This week we begin a two-part feature with great slide guitarists including Ellen McIlwaine, David Bromberg, Geoff Bartley, Bonnie Raitt, Donna Herula and lots more, each player with their own individual style. Slide along … this week and next 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