Live at Merlefest

Live at Merlefest is an album by The Duhks on Festivalink, drawn from their live performance at Merlefest 2007. It's notable for several special guest musicians as well as for being the first published album that features Sarah Dugas as lead singer.

Track listing

1. Intro
2. Gene's Machine(medley) (Traditional arr. by the Duhks)
3. Ol' Cook Pot (Shawn Byrne, Chuck McCarthy)
4. Death Came a Knockin' (Traditional arr. The Duhks)
5. Le Meunier et la Jeune Fille (Traditional arr. The Duhks)
6. Heaven's My Home (Ruby Amanfu, Katie Herzig)
7. Les Blues du Cadien (Traditional arr. The Duhks)
8. Whole Lotta Love (Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant)
9. The Green Fields Of Glentown (Traditional arr. The Duhks)
10. Down To The River (Traditional arr. The Duhks)
11. Jeb's Tune (Jeb Puryear)

Production

• Recorded at Merlefest 2007

Personnel

• Tania Elizabeth - fiddle, vocals
• Sarah Dugas - vocals
• Jordan McConnell - guitar
• Leonard Podolak - banjo
• Scott Senior - percussion

Special Guests

• Casey Driessen - fiddle
• Abigail Washburn - banjo
• John Paul Jones - mandolin
• Maddy Gordon

Notable Performances

Live at Merlefest is the first album that features Sarah Dugas singing lead vocals. Tracks seven and eight are really two parts of a single set combining Les Blues du Cadien with Whole Lotta Love. This is particularly obvious when Sarah cuts back to Les Blues du Cadien right in the middle of Whole Lotta Love (at roughly the point where the free-form section would have appeared in the original Led Zeppelin recording of Whole Lotta Love).

Les Blues du Cadien/Whole Lotta Love features Casey Driessen on fiddle and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin on mandolin.