Sing Out! Radio Magazine

For this episode, we feature some musicians who have acted as mentors to young traditional musicians. We'll hear from Dwight Diller, Mike Seeger, Val Mindel & Emily Miller, Alice Gerrard, Norman Blake and many more. Dewey Balfa always said that a culture is preserved one generation at a time, so we'll pay it forward … this week on the Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

Old Buck / “Mike in the Wilderness” / Old Buck / Tin Halo

Dwight Diller / “Waynesboro” / W Va Mountain Music:Harvest / Yew Pine

Mike Seeger / “Little Birdie” / Southern Banjo Sounds / Smithsonian Folkways

Any Old Time Stringband / “Turkey Buzzard-Chinquapin Hunting” / I Bid You Goodnight / Arhoolie

Val Mindel & Emily Miller / “Gone Home” / Close to Home / Yodel-Ay-Hee

Marcus Martin / “Gray Eagle” / When I Get My New House Done / University of North Carolina

Tommy Jarrell / “John Brown's Dream” / Legends of Old-Time Music / County

Tommy Jarrell / “Greasy String” / Legends of Old-Time Music / County

Jimmy Triplett / “Piney Woods” / Natural History / Bemlar

Old Buck / “Highlander's Farewell” / Old Buck / Tin Halo

Craver, Hicks, Watson & Newberry / “Sally Ann” / You've Been a Friend to Me / Barker

Pete Sutherland / “Pioneer Children Sang as they Walked-ye ke ke” / Streak O' Lean / Epact

Alice Gerrard / “Wild Hog in the Woods” / Big Bend Killing / Great Smoky Mountains Association

Don Pedi / “Old Black Cat Couldn't Catch a Rat” / Short Time Here / Walnut Mountain 

The Pilot Mountain Bobcats / “Sugar Hill” / Dance By the Light of the Moon / Yodel-Ay-Hee

Norman Blake / “Whistling Rufus” / Green Light on the Southern / Plectraphone

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways