Track listing

1. "Lakota Dream Song", performed by Earl Bullhead – 3:08
2. "Once More Our God Vouchsafe to Shine", performed by Julie Lee
   Julie Lee
   Julie Lee is a singer/songwriter originally from Maryland now living in Nashville, Tennessee. She is also a member of the band Old Black Kettle, with Sarah Siskind, and has collaborated with Sarah Masen...
   
    – 3:07
3. "Let Us Break Bread Together", performed by The Blind Boys of Alabama
   The Blind Boys of Alabama
   The Blind Boys of Alabama are a gospel group from Alabama that first formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind at Talladega, Alabama in 1939. The three main vocalists of the group and their drummer/percussionist are all blind....
   
    – 3:49
4. "God Save the King
   God Save the Queen
   "God Save the Queen" is an anthem used in a number of Commonwealth realms and British Crown Dependencies. The words of the song, like its title, are adapted to the gender of the current monarch, with "King" replacing "Queen", "he" replacing "she", and so forth, when a king reigns...
   
   ", performed by John Wesley Harding
   John Wesley Harding (singer)
   Wesley Stace is a folk/pop singer-songwriter and author who goes by the stage name John Wesley Harding. He has called his style of music folk noir and gangsta folk...
   
    – 3:49
5. "Young Ladies in Town", performed by Elizabeth Foster – 3:01
6. "The Old Woman Taught Wisdom", performed by Malcom Holcombe – 6:30
7. "The Liberty Song", performed by Ed Pettersen – 4:59
8. "Yankee Doodle
   Yankee Doodle
   "Yankee Doodle" is a well-known Anglo-American song, the origin of which dates back to the Seven Years' War. It is often sung patriotically in the United States today and is the state anthem of Connecticut...
   
   ", performed by Harper Simon
   Harper Simon
   Harper James Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer. He is the son of musician Paul Simon and Paul's first wife, Peggy Harper.-Early life:...
   
    – 3:29
9. "Jefferson & Liberty", performed by The Wilders – 2:10
10. "Hail Columbia
    Hail, Columbia
    "Hail, Columbia" is an American patriotic song. It was considered, with several other songs, one of the unofficial national anthems of the United States until 1931, when "The Star-Spangled Banner" was officially named the national anthem...
    
    ", performed by Steven Kowalczyk-Santoro – 2:56
11. "The Star Spangled Banner
    The Star-Spangled Banner
    "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships...
    
    ", performed by Take 6
    Take 6
    Take 6 is an American a cappella gospel music sextet formed in 1980 on the campus of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. The group sings in a contemporary style, integrating R&B and jazz influences into their devotional songs and has 10 Grammy wins, 10 Dove Awards, one Soul Train Award and two...
    
     – 2:04
12. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
    Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
    "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" is a traditional Negro spiritual.The song dates back to the era of slavery in the United States when it was common practice to sell children of slaves away from their parents. An early performance of the song dates back to the 1870s by the Fisk Jubilee...
    
    ", performed by Beth Nielsen Chapman
    Beth Nielsen Chapman
    Beth Nielsen Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, mostly known for her numerous hits recorded by country and pop music performers.-Early history:...
    
     – 5:09
13. "Peg & Awl", performed by Freedy Johnston
    Freedy Johnston
    Freedy Johnston is a New York City-based singer-songwriter originally from Kinsley, Kansas.Having scored several minor hits since the early 1990s, Johnston's songs are often about troubled loners, and cover topics like heartbreak, alienation and disappointment...
    
     – 4:34
14. "Sweet Betsy From Pike
    Sweet Betsy from Pike
    "Sweet Betsy from Pike" is an American ballad about the trials of a pioneer named Betsy and her lover Ike who migrate from Pike County to California. This Gold Rush-era song, with lyrics written by John A. Stone before 1858, was recorded by Burl Ives on February 11, 1941 for his debut album Okeh...
    
    ", performed by BR549 – 4:23
15. "Trail of Tears", performed by Will & Jehnean – 4:35
16. "Declaration of Sentiments", performed by Minton Sparks/Pat Flynn – 4:34
17. "Go Down Moses
    Go Down Moses
    "Go Down Moses" is an American Negro spiritual. It describes events in the Old Testament of the Bible, specifically Exodus 7:16: "And the Lord spoke unto Moses, go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me", in which God commands Moses to demand...
    
    ", performed by Fisk Jubilee Singers
    Fisk Jubilee Singers
    The Fisk Jubilee Singers are an African-American a cappella ensemble, consisting of students at Fisk University. The first group was organized in 1871 to tour and raise funds for their college. Their early repertoire consisted mostly of traditional spirituals, but included some Stephen Foster songs...
    
     – 3:44
18. "Dixie's Land
    Dixie (song)
    Countless lyrical variants of "Dixie" exist, but the version attributed to Dan Emmett and its variations are the most popular. Emmett's lyrics as they were originally intended reflect the mood of the United States in the late 1850s toward growing abolitionist sentiment. The song presented the point...
    
    ", performed by The Mavericks
    The Mavericks
    The Mavericks is a country music band founded in 1989 in Miami, Florida, United States. Between 1991 and 2003 they recorded six studio albums, in addition to charting 14 singles on the Billboard country charts...
    
    , featuring Thad Cockrell – 6:13

1. "John Brown's Body
   John Brown's Body
   "John Brown's Body" is an American marching song about the abolitionist John Brown. The song was popular in the Union during the American Civil War. The tune arose out of the folk hymn tradition of the American camp meeting movement of the 19th century...
   
   ", performed by Marah – 2:40
2. "Battle Hymn of the Republic
   The Battle Hymn of the Republic
   "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is a hymn by American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song "John Brown's Body". Howe's more famous lyrics were written in November 1861 and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. It became popular during the American Civil War...
   
   ", performed by Joanna Smith – 5:15
3. "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
   Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
   "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" is a popular traditional Irish anti-war and anti-recruiting song. It is generally dated to the early 19th century, when Irish troops served the British East India Company...
   
   ", performed by Janis Ian
   Janis Ian
   Janis Ian is an American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. Ian first entered the folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-sixties; most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century...
   
    – 2:09
4. "Thousands Are Sailing to Amerikay", performed by Tim O'Brien
   Tim O'Brien (musician)
   Tim O'Brien is an American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to singing, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and mandocello...
   
    – 4:24
5. "The Farmer is the Man", performed by Otis Gibbs – 3:03
6. "Home On the Range
   Home on the Range
   "Home on the Range" is the state song of Kansas, U.S.Home on the Range may also refer to:* Home on the Range , a drama directed by Arthur Jacobson* Home on the Range , a Disney animated feature film...
   
   ", performed by Joni Harms
   Joni Harms
   Joni Harms is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1990 and 2004, Harms released four studio albums. She also charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
   
    – 4:30
7. "Stars and Stripes Forever", performed by Jake Shimabukuro
   Jake Shimabukuro
   Jake Shimabukuro is an ukulele virtuoso known for his complex finger work. His music combines elements of jazz and rock.- History :...
   
    – 2:28
8. "Sleep, My Child (Schlof Mayn Kind)", performed by Judith Edelman and Neilson Hubbard
   Neilson Hubbard
   Neilson Hubbard is an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer. His first band was called This Living Hand formed with Clay Jones . They signed to Adam Duritz's label, E Pluribus Unum. After the band split up, Hubbard went on to record three solo albums, The Slide Project, Why Men Fail and...
   
    – 4:47
9. "Over There
   Over There
   "Over There" is a 1917 song popular with United States soldiers in both world wars.It was written by George M. Cohan during World War I. Notable early recordings include versions by Nora Bayes, Enrico Caruso, Billy Murray, and Charles King....
   
   ", performed by Jen Chapin
   Jen Chapin
   Jen Chapin is an American vocalist. She is the daughter of singer-songwriter Harry Chapin and his wife, Sandra Chapin. She also chairs the Board of Directors of World Hunger Year, a charity organization founded by Harry Chapin. She has been compared at times with Laura Nyro, Tori Amos, and Alanis...
   
    – 2:31
10. "How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down On the Farm", performed by Andrew Bird
    Andrew Bird
    Andrew Bird is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.- Early life and the Bowl of Fire :...
    
     – 5:04
11. "Lift Every Voice and Sing", performed by Karen Parks – 5:11
12. "Happy Days Are Here Again
    Happy Days Are Here Again
    "Happy Days Are Here Again" is a song copyrighted in 1929 by Milton Ager and Jack Yellen and published by EMI Robbins Catalog, Inc./Advanced Music Corp...
    
    ", performed by Danielson – 3:05
13. "Brother Can Spare a Dime?
    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
    "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", also sung as "Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?", is one of the best-known American songs of the Great Depression. Written in 1931 by lyricist E. Y. "Yip" Harburg and composer Jay Gorney, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" was part of the 1932 musical New Americana; the...
    
    ", performed by Andy Bey
    Andy Bey
    Andrew W. Bey is a jazz singer and pianist.Bey has a wide vocal range, with his four octave baritone voice.He worked on a television show, Startime, with Connie Francis and sang for Louis Jordan....
    
     – 6:30
14. "Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat
    Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat
    Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat is an American song of the Great Depression, which was published in 1930 by Bob Miller and Emma Dermer. The song details the experiences of a cotton farmer during the Great Depression when the price of cotton fell so low that cotton farming could no longer...
    
    ", performed by Jim Lauderdale
    Jim Lauderdale
    Jim Lauderdale is a musician & singer-songwriter who performs bluegrass and country music. He has recorded since 1986 and has released nineteen studio albums. Artists who have recorded his material include George Strait and Patty Loveless.-Biography:...
    
     – 2:11
15. "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
    Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
    "Deportee " is a protest song with lyrics by Woody Guthrie detailing the January 28, 1948 crash of a plane near Los Gatos Canyon, 20 miles west of Coalinga in Fresno County, California, United States. The crash occurred in Los Gatos Canyon and not in the town of Los Gatos itself, which is in Santa...
    
    ", performed by Old Crow Medicine Show
    Old Crow Medicine Show
    Old Crow Medicine Show is an old-time string band based in Nashville, Tennessee. Their music has been called bluegrass, Americana, and alt-country, in addition to old-time. Along with original songs, the band performs many pre-World War II blues and folk songs...
    
     – 4:56
16. "Rosie the Riveter
    Rosie the Riveter
    Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military...
    
    ", performed by Suzy Bogguss
    Suzy Bogguss
    Susan Kay "Suzy" Bogguss is an American country music singer. In the 1980s and 90s she released one platinum and three gold albums and charted six top ten singles, winning the Academy of Country Music's award for Top New Female Vocalist and the Country Music Association's Horizon Award.After...
    
     – 2:31
17. "Reuben James
    Reuben James (Woody Guthrie song)
    “Reuben James” is a song by Woody Guthrie about the sinking of the U.S. convoy escort, the Reuben James, which was the first U.S. naval ship sunk by German U-boats in World War II. Woody Guthrie had started to write a song including each name on the casualty list of the sinking...
    
    ", performed by Folk Family Robinson
    The Black Crowes
    The Black Crowes are an American rock band formed in 1989. Their discography includes nine studio albums, four live albums and several charting singles. The band was signed to Def American Recordings in 1989 by producer George Drakoulias and released their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker, the...
    
     – 4:04

1. "The Great Atomic Power", performed by Elizabeth Cook
   Elizabeth Cook
   Elizabeth Cook is an American country music singer who made her debut on the Grand Ole Opry on March 17, 2000. She has released five albums to date. Balls was produced by Rodney Crowell, and nine of the album's 11 tracks were written or co-written by Elizabeth – including the single "Sometimes It...
   
    and The Grascals – 2:45
2. "Little Boxes
   Little Boxes
   "Little Boxes" is a song written by Malvina Reynolds in 1962, which became a hit for her friend Pete Seeger in 1963.The song is a political satire about the development of suburbia and associated conformist middle-class attitudes...
   
   ", performed by Devendra Banhart
   Devendra Banhart
   Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...
   
    – 4:08
3. "The Times They Are a-Changin'
   The Times They Are a-Changin'
   The Times They Are a-Changin opens with the title track, one of Dylan's most famous songs. Dylan's friend, Tony Glover, recalls visiting Dylan's apartment in September 1963, where he saw a number of song manuscripts and poems lying on a table. "The Times They Are a-Changin'" had yet to be recorded,...
   
   ", performed by The Del McCoury Band
   Del McCoury Band
   The Del McCoury Band is a bluegrass band. Originally Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals with Del on guitar and his brother Jerry on bass, the band went through a number of changes until the 1980s when the band solidified its line-up, adding McCoury's sons, Ronnie and Robbie on mandolin and banjo,...
   
