Smithsonian Folkways Special Collection on DeepDiscount

- Dead Beat Guitar and the Mississippi Blues
- 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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- Vol. 2-Bourgeois Blues
- 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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- 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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- His Story Told, Annotated and Documented
- Artist:
  Blind Willie Johnson
- Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- Singing and begging are about the only two ways a blind man can make a living in farm country. Several years after Blind Willie Johnson's death in 1949, Samuel B. Charters tries to get to know the... more
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- Memphis Slim and the Real Boogie-Woogie
- Artist:
  Memphis Slim
- Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- Peter Chatman Jr.., aka Memphis Slim, stomps out a "progressive boogie and blues" on the piano. Self-taught in the honky-tonk juke joints of Tennessee, he produced some of the most powerful... more
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- Son House: Blues from the Mississippi Delta
- Artist:
  J.D. Short
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This album presents the distinctive blues born from the hardships of life-especially African-American life-in northern Mississippi. In addition to their music, this collection includes the men's... more
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- Rural Blues / Various
- 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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- Get on Board: Negro Folksongs By the Folkmasters
- Artist:
  Sonny Terry
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- This album by harmonica player Sonny Terry and guitarist Brownie McGhee, with Coyal McMahan on maracas features traditional blues songs, spirituals, and originals by the three... more
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- Country Blues / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- 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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- Church Songs: Sung & Played on the Piano By Little
- Artist:
  Little Brother Montgomery
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 3/11/2011
- Features: CD
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- Folkways Years
- Artist:
  Lonnie Johnson
- Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 7/13/1992
- Features: CD
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- Pure Religion & Bad Company
- Artist:
  Rev. Gary Davis
- Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 2/14/1992
- Features: CD
- The classic 1957 release from one of the greats of gospel blues, a rough diamond of hard, pure country gospel expression, at odds with the earthly concerns of the blues and yet entwined with the... more
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- The Blues in St. Louis, Vol. 3: Henry Townsend
- Artist:
  Henry Townsend
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- In the Blues in St. Louis, Volume 3, electric guitarist Henry Townsend plays familiar blues songs, accompanied by Tommy Bankhead on electric bass. Samuel Charters, who recorded the session in 1961,... more
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- Blues with Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry
- Artist:
  Big Bill Broonzy
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- I've never had the blues, says Brownie McGhee in an interview with famed oral historian, Studs Terkel, "the blues has always had me." the trio of legendary bluesmen played, talked, and traded stories... more
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- Sonny Terry's New Sound: Jawharp in Blues & Folk
- Artist:
  Sonny Terry
- Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- Best known for his blues harmonica recordings, Sonny Terry joins friends Brownie McGhee and J.C. Burris to explore the range of the jawharp (also known as Jew's harp or mouth harp) in blues and... more
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- The Women Blues of Champion Jack Dupree
- Artist:
  Champion Jack Dupree
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Orphaned at age 2, William Thomas Dupree grew up in the same New Orleans boys' home where Louis Armstrong first played the cornet. Continuing his music education with barrelhouse piano musicians,... more
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- Blues By Jazz Gillum Singing Playing His Harmonica
- Artist:
  Jazz Gillum
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- An influential figure in the growth of the Southern blues tradition, William "Jazz" Gillum (1904-1966) had the kind of life from which the blues spring. Orphaned, starved, threatened, shot at,... more
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- Chicago Blues: Boogie Woogie and Blues
- Artist:
  Memphis Slim
- Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- The music on this recording is at once far-reaching and intimate. It has a quality enjoyed well beyond contemporary fans of this style of music, and yet this recording gives the listener the sense of... more
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- Blues Roots Mississippi / Various
- 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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- Atlanta Blues / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- 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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- Blues Roots Chicago 30's / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- As the Depression's early days brought Southern musicians to Northern cities, the Chicago blues scene absorbed and incorporated these new arrivals. Ensembles grew, the blues became more popular, and... more
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- Country Blues 2 / Various
- 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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- Roots: Rhythm & Blues / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Blues, Rock
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- 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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- Songs of Memphis Slim & Wee Willie Dixon
- Artist:
  Memphis Slim
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This album features big-voiced blues pianist and singer Memphis Slim and legendary bassist Willie Dixon, who is credited with having helped create the Chicago blues sound. Several tracks from this... more
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- Cat-Iron Sings Blues and Hymns
- Artist:
  Cat Iron
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This album presents what seem to be the two sides of singer Cat-Iron's repertoire: that of the blues musician and that of the converted Christian. As Frederic Ramsey, Jr.. writes, "Cat-Iron might be... more
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