Tribute to Jimmie Rodgers - 1997-09-21 
Severance Hall, Cleveland Ohio USA
Ricky Skaggs - Iris DeMent - John Prine - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Levon Helm - Junior Brown

disc 1
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
 Rocky Road Blues (fragment)
 Ricky Skaggs talks...
 Lonesome River
 Get Up John 
Levon Helm reading Jimmie Rodgers letter
Iris DeMent
 Hobo Bill's Last Ride  
 x-Mama's Opry      
 The Way I Should
 Our Town
x-Levon Helm reading Jimmie Rodgers letter
John Prine
 Lulu Walls
 Treasure Untold
 Lake Marie
 Paradise

disc 2
Levon Helm reading Jimmie Rodgers letter
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
 Jimmie the Kid
 California Blues
 Lonesome Blues-x
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
 Ben Dewberry's Final Run
 My Morphine
 Winter's Come and Gone
Levon Helm
 tuning
 Rag Mama Rag
 Atlantic City
Levon Helm reading Jimmie Rodgers letter
Junior Brown
 Cissy Brown
 Highway Patrol
 My Wife Thinks You're Dead
 Long Walk Back to San Antone
 Venom in Denim
 Women Make a Fool Out of Me

X (beginning or end cut)

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Transfer: Tascam DA20mkII> M-Audio Transit> SoundForge 8.0
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here a couple snippets pulled from the 'net about the show:

"The process of canonization may have reached a pinacle of sorts in September 1997, when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and Case Western Reserve University joined forces in Cleveland to present "Waiting for a Train: Jimmie Rodgers's America," a weekend conference of academics and performing artists... On the final evening a grand concert brought the event to a rousing full-tilt finale, with Ricky Skaggs, Guy Clark, Iris DeMent, Steve Earle, Levon Helm, John Prine, and a dozen others of equal fame and talent performing their favorite Jimmie Rodgers songs."
Preface, "Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler" by Nolan Porterfield

Tribute Concert at Severance Hall

Sunday, September 21

    * Junior Brown
    * Guy Clark
    * Iris DeMent
    * Steve Earle
    * Jimmie Dale Gilmore
    * Levon Helm [inducted 1999]
    * Lynyrd Skynyrd [inducted 2006]
    * John Prine
    * Ricky Skaggs
    * Max Weinberg