    – 3:49
4. "Apache Tears", performed by Scott Kempner
   Scott Kempner
   Scott "Top Ten" Kempner is the rhythm guitarist with The Dictators since they formed in 1974. He is also a founding member of The Del-Lords....
   
    – 3:42
5. "Get Together", performed by Kim Richey
   Kim Richey
   Kimberly Kay "Kim" Richey is an American singer/songwriter. Though her work fits into the general country music category, her sound is not easily categorized. Her songs have been hits on both the country and pop charts...
   
    – 4:01
6. "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud
   Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud
   "Say It Loud — I'm Black and I'm Proud" is a funk song written and recorded by James Brown in 1968. It is notable both as one of Brown's signature songs and as one of the most popular Black Power anthems of the 1960s. The song was released as a two-part single which held the number-one spot on the...
   
   ", performed by The Dynamites with Charles Walker – 4:32
7. "Ohio", performed by Ben Taylor
   Ben Taylor (musician)
   Benjamin Taylor is a musician and actor. He is the son of folk rock artists James Taylor and Carly Simon. His sister, Sally Taylor, is also a musician. Ben Taylor bears a striking resemblance to his famous father and has a singing voice akin to him as well...
   
    – 2:40
8. "What's Going On?
   What's Going On?
   What's Going On? was a short-lived television game show that aired for five weeks beginning on November 28, 1954. The show aired on ABC and was a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production. It was sponsored by Revlon, and originated live from New York City....
   
   ", performed by Anthony David – 5:02
9. "I Am Woman
   I Am Woman
   "I Am Woman" is a song cowritten by Helen Reddy and singer/songwriter/guitarist Ray Burton and performed by Reddy. Released in its most well-known version in 1970, the song became an enduring anthem for the women’s liberation movement.-Success:...
   
   ", performed by Martha Wainwright
   Martha Wainwright
   Martha Wainwright is a Canadian-American folk-rock singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of American folk singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle...
   
    – 3:27
10. "Youngstown
    Youngstown (song)
    "Youngstown" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad. Although many of the songs on the album were performed by Springsteen solo, the lineup for the "Youngstown" includes Soozie Tyrell on violin, Jim Hanson on bass, Gary Mallaber on drums, co-producer Chuck Plotkin...
    
    ", performed by Matthew Ryan – 4:14
11. "Wave," performed by Gary Heffern and Chris Eckman – 4:35
12. "The Message", performed by Shortee – 6:34
13. "Streets of Philadelphia
    Streets of Philadelphia
    "Streets of Philadelphia" is an Oscar winning song, written and performed by American rock musician Bruce Springsteen for the first mainstream film on HIV/AIDS in the 1993 film, Philadelphia...
    
    ", performed by Bettye LaVette
    Bettye LaVette
    Bettye LaVette is an American soul singer-songwriter who made her first record at sixteen, but achieved only intermittent fame until 2005, with her album, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise...
    
     – 3:49
14. "Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning
    Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)
    "Where Were You " is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music artist Alan Jackson. Written in the wake of the September 11 attacks, it was introduced at the Country Music Association's annual awards show on November 7, 2001...
    
    ", performed by The Wrights
    The Wrights
    The Wrights were a one-off Australian rock music "supergroup". They consisted of Nic Cester , Bernard Fanning , Phil Jamieson , Kram , Chris Cheney , Davey Lane and Pat Bourke...
    
     – 5:30
15. "This Land is Your Land
    This Land Is Your Land
    "This Land Is Your Land" is one of the United States' most famous folk songs. Its lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie in 1940 based on an existing melody, in response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America", which Guthrie considered unrealistic and complacent. Tired of hearing Kate Smith sing it on...
    
    ", performed by John Mellencamp
    John Mellencamp
    John Mellencamp, previously known by the stage names Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American rock singer-songwriter, musician, painter and occasional actor known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock that eschews synthesizers and other artificial sounds...
    
     – 4:10

Personnel

• Peter Abbott – Percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  , backing vocalist
  Backing vocalist
  A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
  
  
• Brad Albetta – producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  , instrumentation
• Jack Ashford – vibraphone
  Vibraphone
  The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....
  
  
• Bob Babbitt – bass
• Mike Bailey – drums
• Devendra Banhart
  Devendra Banhart
  Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...
  
   – acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
  
  , vocals
• Kevin Barker – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  
• Will Barrow – piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  
• Alan Bartram – bass
• Tom Bee
  Tom Bee
  Tom Bee is the CEO and Founder of , the first Native American owned record label.Adopted at birth, Tom Bee was born and raised in the reservation border town of Gallup, New Mexico...
  
   – producer
• Andy Bey
  Andy Bey
  Andrew W. Bey is a jazz singer and pianist.Bey has a wide vocal range, with his four octave baritone voice.He worked on a television show, Startime, with Connie Francis and sang for Louis Jordan....
  
   – piano, vocals
• David Bielanko – arranger
  Arrangement
  The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
  
  
• Serge Bielanko – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , arranger, backing vocalist
• Andrew Bird
  Andrew Bird
  Andrew Bird is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.- Early life and the Bowl of Fire :...
  
   – violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  , arranger, electric guitar, vocals, whistle (human)
  Whistling
  Human whistling is the production of sound by means of carefully controlling a stream of air flowing through a small hole. Whistling can be achieved by creating a small opening with one's lips and then blowing or sucking air through the hole...
  
  
• Leo Black – guitar, arranger, producer, horn arrangements
• Suzy Bogguss
  Suzy Bogguss
  Susan Kay "Suzy" Bogguss is an American country music singer. In the 1980s and 90s she released one platinum and three gold albums and charted six top ten singles, winning the Academy of Country Music's award for Top New Female Vocalist and the Country Music Association's Horizon Award.After...
  
   – vocals
• Jimmy Bowland – horn, saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  
• BR549 – arranger
• Earl Bullhead – arranger, vocals
• Andy Cabic
  Andy Cabic
  Andy Cabic is a folk rock singer-songwriter, and lead member of the band Vetiver.He was born in Virginia and attended school at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where he played in a band called The Raymond Brake...
  
   – backing vocalist
• Jason Carter – fiddle
  Fiddle
  The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
  
  
• Vincent Chancey
  Vincent Chancey
  Vincent Chancey is an American jazz hornist.Chancey, a French horn player, attended the Southern Illinois University School of Music and then studied under Julius Watkins in New York City...
  
   – French horn
  Horn (instrument)
  The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....
  
  
• Jen Chapin
  Jen Chapin
  Jen Chapin is an American vocalist. She is the daughter of singer-songwriter Harry Chapin and his wife, Sandra Chapin. She also chairs the Board of Directors of World Hunger Year, a charity organization founded by Harry Chapin. She has been compared at times with Laura Nyro, Tori Amos, and Alanis...
  
   – vocals, producer
• Beth Nielsen Chapman
  Beth Nielsen Chapman
  Beth Nielsen Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, mostly known for her numerous hits recorded by country and pop music performers.-Early history:...
  
   – arranger, vocals, producer, gut string guitar
  Classical guitar
  The classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones...
  
  , bazouki
  Bouzouki
  The bouzouki , is a musical instrument with Greek origin in the lute family. A mainstay of modern Greek music, the front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but...
  
  
• Ernest Chapman – steel guitar
  Steel guitar
  Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...
  
  , backing vocalist
• Alvin Chea
  Alvin Chea
  Alvin "Vinnie" Chea was born in 1967 and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. A product of Christian Education, Chea attended Seventh-day Adventist schools up through 1989 where Mr. Chea earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Oakwood University, double-majoring in English and Communications...
  
   – vocals
• Larry Ciancia – drums
• Vinnie Ciesielski – horn
• Thad Cockrell – arranger, vocals
• Elizabeth Cook
  Elizabeth Cook
  Elizabeth Cook is an American country music singer who made her debut on the Grand Ole Opry on March 17, 2000. She has released five albums to date. Balls was produced by Rodney Crowell, and nine of the album's 11 tracks were written or co-written by Elizabeth – including the single "Sometimes It...
  
   – vocals, producer
• Stephan Crump – bass, producer
• Anthony David – acoustic guitar, vocals, backing vocalist
• Scott Davis – assistant engineer
  Audio engineering
  An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
  
  
• Mickey Dawes – drums
• Paul Deakin – arranger, drums
• Cedric Dent – vocals
• Tyrone Dickerson – organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  
• Chris Eckman – producer, engineer, performer, choir
  Choir
  A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
  
   arrangement
• Judith Edelman – acoustic guitar, arranger, vocals
• Terry Eldredge – acoustic guitar, vocals
• Betse Ellis – fiddle, arranger, producer
• Rich Feaster – engineer, mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
  In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
  
  
• Curtis Fields – tenor
  Tenor
  The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
  
   (vocal)
• Pat Flynn – guitar, arranger
• Elizabeth Foster – arranger
• Brian Fulk – engineer
• Critter Fuqua – vocals, button accordion
  Button accordion
  A button accordion is a type of accordion on which the melody-side keyboard consists of a series of buttons rather than piano-style keys. There exists a wide variation in keyboard systems, tuning, action and construction of these instruments...
  
  
• Noah Georgeson
  Noah Georgeson
  Noah Georgeson is a musician, producer, and solo recording artist. Georgeson's debut album Find Shelter was released through Plain Recordings on November 28, 2006. He is credited as having "written, scored, arranged, recorded, and produced" the entirety of Find Shelter, according to a press...
  
   – backing vocalist
• Otis Gibbs – acoustic guitar, arranger, vocals
• Steve Gluzband – trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  
• Janja Gomboc – choir, chorus
• Ranger Doug Green – vocals
• Ed Greene – percussion, drums
• Paul Hammond – mastering
  Audio mastering
  Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
  
  
• John Wesley Harding
  John Wesley Harding (singer)
  Wesley Stace is a folk/pop singer-songwriter and author who goes by the stage name John Wesley Harding. He has called his style of music folk noir and gangsta folk...
  
   – arranger, vocals
• Joni Harms
  Joni Harms
  Joni Harms is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1990 and 2004, Harms released four studio albums. She also charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
  
   – arranger, vocals
• Otto Hauser – drums, backing vocalist
• David R. Hayden – tenor (vocal)
• Kevin Hayes – guitjo
• Gary Heffern – vocals, assistant project coordinator
• Don Herron – banjo
  Banjo
  In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
  
  , fiddle, mandolin
  Mandolin
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
  
  , backing vocalist
• Donnie Herron – fiddle
• Alan Hill – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  
• Will Hill – Native American flute
  Native American flute
  The Native American flute has achieved some measure of fame for its distinctive sound, used in a variety of New Age and world music recordings. The instrument was originally very personal; its music was played without accompaniment in courtship, healing, meditation, and spiritual rituals. Now it...
  
  , cultural advisor, language consultant, spoken word
  Spoken word
  Spoken word is a form of poetry that often uses alliterated prose or verse and occasionally uses metered verse to express social commentary. Traditionally it is in the first person, is from the poet’s point of view and is themed in current events....
  
  
• Malcolm Holcombe – acoustic guitar, vocals
• Ericson Holt – keyboards
• Neilson Hubbard
  Neilson Hubbard
  Neilson Hubbard is an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer. His first band was called This Living Hand formed with Clay Jones . They signed to Adam Duritz's label, E Pluribus Unum. After the band split up, Hubbard went on to record three solo albums, The Slide Project, Why Men Fail and...
  
   – bass, arranger, glockenspiel
  Glockenspiel
  A glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, and making it a metallophone...
  
  , keyboards, backing vocalist, producer
• Scotty Huff – acoustic guitar
• Carter William Humphrey – engineer
• David Hungate – bass
• Andy Hunt – backing vocalist, mixing, Ngawang Chopel
• Shirley Hutchins – administration
• Kenny Hutson – guitar, mandolin
• Janis Ian
  Janis Ian
  Janis Ian is an American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. Ian first entered the folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-sixties; most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century...
  
   – arranger, vocals, producer
• Jack Irwin – engineer
• Morgan Jahnig – bass (upright)
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• Erick Jaskowiak – engineer
• Freedy Johnston
  Freedy Johnston
  Freedy Johnston is a New York City-based singer-songwriter originally from Kinsley, Kansas.Having scored several minor hits since the early 1990s, Johnston's songs are often about troubled loners, and cover topics like heartbreak, alienation and disappointment...
  
   – guitar, arranger, vocals, backing vocalist
• Herb Jordan – producer
• Nick Kane – electric guitar
• Scott Kempner
  Scott Kempner
  Scott "Top Ten" Kempner is the rhythm guitarist with The Dictators since they formed in 1974. He is also a founding member of The Del-Lords....
  
   – bass, guitar, vocals
• Joel Kibble – vocals
• Mark Kibble – vocals, engineer
• Craig King – piano, arranger
• Jason Kourkounis – arranger, drums

• Dave Kowalski – engineer
• Viktor Krauss – bass
• Paul T. Kwami – musical direction
  Music director
  A music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...
  
  
• Jim Lauderdale
  Jim Lauderdale
  Jim Lauderdale is a musician & singer-songwriter who performs bluegrass and country music. He has recorded since 1986 and has released nineteen studio albums. Artists who have recorded his material include George Strait and Patty Loveless.-Biography:...
  
   – banjo, vocals
• Bettye LaVette
  Bettye LaVette
  Bettye LaVette is an American soul singer-songwriter who made her first record at sixteen, but achieved only intermittent fame until 2005, with her album, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise...
  
   – vocals
• Julie Lee
  Julie Lee
  Julie Lee is a singer/songwriter originally from Maryland now living in Nashville, Tennessee. She is also a member of the band Old Black Kettle, with Sarah Siskind, and has collaborated with Sarah Masen...
  
   – vocals, baritone ukulele
  Ukulele
  The ukulele, ; from ; it is a subset of the guitar family of instruments, generally with four nylon or gut strings or four courses of strings....
  
  
• David Leonard – mixing
• Kimberly Levitan – design
• David Macias – compilation producer
• Paul Mahern – engineer
• Joe Martino – assistant engineer
• Catherine Styron Marx – keyboards
• Rogers Masson
  Rogers Masson
  Rogers Masson is an American record producer, engineer, mixer, and songwriter. Masson is known for his ability to work seamlessly within different genres of music, and for his innovative approaches to recording. He has produced and mixed albums for artists such as Day of Fire, Vintage Trouble,...
  
   – mixing
• Jimmy Mattingly – fiddle
• Josiah Mazzaschi – engineer
• Mac McAnally
  Mac McAnally
  Lyman Corbitt "Mac" McAnally, Jr. is an American country music singer-songwriter, session musician and record producer. In his career, he has recorded ten studio albums and eight singles. Two of his singles were hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and six more on the Hot Country Songs charts...
  
   – producer
• Del McCoury
  Del McCoury
  Delano Floyd McCoury is an American bluegrass musician. As leader of the Del McCoury Band, he plays guitar and sings lead vocals along with his two sons, Ronnie McCoury and Rob McCoury, who play mandolin and banjo respectively...
  
   – guitar, vocals, producer
• Rob McCoury – banjo
• Ronnie McCoury
  Ronnie McCoury
  Ronnie McCoury is a mandolin player, singer, and songwriter born in 1967. He is the son of bluegrass musician Del McCoury, and is best known for his work with the Del McCoury Band. He has also recorded several solo albums....
  
   – mandolin, producer
• Country Joe McDonald
  Country Joe McDonald
  Country Joe McDonald is an American musician who was the lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe and the Fish.-Personal life:...
  
   – vocals, penny whistle
  Tin whistle
  The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, English Flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, Tin Flageolet, Irish whistle and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is an end blown fipple flute, putting it in the same category as the recorder, American Indian flute, and...
  
  
• Jerry Dale McFadden – keyboards
• Claude V. McKnight III
  Claude V. McKnight III
  Claude V. McKnight, III is a Jazz, R&B, and Gospel Music Singer, as well as the founding member of the award-winning a cappella performing group Take 6....
  
   – vocals
• Eamon McLoughlin – strings
• Chuck Mead – guitar, vocals
• John Mellencamp
  John Mellencamp
  John Mellencamp, previously known by the stage names Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American rock singer-songwriter, musician, painter and occasional actor known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock that eschews synthesizers and other artificial sounds...
  
   – guitar, vocals, producer
• Mark "Guitar" Miller – bass
• Rob Mitchell – drums
• John Mock – tin whistle
  Tin whistle
  The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, English Flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, Tin Flageolet, Irish whistle and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is an end blown fipple flute, putting it in the same category as the recorder, American Indian flute, and...
  
  
• Patrick Murphy – engineer
• Tim O'Brien
  Tim O'Brien (musician)
  Tim O'Brien is an American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to singing, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and mandocello...
  
