We’re going to take a step away from vintage releases in our first episode of 2016 and look back at last year’s Americana releases, focusing on tributes and covers from some of the very best performers of the time. We’ll hear from Happy Traum, Jorma Kaukonen, Robert Earl Keen Jr., the Alvin Brothers, Bob Dylan, Jonathan Edwards and many others as the cover music from the past century. While most are those of tradition, we’ll also hear covers of Stephen Foster, Carter Family, and Woody Guthrie for good measure. Tribute albums include Bob Dylan’s Shadows in the Night and Asleep at the Wheel’s “Still The King” Bob Wills tribute. Lots of territory to cover so I hope you’ll join in!
No.
1
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
2
Mavis Staples
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Your Good Fortune (EP)
3
Jorma Kaukonen
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
Ain't In No Hurry
4
Jorma Kaukonen
Sweet Fern
Ain't In No Hurry
5
Darryl Holter
California Stars
Radio Songs
6
Darryl Holter
Do Re Mi
Radio Songs
7
Jonathan Edwards
Mole
Tomorrow's Child
8
Hamilton County Ramblers
Hard Times
Hamilton County Ramblers
9
Emmylou Harris
Bury Me Beneath The Willow
Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
10
Larry Cordle & The Virginia Luthiers
Train On The Island
Orthophonic Joy
11
The Cox Family
Cash On The Barrelhead
Gone Like The Cotton
12
Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
Footprints in the Snow
Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions
13
Lyle Lovett; Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
T For Texas
Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions
14
Asleep at the Wheel
Time Changes Everything (with Buddy Miller)
Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
15
Asleep at the Wheel
Faded Love (with The Time Jumpers)
Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
16
Robbie O'Connell
Pretty Saro
Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie
17
Happy Traum
Careless Love Blues (feat. Jerry Marotta, Byron Isaacs & John Sebastian)
Just For the Love Of It
18
Happy Traum
I Aint Got No Home (feat. John Sebastian, Byron Isaacs & Jerry Marotta)