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LISTEN: Catherine Russell’s Cover Of ‘New Speedway Boogie’ Is Our Song of the Week
This cover special features performances by The Band, Catherine Russell, Jimmy LaFave, Brandi Carlile and more.Various Mountain Stage Photographers
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Our Song of the Week comes from this week’s special cover songs edition of Mountain Stage with Larry Groce.
This performance by jazz and blues vocalist Catherine Russell comes from a 2006 Mountain Stage show where she put her special touch on “New Speedway Boogie,” a song written by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia, first popularized by The Grateful Dead.
This song comes from a set of Hunter/Garcia compositions included in this week’s special episode of Mountain Stage featuring various artists covering some of music’s most highly regarded songwriters.
You’ll also hear songs by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen and, of course, The Beatles, covered by artists like The Band, Joan Osborne, Judith Owen, The Derek Trucks Band, Brandi Carlile, Jimmy LaFave, Chris Smither and more. Check out the playlist here.
On this week's premiere broadcast of Mountain Stage, we welcome southern rock royalty, the Drive-By Truckers back to the Mountain Stage for their fifth appearance. Guest host Larry Groce also welcomes West Virginia country rocker and songwriter Charles Wesley Godwin, singer songwriter Eilen Jewell, Afrofuturist folk artist Jake Blount with percussive dancer Nic Gareiss, and contemporary folk musician Tomberlin.
Amy Ray returns to Mountain Stage on this week’s premier broadcast with her band, along with The Lone Bellow, Alison Brown, Tony Furtado, and Villages. This episode was recorded at the People's Bank Theatre in Marietta, Ohio with guest host Larry Groce.
The new fall season of Mountain Stage begins this Friday with the premiere broadcast of episode 1,013. Guest host Larry Groce welcomes Wilco back to the show for their fourth appearance, along with blues guitarist Guy Davis, singer-songwriter Peter Case, and Grammy Nominated songwriter and producer Garrison Starr to perform at the Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium in Athens, OH.
This week’s encore broadcast of Mountain Stage was recorded in Boston, Massachusetts when we were invited by the Celebrity Series of Boston at the Berklee Performance Center, with thanks to our affiliate WUMB.