On this week’s show, we offer selections from some of the best flatpicking instrumentalists (with one ringer) in acoustic music. We'll hear guitar artistry from Norman Blake, Maybelle Carter, Matt Flinner, Beppe Gambetta, Wayne Henderson, Alison Brown and many more. Plectrum on the six-string … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.
Episode #20-33: Flatpick Central
Host: Tom Druckenmiller
Artist/”Song”/CD/Label
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
Norman Blake & Rich O'Brien / “Tennessee Wagoner” / Be Ready Bos / Shanachie
The Carter Family / “You Are My Flower” / Country Music Hall of Fame Series / MCA
Don Reno & Red Smiley / “Under the Double Eagle” / Strictly Instrumental / Rural Rhythm
Wayne Henderson / “Snowflake Reel” / Rugby Guitar / Flying Fish
Tyler Grant & Robin Kessinger / “Garfield's March” / Kanawha County Flatpicking / Grant Central
Alison Brown / “One Morning in May” / Stolen Moments / Compass
Beppe Gambetta / “Hide and Seek” / Where the Wind Blows-Dove Tia O Vento / Borealis
Molly Tuttle / “Sit Back and Watch It Roll” / When You're Ready / Compass
Norman Blake & Rich O'Brien / “Flop Eared Mule” / Be Ready Boys / Shanachie
The Andrew Collins Trio / “Cello Song” / Tongue & Groove / Self Produced
Matt Flinner Trio / “Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump” /Traveling Roots / Compass
The Harmonic Tone Revealers / “Half Past Four” / The Harmonic Tone Revealers / Corvus
The Kentucky Colonels / “Lonesome Road Blues” / Long Journey Home / Vanguard
The Kentucky Colonels / “Beaumont Rag” / Long Journey Home / Vanguard
Russ Barenberg / “Little Monk” / When at Last / Compass
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways