On this week’s show, we offer selections from some of the best flatpicking instrumentalists (with one ringer) in acoustic music. We'll hear guitar artistry from Norman Blake, Maybelle Carter, Matt Flinner, Beppe Gambetta, Wayne Henderson, Alison Brown and many more. Plectrum on the six-string … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Episode #20-33: Flatpick Central

Host: Tom Druckenmiller

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

Norman Blake & Rich O'Brien / “Tennessee Wagoner” / Be Ready Bos / Shanachie

The Carter Family / “You Are My Flower” / Country Music Hall of Fame Series / MCA

Don Reno & Red Smiley / “Under the Double Eagle” / Strictly Instrumental / Rural Rhythm

Wayne Henderson / “Snowflake Reel” / Rugby Guitar / Flying Fish

Tyler Grant & Robin Kessinger / “Garfield's March” / Kanawha County Flatpicking / Grant Central

Alison Brown / “One Morning in May” / Stolen Moments / Compass

Beppe Gambetta / “Hide and Seek” / Where the Wind Blows-Dove Tia O Vento / Borealis

Molly Tuttle / “Sit Back and Watch It Roll” / When You're Ready / Compass

Norman Blake & Rich O'Brien / “Flop Eared Mule” / Be Ready Boys / Shanachie

The Andrew Collins Trio / “Cello Song” / Tongue & Groove / Self Produced

Matt Flinner Trio / “Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump” /Traveling Roots / Compass

The Harmonic Tone Revealers / “Half Past Four” / The Harmonic Tone Revealers / Corvus

The Kentucky Colonels / “Lonesome Road Blues” / Long Journey Home / Vanguard

The Kentucky Colonels / “Beaumont Rag” / Long Journey Home / Vanguard

Russ Barenberg / “Little Monk” / When at Last / Compass

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways