This week we conclude our two-part feature, It’s a Slippery Slope, with more great slide guitar selections. We’ll hear fine music from Leo Kottke, Ally Venable, Jon Shain, Sonny Treadway, Rory Block, Bruce Cockburn and quite a few others. Slip and slide along with them … 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 / Chrysalis
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 / Chrysalis

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