slippery Slope, Pt.1” featuring a collection of great slide guitar players. Included are Bonnie Raitt, Del Rey, Geoff Bartley, Jerry Douglas and of course, Ellen McIlwayne. Slide along with us for the next couple of shows, starting 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
Ellen McIlwaine / “Losing You” / Up from the Skies / Polydor
Donna Herula / “Bang at the Door” / Bang at the Door / Self-produced
Ry Cooder / “At the Dark End of the Street” / Boomers Story / Reprise
The Jerry Douglas Band / “2:19” / What If / Rounder
Will Kimbrough / “Cape Henry” / Spring Break / Daphne

Roger Williams / “Slipped Disc” / Masters of Slide: The Spider Sessions / Mountain Home
Sally Van Meter & Orville Johnson / “Tex Mex Shindig” / Masters of Slide: The Spider
              Sessions / Mountain Home
Santo & Johnny / “Sleepwalk” / Sleepwalk / Jasmin
Bonnie Raitt / “Write Me a Few of Your Lines-Kokomo Blues” / Takin’ My Time / Warner Brothers
Ellen McIlwaine / “Sliding” / Up from the Skies / Polydor

LeRoy Parnell / “On the Road” / On the Road / Arista
Del Rey / “Tennessee Local” / At the Uke Shack #2 / Hobemian
Leo Kottke / “Pamela Brown” / Ice Water / Capitol
Geoff Bartley / “Grinnin’ in Your Face” / Hear That Wind Howl / Waterbug
The David Bromberg Band / “Walkin’ Blues” / The Blues the Whole Blues and Nothing but the
              Blues / Red House
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways