The playlist for the evening:

1) From the album Beautiful Dreamer - The Songs of Stephen Foster, Suzy Bogguss’s gorgeous performance of Ah, May the Red Rose Live Always!

2) Michael Brecker’s tour de force version of the standard The Meaning of the Blues from his album Now You See It…Now You Don’t.

3) The criminally under-recognized melodic metal band King’s X, with one of their best slabs of intensity mixed with soulful vocals, Dogman.

4) From the soundtrack of the brilliant Coen Brothers film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Alison Kraus with a ghostly chorus singing the gospel classic Down To The River To Pray.

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