Holler Down the Hollow: A Hardly Strictly Salute to the Masters
2013-10-05
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass #13
Banjo Stage, Hellman Hollow,
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
2:45 PM, Saturday, October 5, 2013

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[2:46 PM they ain't quite ready, announcements at 2:52 PM]

1. [2:53 PM; Bryan Sutton: acoustic guitar, lead vox, Tim O'Brien: mandolin, harmony vox; ABQuintet] Sawing on the Strings (BS)
2. [2:57 PM] Gentle on My Mind (TO)
3. [3:02 PM] Dear Old Dixie
4. [3:06 PM +Laurie Lewis: violin, vox; Tom Rozum: mandocello] My Heart's Own Love (LL)
5. [3:12 PM -LL -TR; +Matt Gibbs: banjo, lead and harmony vox; +Avery Rosen: lead and harmony vox] Big Rock Candy Mountain (MG,AR)
6. [3:17 PM -MG -AR; +Darrell Scott: acoustic guitar, lead vox] I Am a Pilgrim (DS)
7. [3:23 PM -DS; +Jim Lauderdale: acoustic guitar, lead vox; Buddy Miller: guitar, harmony vox] The Race Is On (JL)
8. [3:27 PM] You're Running Wild (BM)
9. [3:29 PM -BM -JL +Jerry Douglas: dobro, vox] Rock Bottom
10. [3:35 PM -AB; +Emmylou Harris: acoustic guitar, vox; Vince Gill: mandolin] Satan's Jewel Crown (EH)
11. [3:42 PM - all but EH + Heidi: violin, h vox;.Colleen: h vox] Your Long Journey (EH)
12. [3:47 PM all off, +AB5, BS, TO, Steve Earle: acoustic guitar, vox; Peter Rowan: acoustic guitar] Freeborn Man (SE)
13. [3:50 PM; -all but PR, BS] Doc Watson Morning (PR)
14. [3:55 PM +TO +AB5 +Vince Gill: mandolin, vox] Mollie & Tenbrooks (VG)
15. [4:00 PM +LL, +TR] Long Journey Home (TO)
    [set ends 4:05 PM, announcements]
    

• Alison Brown: banjo;
• Brian Lawrence: drums;
• Tim O'Brien: acoustic guitar, % violin, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki, mandocello, lead and harmony vox;
• Tyson Rogers: keyboards;
• Christian Sedelmyer: violin;
• Bryan Sutton: acoustic guitar, # banjo.
• Gary West: bass.

• Colleen Browne: harmony vox;
• Heidi Clare: violin, harmony vox;
• Jerry Douglas: resonator guitar, vox;
• Steve Earle: @ acoustic guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Matt Gibbs: banjo, lead and harmony vox;
• Vince Gill: mandolin, lead vox;
• Emmylou Harris: acoustic guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Jim Lauderdale: acoustic guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Laurie Lewis: violin, vox;
• Buddy Miller: guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Avery Rosen: lead and harmony vox;
• Peter Rowan: acoustic guitar, vox;
• Tom Rozum: mandocello;
• Darrell Scott: acoustic guitar, lead vox

First off, major props to sallygr for setlist verification – it eases my mind to know that I've got that information straight!

Saturday afternoon in the park with tens of thousands of friends, listening to master musicians pay tribute to the ancestors. Pretty hard to top that, eh? What with the rotation of players in and out, it's entirely possible that I messed up on a few of the details, but I did my best to keep an eye on the proceedings so as to share this information with the interested reader.

How was it? Why splendid, of course! Just look at that list of songs and performers – how could it be anything less than terrific? Happily, there were no major clusterplucks to derail the jams, and all of the star performers seemed well-prepared for their turn in the spotlight.

My favorites from the set were Darrel Scott's turn on the spiritual, I Am a Pilgrim, Jim Lauderdale's cover of the Race is On (a tribute to George Jones, who passed in April), and Steve Earle's rendition of Freeborn Man (dunno who that was for; the composer, Jimmy Martin – here's an iteration from 2008, passed away in 2005; After some quick research, I'm gonna go with Earl Scruggs, since Jimmy was in the Flatt-Scruggs band for a while, and Earl passed in 2012). Not quite as rocked out as the psychedelic country-tonk Junior Brown version – here's another one from 2008 – but the band today was definitely cooking with white gas on that one!

Interested in checking this set out yourself? You can watch the webcast via the HSB 2013 archive.

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