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.
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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