Last year Bela Fleck released My Bluegrass Heart, a two CD collection of self-penned bluegrass instrumentals. It's a return to the music that initially established him as one of the foremost performers on the five string banjo. This week we present music from Bela's CD as well as from some of the finest players over the past half century. It's a Banjo Special … this week on the Sing Out! Radio Magazine.
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways Nick Hornbuckle / “Cumberland Gap” / Twelve By Two (Plus or Minus One) / Corvus
Bela Fleck / “The Old North Woods” / My Bluegrass Heart / BMG
Nashville Bluegrass Band-Alan O'Bryant/ “I'll Just Keep On Loving You” / Home Of The Blues / Sugar Hill
John Hartford / “Gentle On My Mind” / Steamboat Whistle Blues / Radio Bremen
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-John McKuen / “Clemente Opus 36” / Dirt Silver & Gold / BGO
Bill Emerson and the Sweet Dixie Band / “Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico” / Bill Emerson and the Sweet Dixie Band / Rebel
Emerson & Taylor / “Espanol” / Appaloosa / Webco
Old Man Luedecke / “Just Like a River” / Proof of Love / Black Hen
Bela Fleck / “Hunky Dory” / My Bluegrass Heart / BMG
Nick Hornbuckle / “Yell in the Shoats” / Twelve By Two (Plus or Minus One) / Corvus
JD Crowe & the New South / “Sally Goodin” / JD Crowe & the New South / Rounder
The Osborne Brothers / “I Wonder Where You Are Tonight” / Dayton to Knoxville / Pinecastle
Flatt & Scruggs / “Earl's Breakdown” / Foggy Mountain Jamboree / Columbia
Roger Sprung and Doc Watson / “The World is Waiting for the Sunrise” / Classic Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
Bela Fleck / “Bum's Rush” / My Bluegrass Heart / BMG
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways