We revisit tradition and roots with a number of contemporary performers who honor the American musical heritage with new arrangements, new interpretations, and songs whose lyrics might take on a different meaning in a new time. What was ripe for picking in the first part of the century might not mean all of the same in our world today. We’ll hear songs of love, death, destitution, prostitution, farmer’s work, the sky above and the sea below… You’ll hear Americana releases from as far back as 1971 and we’ll include a number of tracks from this year…the year 2015…with the one thing in common being that the songs performed have stories that go further back and, in most cases, go so far back that they are considered traditional.
| No. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
| 2 | Van Dyke Parks/Mondrian | Sail Away Lady | The Harry Smith Project Live Vol. 2 |  |
| 3 | The Wailin' Jennys | Long Time Traveller | Firecracker | |
| 4 | Rosanne Cash | Motherless Children | The List | |
| 5 | Cyd Cassone/Ruthie Foster | Death Came a Knockin' (Travelin' Shoes) | Stages | |
| 6 | Steve Martin | Sweet Heaven When I Die | Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited | |
| 7 | Pharis and Jason Romero | Goodbye Old Paint | A Wanderer I'll Stay | |
| 8 | Spuyten Duyvil | Stewball | The Social Music Hour Vol. 1 | |
| 9 | Alison Krauss | Cluck Old Hen | Every Time You Say Goodbye | |
| 10 | Robert Earl Keen, Jr. | East Virginia Blues | Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions | |
| 11 | Adkins & Loudermilk | Swing Low Sweet Chariot | Adkins & Loudermilk | |
| 12 | She & Him | Swing Low Sweet Chariot | Volume One | |
| 13 | Ben Harper & The Blind Boys Of Alabama | If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again | There Will Be a Light | |
| 14 | Allen Toussaint | St. James Infirmary | The Bright Mississippi | |
| 15 | Ashley Monroe | The Storms Are On The Ocean | Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited | |
| 16 | Uncle Tupelo | No Depression | No Depression | |
| 17 | Band Of Ruhks | Lost Highway | Band Of Ruhks | |
| 18 | Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men | What Does the Deep Sea Say? | Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land | |
| 19 | Mudcrutch | Shady Grove | Mudcrutch | |
| 20 | Dwight Yoakam/The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | Some Dark Holler | Dwight's Used Records | |
| 21 | Rhiannon Giddens | Round About the Mountain | Tomorrow Is My Turn | |
| 22 | Leo Kottke | Cripple Creek | Mudlark | |
| 23 | David Johansen | Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me | Shaker | |
| 24 | David Johansen & The Harry Smiths | Richland Woman | David Johansen and the Harry Smiths | |
| 25 | The Boxmasters | Knoxville Girl | The Boxmasters Disc 2 | |
| 26 | Bruce Springsteen | Shenandoah | We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1 | |
| 27 | Bruce Springsteen | O Mary Don't You Weep | We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1 | |
| 28 | Charlie Haden | Old Joe Clark | Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy | |
| 29 | The Duhks | Banjo Roustabout | Beyond the Blue | |
| 30 | Kate & Anna McGarrigle | Green Green Rocky Road | High On A Mountain | |
| 31 | Emmylou Harris | Bury Me Beneath The Willow | Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited | |