There’s a lot of surface noise on this old recording, but the performance still shines. Robert Zimmerman recorded this one one of his long-playing phonograph records as well.

See That My Grave is Kept Clean (MP3)

For you format snobs, you can download it in flactastic FLAC format.

Courtesy of Archive.org

More recent Letterman footage, this time it’s banjo-man Tony Trischka:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jn3KCZEqxc&mode=related&search=

This song is called The Crow, and is from Trischka’s album “Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular“.

Trischka is accompanied here by banjo-diplomat Bela Fleck and funnyman Steve Martin.  Your bonus for reading this far is a classic version of Ramblin’ Guy from The Muppet Show:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi8NW29xCso