Music performed by: Justin Hiltner (@hiltnerj, http://justinhiltner.com) Esther Konkara (@esther_konkara) Steph Jenkins (@slhjenkins, http://www.stephaniejenkins.info) Stephanie Coleman (@stephiecoleman) Courtney Hartman (@courthartman, https://www.courtneyhartman.com) Shelley Washington (@shelleyplaysaxy, http://shelleywashington.com) Bora Yoon (@borabot, http://borayoon.com) Caroline Shaw (@caroshawmusic, https://carolineshaw.com) Recordings from National Sawdust were part of the NationalSawdust+ series: Elena Park is the curator of NationalSawdust+ Special thanks to recording engineer Garth MacAleavey, Jeff Tang, Charles Hagaman, and everyone at National Sawdust. Thanks also to Alex Overington and Jeremy Bloom for mix engineering.
Listener supported WNYC Studios Chad Dolly Partons America so I did say last week that the next episode would be in two weeks, and that is true.
Shima and I are working on episode seven as we speak.
But consider this a bonus because during the course of producing and recording this series, we collected a lot of music.
A lot of people came in and performed songs for us.
Actually, a lot of people we were interviewing suddenly broke into song, and we ended up having a lot of music.
And we've been getting a lot of emails saying, play more music.
Okay, so here we go.
In this bonus ep, I'm going to present to you guys some of the musicians that we encountered, most of whom were interpreting Dall?
E's music.
A bit later, I'm going to play you selections from a live event that I hosted that was loosely inspired by the series and by the music in the series.
But for the moment, I just want to play you some stuff that people have asked for, starting with.
Well, you know, last EP we did episode six about Jolene.
We featured a guy named Justin Hiltner playing a song.
His song Silver to Exit wasn't his song.
It was an old British ballad that he heard Dolly cover on one of her bluegrass albums that became very important to him.
It's a song called Silver Dagger, and he played that.
We had a lot of people ask to hear the whole thing.
So here it is.
And I'll tell you, when he first played this song for us, it stuck so deep in my head.
Maybe we would want to reset for that.