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  • Vol. 2-Bourgeois Blues , Leadbelly

    • Artist:
      Leadbelly
    • Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 3/18/1997
    • Features: CD
    • This is volume 2 of a projected 3-volume set of Lead Belly's performances recorded by Moses Asch during the 1940s. The original masters now reside in the Folkways Archive at the Smithsonian... more
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  • Ballads & Songs Oa Appalachia , Frank Proffitt

    • Artist:
      Frank Proffitt
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folk Legacy
    • Release Date: 5/8/2001
    • Features: CD
    • Re-issue of Folk Legacy's first album released in 1962 contains the works of traditional North Carolina folk singer/banjo plucker (he played a fretless groundhog hide neck banjo) from whom the song... more
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  • Pink Anderson: Carolina Medicine Show Hokum , Pink Anderson

    • Artist:
      Pink Anderson
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Pink Anderson (1900-1974) spent most of his life working as a roving entertainer in the small medicine shows that traveled throughout the South. His stage repertoire included blues, comedic songs,... more
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  • Brownie McGhee Blues , Brownie McGhee

    • Artist:
      Brownie McGhee
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 3/11/2011
    • Features: CD
    • Of Brownie McGhee's expressive thumb-and-forefinger guitar style Charles Edward Smith writes, "[it] sings and rings and whangs and talks to you." Indeed it does, and his versatile voice molds each... more
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  • Country Blues / Various , Various Artists

    • Artist:
      Various Artists
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Originally released in 1959, The Country Blues features a range of styles and a collection of recordings not included in other Folkways compilations. This selection-mostly recorded between 1927 and... more
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  • Atlanta Blues / Various , Various Artists

    • Artist:
      Various Artists
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Isolated by it's surrounding hills, Atlanta developed a blues style described as "the summation of country Georgia music." the city's strummed and simple style retained it's local flavor until the... more
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  • Sonny Terry - Harmonica and Vocal Solos , Sonny Terry

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  • Get on Board: Negro Folksongs By the Folkmasters , Sonny Terry

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  • Folkways Years , Lonnie Johnson

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  • Pure Religion & Bad Company , Rev. Gary Davis

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  • Dead Beat Guitar and the Mississippi Blues , K.C. Douglas

    • Artist:
      K.C. Douglas
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Cook Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • K.C. Douglas was a self-designed musician, never acknowledged as a professional. Still, his music effectively addressed the concerns of many living in the South-women, money and cars-and he used a... more
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  • Rural Blues / Various , Various Artists

    • Artist:
      Various Artists
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Taken from unreleased recordings, previous Folkways releases, and early blues recordings, this two-disc set offers an introduction to the vocal styles, ornamentation, and instrumentation of this... more
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  • Farro Street Jive , Little Brother Montgomery

    • Artist:
      Little Brother Montgomery
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Little Brother Montgomery (1906-1985) was an American jazz, boogie woogie, and blues pianist and singer. This album features a number of blues and jazz standards, including "Pine Top Boogie Woogie"... more
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  • Memphis Slim and the Real Boogie-Woogie , Memphis Slim

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  • Furry Lewis , Furry Lewis

    • Artist:
      Furry Lewis
    • Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Walter E. "Furry" Lewis (1893-1981), was a Mississippi-born, Memphis-bred guitarist and singer whose early fame was based on his 1927 recordings for the Victor label. When the Depression ended most... more
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  • Brownie McGhee Sings the Blues , Brownie McGhee

    • Artist:
      Brownie McGhee
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 3/11/2011
    • Features: CD
    • Piedmont blues singer and guitarist Brownie McGhee's voice rings clear over his strumming about love, cheating, and remembering his friend Big Bill Broonzy. Liner notes include song lyrics and brief... more
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  • Down at the Union Hall , Kenny Winfree

    • Artist:
      Kenny Winfree
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Collector Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Joe Glazer said of Kenny Winfree: "[He's] got a talent that looks easy but few folks can do it. He has [a] knack for writing catchy, moving songs with a message-songs that are easy to sing and easy... more
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  • Roots: Rhythm & Blues / Various , Various Artists

    • Artist:
      Various Artists
    • Genre: Blues, Rock
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • This compilation brings together recordings produced by Henry Hines and Al White for Lynn's Productions, and provides a musical snapshot of some of the bands popular in clubs, fraternities, and... more
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  • Blues Roots Mississippi / Various , Various Artists

    • Artist:
      Various Artists
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
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    • From the early blues of Son House, Willie Brown, and Charley Patton to the assertive music of the Depression, the Mississippi delta has produced songs and singers with a fierce honesty that has... more
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  • Sleepy John Estes, 1929-1940 , Sleepy John Estes

    • Artist:
      Sleepy John Estes
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Recorded on Victor and Decca in the 1920s and 30s, Sleepy John Estes was a leading exponent of the Memphis blues style. These recordings capture the distinctive sound of Yank Rachel's legato mandolin... more
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  • Country Blues 2 / Various , Various Artists

    • Artist:
      Various Artists
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • This second volume continues Folkways' The Country Blues (FW00RF1) and is the result of efforts in the early 1960s to find singers who were previously known only as names on commercial recordings.... more
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  • Blues: Music Documentary / Various , Various Artists

    • Artist:
      Various Artists
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • While recording in the South in the early 1960s, producer, writer, and music historian Samuel Charters was inspired not only by the sound of Furry Lewis's guitar, but by the patterns of movement in... more
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  • Sonny Terry's Washboard Band , Sonny Terry

    • Artist:
      Sonny Terry
    • Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Blind harmonica player and singer Sonny Terry recorded a few records during the 1930s and 1940s, but found wider fame in the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. This recording features a washboard... more
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  • There's Always Tomorrow , Arbee Stidham

    • Artist:
      Arbee Stidham
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Recorded by Folkways in 1973, this lively album by Arbee Stidham recaptures his classic Southern Blues roots. Stidham says: "In doing this session, I thought back to my boyhood days when I was... more
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  • Hell Bound and Heaven Sent Blues , Shortstuff Macon

    • Artist:
      Shortstuff Macon
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Recorded on the night of May 18, 1964 after a small concert at Bard College, Hell Bound and Heaven Sent Blues documents two blues singers and guitar players, Big Joe Williams and John Wesley "Short... more
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