Listen to the music that matters to Fiddle player Tammy Rogers.
What are you listening to today?
“I tend to listen to a lot of singer/songwriters… people that are, you know, really writing and singing their own material.”
1. Can’t Let Go
by Lucinda Williams
from Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
And growing up?
2. Just Someone I Used to Know
by Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner
from Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner: Duets
Maybelle Carter
3. Wildwood Flower
by The Carter Family
“I had 5 or 6 albums that would just stay in a stack there. And that was Boone Creek…the [J.D. Crowe] 75 album, then I started really wearing out the Bluegrass Album Band stuff, but at the same time I was a huge Emmy Lou Harris fan…and Keith Whitley, I wanted to grow up and marry Keith Whitley.”
And the fiddlers who influenced the way you play today?
“People that I think are really serious fans will remember Scotty [Stoneman], but he doesn’t I don’t think get near the recognition he deserves these days.”
4. Oklahoma Stomp
from Live in L.A. with the Kentucky Colonels
“Kenny Baker, obviously, you know, I wore out that Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe L.P.”
5. Lee Highway Blues
by Stuart Duncan
“I’ve always been a huge fan of his playing and what he’s done in any setting.”
Tammy Rogers plays fiddle and sings with The Steeldrivers, IBMA 2009 Emerging Artist of the Year.
6. Heaven Sent
by The Steeldrivers
