Gillian Welch and David Rawlings play a three-song set in The Current studio for Radio Heartland

  Radio Heartland

On Friday, Nov. 8, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’ 10th studio album, Woodland, was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Folk Album, and the lead track, “Empty Trainload of Sky,” received a nomination for Best Americana Performance.

        Hashtag  - Empty Trainload of Sky-Howdy Howdy- Interview with host Mike Pengra

While in St. Paul for two nights of concerts at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Welch and Rawlings walked over to The Current where Radio Heartland host and producer Mike Pengra welcomed them, along with bassist Paul Kowert, for a studio session. After playing a selection of songs from Woodland, Welch and Rawlings stuck around for a conversation with Mike Pengra. Watch the performances above.

The album is named after their Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, which was destroyed by a tornado in 2020, with the artists further stating in a press release that the songs are "a swirl of contradictions, emptiness, fullness, joy, grief, destruction, [and] permanence."

https://www.gillianwelch-davidrawlings.com/tour
 
 

Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo' - Diving Duck Blues

                              

Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo' - Diving Duck Blues Recorded Live: 8/14/2017 - Paste Studios - New York, NY
                    

Blues legends Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' stopped by the Paste studio on Aug. 14 to promote their latest collaboration record, the cleverly titled, TajMo. The duo started off with Taj Mahal's well known tune, Diving Duck Blues, which is featured on their new album

TajMo is a joint album by the American blues musicians Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo'. It was released May 5, 2017, and won the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. TajMo is the twenty-sixth studio album by Taj Mahal and the thirteenth by Keb' Mo'
 
 

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers (feat.Mick Taylor) - California

 70th Birthday Concert Liverpool, England on 19 July 2003

California (Mayall/Thompson) album The Turning Point
John Mayall - Piano, Guitar, Harmonica and Vocals.Mick Taylor-guitar Buddy Whittington - Guitar and Vocals. Joe Yuele - Drums. Hank Van Sickle - Bass Guitar. Tom Canning - Organ and Piano 

                  John Mayall (Macclesfield, 29 november 1933 – Californië, 22 juli 2024)

Neil Young - "World On A String"

            

                                                              at the Roxy -21 sept.2023

                        The Band :Nils Lofgren,Micah Nelson,Billiy Talbot ,Ralph Molina

                                  "World On A String" album Tonight's The Night
 

Van Morrison - "Tupelo Honey" - Robbie Robertson Celebration : The Forum (October 17, 2024)

"Tupelo Honey" is a popular song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and the title song from his 1971 album, Tupelo Honey. The title derives from an expensive, mild-tasting tupelo honey produced in the southeastern United States. Released as a single in 1971, it reached number 47 on the U.S. pop chart.
                                                                      

Pokey Lafarge - "Garbage Man Blues"

 Pokey LaFarge, born Andrew Heissler (Bloomington, 26-6-1983), is an American musician who makes music inspired by American folk and blues

 His repertoire consists of a mix of Americana, early jazz, ragtime for string instruments, country blues, Western swing, Vaudeville, and Appalachian folk.

Musicians that have influenced him include Howlin' Wolf, Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe, Milton Brown and the Musical Brownies, Modern Mountaineers, Sleepy John Estes, Henry Townsend, Frank Fairfield, Fats Waller, Emmett Miller, Marc Bolan, Peter Lafarge, and Willie Dixon.

 

                                                       https://www.pokeylafarge.net/

 

Bob Dylan - Forgetful Heart (nice version)

                                                                      Manchester 2011

   Forgetful Heart written by Robert Hunter & Bob Dylan (Album Together Trough Live)

Van Morrison - Help Me/Moondance

                                                  Ronnie Scott's Club, London 24-05-1989)

  

 Help Me

The Band : Richie Buckley,sax  -Pee Wee Ellis-sax/trumpet - Dave Early -drums,Georgie Fame,keys

Steve Gregory,sax,-Bernie Holland.guitar-Neil DriNkwater,keys,-Brian Odgers,bassHadji Ahkba-flugelhorn

   Moondance

                                                   http://ivan.vanomatic.de/

Nils Lofgren & The Tribeca Playboys- Like a Hurricane (Neil Young)

                           performed live at the 2015 Kristen Ann Carr Foundation Gala, NYC

Nils Lofgren (guitar/vocals) with the Tribeca Playboys (members of Bruce Springsteen's Sessions Band) Soozie Tyrell (vocals/fiddle) Lisa Lowell (vocals) Curt Ramm (trumpet) Ed Manion (tenor sax) Charlie Giordano (accordion/keyboards) Sam Bardfeld (fiddle) Jeremy Chatzky (bass) Larry Eagle (drums/percussion) and special guest Curtis King (vocals)

https://kristenanncarrfund.org/about/our-history/
 

Lightnin Hopkins - Live 1964

           

Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982)^] was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist from Centerville, Texas. In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No. 71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
                                   

The musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that Hopkins is "the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act".^[3] He influenced Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams, Jr., and a generation of blues musicians like Stevie Ray Vaughan, whose Grammy winning song "Rude Mood" was directly inspired by the Texan's song "Hopkins' Sky Hop".(wikipedia)