The theme for this edition of Stranger Songs is “Rare Collaborations,” – each song features artists collaborating with an artist or artists they don’t or didn’t usually work with.
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fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy |
The Weight The Band & The Staple Singers - The Last Waltz - Capitol |
Green Green Rocky Road Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Emmylou Harris, Loudon Wainwright III - The McGarrigle Hour - Hannibal |
Paper of Pins Jean Ritchie & Oscar Brand - The Riverside Folklore Series, Volume Three: Singing the New Traditions - Riverside |
I Remember Loving You Priscilla Herdman & Utah Phillips - Darkness into Light - Flying Fish |
‘Tain’t Such a Much Eric Bibb & Odetta - Friends - Telarc |
Ballad of the Absent Mare Perla Batalla & David Hidalgo - Bird on the Wire: The Songs of Leonard Cohen - Mechuda Music |
Study War No More (Down by the Riverside) Barbara Dane & The Chambers Brothers - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - Smithsonian Folkways |
fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy |
Tugboats Stringband & Stan Rogers - The Indispensable 1972-2002 - Nick |
Big Water Tom Russell & Iris DeMent - The Long Way Around - HighTone |
I'm Gonna Fly Kimmie Rhodes & Townes Van Zandt - West Texas Heaven - Justice |
Don’t Mean a Thing Josh White, Jr. & Guthrie Thomas - Delicate Balance - Silverwolf |
Here in California Dave Alvin & Christy McWilson - West of the West - Yep Roc |
Please Send Me Someone to Love Odetta & Dr. John - Blues Everywhere I Go - M.C. |
Betty and Dupree Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee & Chris Barber's Jazz Band - London, 1958 - Jasmine |
There Ain’t No Sweet Man That’s Worth the Salt of My Tears Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble & Martha Wainwright - Private Astronomy: A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke - Edge |
Don't Get Around Much Anymore Members of The Duke Ellington Orchestra & B.B. King - The Stereophonic Sound of Duke Ellington - Bright Orange |
Two Sleepy People Dave Van Ronk & Christine Lavin - Hummin’ to Myself - Gazell |
Remember When Michael Jerome Browne & Roxane Potvin - That's Where It's At! - Borealis |
Meatballs Big Daddy Wilson & Shaneeka Simon - Hard Time Blues - Continental Blue Heaven |
We Shall Be Free Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Sonny Terry & Cisco Houston - Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection - Smithsonian Folkways |
From Here On In The Klezmatics & Susan McKeown - Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie - Jewish Music Group |
Will the Circle Be Unbroken Tom Rush, Arlo Guthrie, Eric Andersen & Judy Collins - Judy Collins Wildflower Festival - Wildflower |
Saskatoon Moon Connie Kaldor & Roy Forbes - Wood River - Coyote |
Great stuff! I'm loving these duets.
4:06 PM, August 24th, 2021