If you can stand the shaky camera work, watch Bill Frisell play a solo acoustic rendition of a Hank Williams classic.

Watch Steve Dawson play two instruments in this clip - first guitar and then pedal steel, one over the other.

This podcast is replete with music. Here are the song titles, artists an album names, in the order they’re used.


The Driving of the Year Nail - Leo Kottke - 6 and 12 String Guitar

Big Bully - Steve Dawson - Bug Parade

The Spanish Entomologist - Leo Kottke - from a live recording in Worcester, MA in 1973

Crow Black Chicken - Ry Cooder - Boomer’s Story

I Can Tell By the Way You Smell - Ry Cooder - Get Rhythm

Vigilante Man - Ry Cooder - Into the Purple Valley

Chain Gang - Ry Cooder and the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - from a live recording in Santa Cruz, CA in 1987

My Walking Stick - Jim Byrnes - My Walking Stick

The Band - Rockin’ Chair - The Band

Bacon Fat - Levon and the Hawks - from the Band’s box set The Band: A Musical History

Home Cookin’ - The Band - from The Band: A Musical History

Tales from the Far Side - Bill Frisell - Tales from the Far Side

Shucks - Bill Frisell - Nashville

The Pioneers - Bill Frisell - Good Dog, Happy Man

Chris Gestrin - Steve Dawson - Telescope

Shame About It - Zubot and Dawson - Chicken Scratch

Everywhere I Go - Willie Nelson - Teatro

Same Brown Earth - Latin Playboys - Latin Playboys

Slipknot - Steve Dawson - Bug Parade






Ry Cooder and the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces play the classic Sam Cooke song Chain Gang, with Bobby King on lead vocals. This concert was filmed but never given the release they’d planned. But you can find all of it, song by song, on youtube.

The Band plays It Makes No Difference, from the film of their farewell concert The Last Waltz. That’s Rick Danko on lead vocals.
 

Watch a young Leo Kottke play the song Vaseline Machine Gun. Yep, it’s just one guy, with no pedals, no effects.

Steve Dawson’s a fan of Daniel Lanois’ solo albums. This is a song from his album Shine.