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Dolly Parton's America

Dolly's Wildflowers: live music from the series

Dolly Parton's America

WNYC Studios & OSM Audio

Music History, Nashville, Music, Tennessee, Society & Culture, Parton, Documentary, America, Dolly

4.617.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Chad, Deli Barnes, America.

0:02.8

So, I did say last week that the next episode would be in two weeks and that is true.

0:09.7

Shimon and I are working on episode seven as we speak, but consider this a bonus because

0:17.8

during the course of producing and recording this series, we collected a lot of music.

0:24.4

A lot of people came in and performed songs for us. Actually, a lot of people we were

0:28.0

interviewing suddenly broke into song and we ended up having a lot of music and we've been

0:33.6

getting a lot of emails saying play more music. Okay, so here we go. In this bonus EP,

0:40.8

I'm going to present to you guys some of the musicians that we encountered, most of whom were

0:46.4

interpreting Deli's music a bit later. I'm going to play you selections from a live event

0:53.2

that I hosted that was loosely inspired by the series and by the music in the series.

0:59.0

But for the moment, I just want to play you some stuff that people have asked for,

1:02.8

starting with, well, you know, last EP we did episode six about Joline.

1:10.0

We featured a guy named Justin Hiltoner playing a song, his song Silver to Exit wasn't his song.

1:15.8

It was an old British ballad that he heard Dolly cover on one of her bluegrass albums that became

1:21.8

very important to him. It's a song called Silver Dagger and he played that. We had a lot of people

1:26.8

asked to hear the whole thing. So here it is. And I'll tell you when he first played this song for

1:30.9

us, it stuck so deep in my head. Maybe we would want to reset for that. Yeah, let's reset for that.

1:35.8

Okay. So you don't have the two mics and everything. Justin was recorded by Tasha Lemley.

1:41.2

All right, here's Silver Dagger.

1:52.7

Don't sing love songs. You'll wake my mother. She's sleeping here right by my side.

2:06.4

In her right hand, here's a Silver Dagger.

2:14.8

She says that I can't be your bride.

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