Episode 2129: #21-29: It's a Slippery Slope, Pt.2
07/21/21 • 58 min
This week we conclude our two-part feature, paying tribute to great slide guitarists. As with last week's program, we dedicate the show to the late Ellen McIlwaine who blazed a path for many contemporary slide guitarists. We'll hear great music from Leo Kottke, Ally Venable, Jon Shain, Sonny Treadway, Rory Block, Bruce Cockburn and many more. More slide guitarists … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.
Episode #21-29:It's A Slippery Slope Pt.2
Host: Tom Druckenmiller
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 / Chrysallis
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 / Chrysallis
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 Microphonr and an Old Guitar” / Desolation Sounds / Fallen Tree
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
This week we conclude our two-part feature, paying tribute to great slide guitarists. As with last week's program, we dedicate the show to the late Ellen McIlwaine who blazed a path for many contemporary slide guitarists. We'll hear great music from Leo Kottke, Ally Venable, Jon Shain, Sonny Treadway, Rory Block, Bruce Cockburn and many more. More slide guitarists … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.
Episode #21-29:It's A Slippery Slope Pt.2
Host: Tom Druckenmiller
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 / Chrysallis
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 / Chrysallis
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 Microphonr and an Old Guitar” / Desolation Sounds / Fallen Tree
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
Previous Episode
Episode 2128: #21-28: It's a Slippery Slope, Pt.1
The music world lost a wonderful player on June 23rd, as Ellen McIlwaine passed at the age of 75. The cause of death was reported to be from esophageal cancer. Ellen came to prominence in the 1970s with her firey slide guitar style. For this week and next, we’ll feature a collection of great slide players, including Bonnie Raitt, Del Rey, Geoff Bartley, Jerry Douglas and of course Ellen McIlwaine. For Ellen, this week we slide … on the The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.
Episode #21-28:It's A Slippery Slope, Pt.1
Host: Tom Druckenmiller
The Sing Out! Radio Magazine is broadcast weekly on the finest public radio stations nationwide and syndicated on iTunes, Stitcher, Podomatic, Bluegrass Planet, The Folk Music Notebook and on the Sing Out! website www.singout.org
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
Next Episode
Episode 2130: #21-30: The Father of British Folk Rock
Ashley Hutchings has been the founder of several British bands that electrified traditional folk music. He founded Fairport Convention with Simon Nicol, and stayed for four albums. He then founded Steeleye Span, and stayed on for a few years. He followed with The Etchingham Steam Band, various Albion Bands and several solo projects.
For this week’s show, we'll hear music from all of these plus music from Shirley and Dolly Collins and Morris On. Ashley Hutchings, the father of British folk rock … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.
Episode #21-30 The Father of British Folk Rock
Host: Tom Druckenmiller
The Sing Out! Radio Magazine is broadcast weekly on the finest public radio stations nationwide and syndicated on iTunes, Stitcher, Podomatic, Bluegrass Planet, The Folk Music Notebook and on the Sing Out! website www.singout.org
Artist/”Song”/CD/Label
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
The Albion Dance Band / “Seneca Two-Step” / Rockin' Barn Dance / Talking Elephant
Ethnic Shuffle Orchestra / “Washington at Valley Forge” / The Fairport Companion / Castle
Fairport Convention / “She Moves Through the Fair” / What We Did on Our Holidays / Island
Fairport Convention / “Autopsy” / Unhalfbricking / Carthage
Fairport Convention / “Matty Groves” / Liege and Lief / Island
Steeleye Span / “The Blacksmith” / Hark the Village Wait / Sanctuary
Steeleye Span / “The Lark in the Morning” / Please to See the King / Sanctuary
The Albion Dance Band / “Merry Sherwood Rangers-Time to Ring Some Changes” / Rockin' Barn Dance / Talking Elephant
The Etchingham Steam Band / “Hard Times of Old England” / The Etchingham Steam Band / Fleg'ling
Shirley & Dolly Collins / “Bonny Kate” / Anthems in Eden / BGO
The Albion Country Band / “New St. George-La Rotta” / Battle of the Field / BGO
Various / “Old Woman Tossed up in a Blanket-Shepherd'd Hey-Trunkles” / Morris On / Carthage
Steeleye Span / “Rave On” / Rave On / Edsel
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
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