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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- Cook's Tour of High / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Sound Effects
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Emory Cook gives listeners a tour of high fidelity recording, demonstrating techniques that enhance the sound quality and using musical performances, orations and sound effects to make his points.
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- Voice of Mexico / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Zepoll, an outstanding classical guitarist, was recorded at his home in Monterrey. The Trio Leones was currently playing at a restaurant on Reforma in Mexico City.
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- Grenada Stories & Songs / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This field recording begins to document the tradition of spoken and sung storytelling in Grenada, a small island in the Caribbean. Full of humor, stories are told in English or English patois by a... more
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- Meringue!
- Artist:
  Ensemble Aux Calebasses
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Who first invented the meringue has long been a battle of pride for Haitians and Dominicans. While this recording alone cannot provide the decisive answer, it does prove that the lively dance form is... more
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- Champion Steel Trinidad / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Headliners at Carnival and pan competitions, these six champion steel bands from Trinidad offer listeners songs that hum gently or dance wildly. Participating ensembles are the Katzenjammers, the... more
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- Mosque Theater: Reginald Foort at the Console
- Artist:
  Reginald Foort
- Genre: Rock
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- One of the most recorded organists in history, Reginald Foort performs sentimental favorites from the 1950s on the legendary Wurlitzer at the Mosque Theatre in Richmond, Virginia. "Mood Indigo,"... more
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- Belly to Belly Dancing / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Nestled in the Port of Spain, the Tom Charles, Fitz Vaughn Bryan, Johnny Gomez and Clarence Curvan Orchestras as well as the Vin Cardinal Combo provide alternatively upbeat and sultry grooves for... more
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- Moans and Blues
- Artist:
  Lizzie Miles
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Blues doesn't get more New Orleans sweet-an'-sour than when it's done by Creole Songbird Lizzie Miles. Sweet she appreciates: "I ain't gonna give you none of my jelly-roll... not to save your soul."... more
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- Caribbean Limbo Music
- Artist:
  Lord Melody
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- How low can you go? Chances are, you'll laugh (or at least giggle) before you reach your limit. These largely instrumental pieces with limbo-appropriate rhythms are interspersed with brief humorous... more
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- Ionosphere / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Sound Effects
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Did you know that the ionosphere makes noise? Or that that noise is actually possible to record? This recording shows that the ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere that is ionized by solar... more
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- Calypso Lore & Legend / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- 71-year old Chinee Patrick Jones, one of the most famous old-time Calypsonians to pass through Port of Spain, tells stories from his singing days and sings old tunes. As Jones reminisces, Carnival... more
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- Epilogue to the String Band Tradition
- Artist:
  Grand Curucaye String Orchestra of Trinidad
- Genre: International
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- The Grand Curucaye String Orchestra performs lively old-time Spanish dance music, now a nearly forgotten genre. What is notable about this music is that string instruments are plucked rather than... more
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- Camp Has a Ball
- Artist:
  Red Camp
- Genre: Rock
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- The scene: A late-nite party in Laredo, Texas; Plaza Hotel. The players: foremost, legendary jazz pianist Red Camp, with sidekick trumpeter Dude Skiles; in the background, close friends of the... more
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- Lord Melody Sings Calypso
- Artist:
  Lord Melody
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- The legendary calypsonian Lord Melody (nee Fitzroy Alexander) put together the songs on this recording in a matter of days, but it is a superb demonstration of the genre. A dynamic performer known... more
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- Brute Force of Antigua / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- For this Cook recording, the Brute Force Steel Band of Antigua performs mambos, rumbas, sambas, calypsos and meringues plus a march and a bolero. A Trinidadian / Tobagan innovation that came out of... more
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- Music to Awaken the Ballroom Beast
- Artist:
  Brute Force Steel Band
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- In the streets of Antigua shortly following WWII, the Brute Force Steel Band began as one of the ensembles that would pioneer Caribbean steel pan music. These calypsos, meringues, sambas, tangos and... more
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- The New Clavichord
- Artist:
  Red Camp
- Genre: Rock
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- One early morning, way past midnight, Pianist Red Camp engaged himself in a one-person jam session... on a clavichord. The delicate, 14th century instrument is more likely to be associated with... more
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- Hellish Calypso / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Why "Hellish"? the liner notes explain that it's in part because of the very apparent "pear-shaped atrocities" a listener hears in out-of-tune melodies and unintelligible lyrics. But this is a "basic... more
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- Calypso Jamaica / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This is not the glossy, occasionally dross calypso that entertains tourists or wins Calypso King competitions. It is more rustic in flavor, speaks more to non-urban audiences and is accompanied only... more
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- Burlesque Uncensored / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Spoken
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Saucy comedy sketches and bawdy music meant to accompany chorus line routines and stripteases to put you in the mood are what's to be found here. This hilarious recording bills itself as "a... more
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- Jump Up Carnival / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- And now ladies and gentlemen... Lord Melody's coming to knock you out now. The audience roars as the calypsonian king boasts about his ugly looks and the "booboo" his children see in the yard.... more
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- Jawbone of An Ass / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This Conga is all alcohol, percussion and one Chinese Trumpet. So says Ariel Fiallo Arias, a citizen of Santiago, in describing a music almost singularly identified with his homeland. With melodic... more
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- Blowout at Mardi Gras / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- With clarinetist Sid Davilla, Freddie Kohlman's Band blows some swingin' Dixieland jazz at the Mardi Gras Lounge in New Orleans. This is a highly energetic groove with irresistible instrumental solos... more
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- Ecuador
- Artist:
  Benitez-Valencia Trio
- Genre: International
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- "High in the Andes, in Quito, Ecuador's most popular singers Gonzalo Benetez and Alberto Valencia combine voices with guitar to sing sultry romance of the Andes, direct from Quito" Perry H. Culley... more
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