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Thread #143783   Message #3320961
Posted By: Desert Dancer
10-Mar-12 - 12:11 PM
Thread Name: Jean Ritchie on Stephen Colbert
Subject: RE: Jean Ritchie on Stephen Colbert
Dang it, Spaw, I was trying to redirect folks to the other thread. :-)

Sorry to hear that you folks can't get the program out of the country. I hope it gets posted to YouTube... don't know how to do that, myself.

The first song they all did together is "Good Old Mountain Dew", which I thought was kind of a funny choice, and done quite soberly. Then they finished with "Goodnight Irene", and Colbert got to play Elvis Costello's guitar, while he played ukelele.

Meanwhile, if you go to the Alan Lomax Collection online thread, you can find the link to the collection and browse among all the wonderful recordings there, including recordings of Jean Ritchie. (But I don't think there's any Emmylou.)

~ Becky in Tucson