Tribute Albums to Kate

Kate’s songs comprise most of the tracks on these albums.

Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf - 1998

A Tribute Album Produced by Kate's long-time accompanist, Nina Gerber, for Red House Records.

Before she died of leukemia in 1986 at the young age of 44, singer and songwriter Kate Wolf had criss-crossed North America for fifteen years performing some of the most remarkable songs of the era.   With roots in the golden hills, valleys and seashores of Northern California, her songs are still vibrant and healing...simple yet profound.  On this new recording, fourteen artists and admirers pay tribute to Kate and her music. Emmylou Harris' rendition of Kate's Love Still Remains received a 1999 Grammy Nomination for Female Country Vocal Performance.

Songs & Artists

Give Yourself To Love   Kathy Mattea
These Times We’re Living In   Dave Alvin
Friend Of Mine   Nanci Griffith
Sweet Love   John Gorka
Here In California   Lucinda Williams
Like A River   Peter Rowan
Carolina Pines   Cris Williamson & Tret Fure
See Here, She Said   Utah Phillips
In China Or A Woman’s Heart   Rosalie Sorrels
Tequila And Me   Greg Brown & Ferron
Back Roads (instrumental)   Nina Gerber
Cornflower Blue   Eric Bogle
Love Still Remains   Emmylou Harris
Thinking About You   Terry Garthwaite

All songs written by Kate Wolf except Friend Of Mine: words by Kate Wolf; music by Kate Wolf, Nina Gerber, and Ford James.  Published by Another Sundown Publishing Co. (BMI).

A Kate Wolf Retrospective – 1996

Recorded live at the first Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival in 1996 in Sebastopol, California. Featuring 15 songs performed by Kate's musical friends.

Artists Who Recorded Individual Kate Songs

Many many people have have helped preserve Kate's memory and music by recording her songs.   The list below is a short representation.  If you know of more, please drop us a line.

Dave Alvin recorded Kate’s Here In California on his album West Of The West.

Anderson-Gram recorded Kate's Across The Great Divide on their album Cover to Cover, Give Yourself To Love on their album Where It All Begins and These Times We're Living In on their album Watercolors.

Auldridge-Bennett-Gaudreau recorded Kate's Across The Great Divide on their 1999 album This Old Town.

Lisa Bastoni recorded Kate’s Across The Great Divide and created a wonderful video from her paintings that illustrate the lyrics.

Richard Bennett recorded Kate's Across The Great Divide on his 2014 album In The Wind Somewhere.

Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin recorded Kate's Across The Great Divide on their 2021 album Desert Heart Mountain Soul

Greg Brown recorded Tequila & Me on his album In The Hills Of California - Live From The Kate Wolf Music Festival 1997-2003, a 2-disc compilation of Greg's best performances from the beloved Kate Wolf Music Festival, dating back to his first appearance in 1997. It also includes a song Greg wrote for Kate: Kate’s Guitar.

Bunny Sings Wolf recorded Back Roads on her album Sacred Ground; The Lilac The Apple, Eyes of a Painter, and Old Jerome on her album Buffalo Tales; and These Times We're Living In and Give Yourself to Love on her album White Haired Sunrise.

Sharon Burch recorded Brother Warrior on her album Touch The Sweet Earth.

Karl Burke recorded Across The Great Divide on his album Heart’s Prism.

Raymond Byron & the White Freighter covered Kate’s song You’re Not Standing Like You Used To on their 2012 album Little Death Shaker.

'Gaelic Americana' singer Kyle Carey covered Kate's song Across the Great Divide which is on her 2014 album North Star.

Shawna Carol recorded Kate’s Give Yourself To Love on her 2007 album Vows: a Songwriters Sketchbook.

Kathy Chiavola recorded Across the Great Divide on her 2005 album From Where I Stand.

Clay County recorded Tequila and Me on their album Home Is A Place In The Mind.

The Cache Valley Drifters recorded Green Eyes on their 1996 album White Room and Eyes Of A Painter on their 1999 album Mightyfine.net.

Cyrus Clarke recorded Kate's song Safe At Anchor on his 2000 album California Stories and her song Across The Great Divide on his 2005 album Calsong.

Beccy Cole recorded Across The Great Divide on her 2010 album Preloved.

Terrence James Coffman recorded Across The Great Divide and Here in California on his 2007 album Goodnight Betoe, and he recorded Give Yourself To Love on his 2009 album Live At the Coffee House

Cathy Cowette recorded Across The Great Divide on her album Song’s for a Winter’s Night.

Daring and Stahl recorded Across the Great Divide on their 2015 album “40”.

Dakota Blonde covered Kate's song Across The Great Divide on their album Something Simple in 2000.

Jo D’Anna recorded Kate’s previously unrecorded song San Geronimo Valley on her 2018 album Two Roads.

Ross Davis recorded Across The Great Divide on his 2023 album This Town.

