![]() ![]() "I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me." The lad in the red shirt is Rufus Wainwright Kate's son by her marriage to Loudon Wainwright. Very class conscious he wrote such classics as "The Ballad of Accounting" and "The Workers Song" probably best known in the US in the version by the Dropkick Murphys (now there is a different sound!!!). If you hanker for Celtic music, a much shorter series that brought together Irish and Scottish performers was called the Highland Sessions, and many of those are also on you tube.ĭick Gaughan is a wonderful singer/songwriter as well as a singer of folk songs, and an amazing instrumentalist. ![]() Somehow though, Jerry Douglas seems to be on an awful lot of them LOL. If you want to kill several hours, just go on you tube you will find many such as this. In addition to the performers seen here others included Mary Black, Nanci Griffith, Dougie MacLean, Kathy Mattea, and many more. They brought together traditional style singers from both sides of the pond in the mid 90s to make music together. This is one of a wonderful series of concerts sponsored by BBC called "The Transatlantic Sessions". ![]()
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