   – fiddle, guitar, arranger, vocals
• Bob Olhsson – engineer, mastering, mixing, compilation producer
• Karen Parks – vocals
• Chris "Chris P" "PowerTool" Patterson – percussion
• Marcelo Pennell – engineer, mixing
• Dave Peterson – drums
• Ed Pettersen – bass, guitar, percussion, piano, arranger, keyboards, theremin
  Theremin
  The theremin , originally known as the aetherphone/etherophone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible physical contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device...
  
  , vocals, backing vocalist, producer, engineer, liner notes
  Liner notes
  Liner notes are the writings found in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.-Origin:...
  
  , mixing, compilation producer
• Walker Pettibone – drums
• Dirk Powell – engineer
• Valerie Pringle – backing vocalist
• Jonathan Quarmby
  Jonathan Quarmby
  Jonathan Quarmby is a British record producer best known for his work with fellow brit Kevin Bacon under the moniker 'Bacon & Quarmby'.-Production:*The Longpigs - The Sun Is Often Out *The Longpigs - Mobile Home...
  
   – Hammond organ
  Hammond organ
  The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...
  
  , producer, mixing
• Lorne Rall – bass
• Andy Reis – guitar, electric guitar
• Robert Reynolds – bass, arranger
• Kim Richey
  Kim Richey
  Kimberly Kay "Kim" Richey is an American singer/songwriter. Though her work fits into the general country music category, her sound is not easily categorized. Her songs have been hits on both the country and pop charts...
  
   – acoustic guitar, vocals, backing vocalist
• Peter Robbins – engineer, mixing
• Todd Robbins – engineer, mixing
• Danny Roberts – mandolin
• Rich Robinson – guitar, vocals
• Stan Robinson – vocals
• Marcus Rojas – tuba
  Tuba
  The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
  
  
• Michael Rubin – producer
• Matthew Ryan – keyboards, vocals
• Aaron Sands – bass
• Pat Sansone
  Pat Sansone
  Pat Sansone is a multi-instrumentalist in the rock bands Wilco and The Autumn Defense.Sansone was born in Meridian, Mississippi...
  
   – acoustic guitar, piano, engineer
• Tamara Saviano – project manager
• David Saw – guitar
• Ketcham Secor – vocals, bajo sexto
  Bajo sexto
  A bajo sexto is a musical instrument with 12 strings in 6 double courses, used in Mexican music. It is used primarily in norteño music of northern Mexico and across the border in the music of south Texas known as "Tex-Mex", "conjunto, or "música mexicana-tejana".A similar instrument with five...
  
  
• Danny Seward – backing vocalist
• Ike Sheldon – guitar
• Jake Shimabukuro
  Jake Shimabukuro
  Jake Shimabukuro is an ukulele virtuoso known for his complex finger work. His music combines elements of jazz and rock.- History :...
  
   – arranger, ukulele
• Scott Shipley – multiple instruments
• Harper Simon
  Harper Simon
  Harper James Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer. He is the son of musician Paul Simon and Paul's first wife, Peggy Harper.-Early life:...
  
   – bass, guitar, arranger, vocals, producer
• Paul Sinclair – mastering
• Elin K. Smith – vocals
• Mindy Smith – backing vocalist
• Minton Sparks – arranger, vocals
• Garrison Starr
  Garrison Starr
  Garrison Starr is a singer-songwriter who originally hails from Hernando, Mississippi, a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. As a solo artist, she has recorded seven full-length albums, as well as two EPs and one live album...
  
   – backing vocalist
• David Talbot – banjo
• Christopher Thomas – bass
• David Thomas – vocals
• Wesley Trigg – tenor (vocal)
• Ted Velykis – arranger, bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Wanda Vick – banjo, fiddle, mandolin
• Philip Wade – mandolin
• Martha Wainwright
  Martha Wainwright
  Martha Wainwright is a Canadian-American folk-rock singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of American folk singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle...
  
  – vocals, backing vocalist
• Charles E. Walker – vocals
• M. Warren – arranger
• Willie Watson – guitar, vocals
• Kenzie Wetz – fiddle, vocals, backing vocalist
• Willy Will – producer, engineer
• Mark Wilson IV – bass
• Adam Wright – guitar, vocals
• Kirk Yoquelet – percussion, drums
• Kate York – backing vocalist