Farmstrong recorded Carolina Pines on their album Don't Go Down That Road and Across The Great Divide on their album Forever in 2017.

Steve Fisher recorded Streets of Calgary on his 2007 album River.

Rick Fitzgerald, Maggie Dodd and Michael Poole recorded Rising Of The Moon on their 2019 album Chasing Sunshine.

Four Shillings Short recorded Medicine Wheel on their album Icons And Imagery.

Robert Gass & On Wings Of Song recorded Kate’s song Medicine Wheel on their 1996 album Medicine Wheel.

Nina Gerber, Kate's longtime accompanist, released Good Music With Good People, an album of live performances from the Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival. Nina accompanies ten different artists, including Solid Air performing Fly Away, John Gorka playing Sweet Love, as well as Paul Kamm and Eleanore MacDonald singing Unfinished Life.

Eve Goldberg recorded Traveling Day (Jack W. Aldrich: Lyrics; Kate Wolf: Music) on her album Ever Brightening Day.

Lorin Grean recorded Brother Warrior on her album The Call.

Nanci Griffith recorded Across The Great Divide on her album Other Voices/Other Rooms. When performing her "Other Voices, Other Rooms" show, Nanci said, "This show to me is dedicated to the memory of the wonderful folk songwriter by the name of Kate Wolf whose song inspired my entire Other Voices, Other Rooms album - Kate Wolf's Across the Great Divide."

Emmylou Harris included her recording of Love Still Remains (from the tribute album Treasures Left Behind) on her 2007 collection Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems.

Caroline Herring recorded Here In California on her 2009 EP Silver Apples Of The Moon.

Carolyn Hester recorded Brother Warrior on her album We Dream Forever.

Amy Hindman recorded Give Yourself To Love on her album Beyond The Edge.

Josephine County recorded Carolina Pines on their album East To The West in 2018.

Barbara Jo Kammer recorded Medicine Wheel on her album One Song At A Time in 2017.

Ken & Brad Kolodner recorded Across The Great Divide on their album Stony Run.

Laurie Lewis recorded Unfinished Life on her album Blossoms in 2010.

Rick & Lorraine Lee recorded Sweet Love and 4th Rate Romance on their album Contrasts.

The Mill Run Dulcimer Band recorded In China or a Woman’s Heart on their album Roses and Memories.

Misty River recorded Green Eyes on their album Willow.

Molasses Creek recorded Give Yourself To Love on their 1996 album Citibound.

MrJordanMrTonks recorded Across The Great Divide on their albums Two in 2018 and Troubles in 2019.

Nedra & Julio recorded Across The Great Divide on their album Livin’ My Life Now.

Susan Nikas recorded In China Or A Woman's Heart on her albums Stories in 2017 and Homespun in 2018.

Michael Nold recorded Across The Great Divide, which appears on the folk songwriters tribute collection True Voices.

Shaina Noll recorded Brother Warrior on her 1995 album Bread For The Journey.

Erica Opizzi recorded Across The Great Divide on her aptly named album Wildwood Flowers.

Peter, Paul and Mary recorded Kate’s song Give Yourself To Love on their album Discovered: Live in Concert.

Bill Phillips recorded Kate’s The Lilac & The Apple on his 2007 album Hear The Mountains Cry.

The Real Sarahs and Alex de Grassi recorded Kate’s song Across The Great Divide on their 2024 album Everything’s Changed.

Pauline Reese records Kate’s Green Eyes on her 2002 album Trail To Monterrey.

Tom Rigney recorded Kate's Brother Warrior on his 2002 Metamorphosis album, accompanied by Nina Gerber. He also dedicated his first solo album, Rigo, to Kate.

Lavinia Ross recorded Kate's songs Cornflower Blue, Back Roads and Two-Way Waltz on her album Keepsake. It also includes George Schroder's The Redtail Hawk, a staple at Kate Wolf concerts.

The Phil Salazar Band recorded Kate’s song Like A River on their album The Phil Salazar Band in 1989. The album also included a song that Kate recorded as well: Legend In His Time, written by Cyrus Clarke and David West.

Dan Schatz recorded Brother Warrior on his album The Song And The Sigh.

Moira Smiley & VOCO recorded Kate's song Carolina Pines on their album Circle, Square, Diamond & Flag.

Frank Solivan recorded Kate’s song Across the Great Divide for the album Putamayo Presents: Bluegrass.

Rosalie Sorrels - Kate’s longtime friend - In China, or a Woman’s Heart on her 1991 album Report from Grimes Creek

Soulgrass recorded Kate’s song Across the Great Divide for their album Nobody Knows.

Spence School Select Choir & Evan Wels recorded Kate's song Carolina Pines on their album Red Rocking Chair.

Square Thirteen recorded Kate's Across The Great Divide on their 2015 album The Great Divide.

Linda Stoffel recorded Kate's songs The Lilac and The Apple and Across The Great Divide on her 2012 album Songbird.

Zephaniah Stringfield recorded Streets Of Calgary on his album Stick To Nowhere in 2019.

Daphne Tse & The Kaua'i Ohana Band recorded Kate’s Give Yourself To Love on her album Finding Water.

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway recorded Kate’s Here In California on their EP Into The Wild.

Uncle Ephus recorded Across The Great Divide on their album Cook’n Something Up.

WayStation recorded Like A River on their album Looking For Love.

Chris Webster & Nina Gerber recorded Kate's Lay Me Down Easy on their album Apple Blossom Lane.

Christopher Westfall recorded Give Yourself To Love on his album Kindred Spirits.

Wingin' It recorded Brother Warrior and Give Yourself To Love on their 2007 album Attunement.

Artists Who Wrote Songs About Kate

Anderson-Gram are a duo based in California. Their song Western Wind was conceived at the second Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival and the second verse is about Kate.

Scottish-born Australian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle wrote Katie and the Dreamtime Land, one of his most popular songs, as a tribute to Kate Wolf.

Greg Brown wrote Kate’s Guitar for Kate Wolf and Nina Gerber.

Cyrus Clarke wrote Sunrise On The Radio about Kate.

Claire Dacey is a singer/songwriter from Massachusetts. The first verse of her song Singing My Way Home is about Kate.

Steve Gellman dedicated California to Kate on his album All You Need.

Don Lange wrote A Dreamer With Two Faces for Kate.

Jim Nail performed on two Kate Wolf albums. He wrote No Roads That Do Not Bend about Kate.

Joel Koosed wrote Goodbye Kate Wolf about Kate.

Bob Woods wrote I Miss Kate Wolf.

 Kate Wolf Recordings on Compilation Albums

Kate's original recordings appear alongside other artists on these collections.

Acoustic Box features Kate Wolf performing her song See Here She Said (with Kate on the album cover). Released in 2017 by Warner Music.

Connections 3, released in 2017 by KRCB-FM Radio. features Kate Wolf performing her song Riding In The Country.

Folk You Should Know features Kate Wolf performing Green Eyes.

First Press features Kate performing her song Although I've Gone Away.  This collection of songs by Sonoma County, California artists was released in 1981 on Rail Records #101.

Hallelujah: The World Of Canada's Poet Songwriter, released in 2018, features Kate Wolf performing the Leonard Cohen song Bird On A Wire.

John Muir Tribute album features Kate Wolf performing Give Yourself To Love.

Philadelphia Folk Festival features Kate performing Paul Siebel's song Then Came The Children from the 1977 Philadelphia Folk Festival. Released in 1978 on Flying Fish Records FF-064.

One Of A Kind: Maverick Female Singers features Kate Wolf performing Poet’s Heart.

Out Of The Darkness features Ian Campbell's song, The Sun Is Burning, recorded by Kate for this collection. Released in 1984 on Fire On The Mountain 4001.

Sing Out Magazine Vol. 50 #3 Fall 2006 contained a CD with Kate’s recording of The Lilac And The Apple.

Troubadours of Folk Vol. 4: Singer-Songwriters of the ‘70s features Kate Wolf’s recording of The Lilac & The Apple.

Women Of Folk features Kate performing her song Poet’s Heart.

 Kate Wolf Recordings in Film

Kate's song Across The Great Divide appeared in Downwind, Downstream, a documentary of the threat to water quality, sub-alpine ecosystems, and public health in the Colorado Rockies from mining operations, acid rain, and urbanization. It was released in 1988 by Bullfrog films and received several awards.

Songs in Books

Kate’s songs appear in the following songbooks.

Rise Up Singing: Give Yourself To Love
Rise Again: Across The Great Divide

Tribute Shows

Kate's friends, fans and family gathered to celebrate her life.

1987 • Memorial • Great American Music Hall
Nina Gerber, Bruce “Utah “ Phillips, Terry Garthwaite, Rosalie Sorrels, Wavy Gravy, and others held a memorial for Kate, who had passed away the previous December. Read about it in The Tenderloin Times.

1999 • 50th Birthday • Great American Music Hall
Kate’s musical friends took to the GAMH stage again to celebrate her life on the occasion of her 50th birthday.

2017 • 75th Birthday • Freight & Salvage
Kate’s friends, fans and family enjoyed a long evening of Kate Wolf songs and stories. We also celebrated the re-release of Kate’s first three albums on her original Owl Records label. Details.

And The Festival

The longest-lasting tribute to Kate was, of course, the annual Kate Wolf Music Festival, which ran for 25 years.  It always features "Kate Wolf Song Sets" by individual acts, as well as "in the round" style sessions with multiple artists singing  Kate songs and sharing their Kate stories. Each year, the festival closed with a main stage sing-along of Give Yourself To Love.