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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- Piano: The Romantic Fabric
- Artist:
  Samuel Sorin
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 10/25/2019
- Features: CD
- 2019 release. A highly regarded audio engineer, Emory Cook (1913 - 2002) was the developer of two track or binaural sound, an early attempt at stereo recording. Piano: The Romantic Fabric is an early... 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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- 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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- Music Boxes Carousels / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Sound Effects
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This special collection of 19th-century music boxes, carousels and hand organs yields not only the delicate bell-like tingle we associate with the music box or the huskier sound of hand organ... more
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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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- Music of St. Lucia / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This field recording reflects several musical traditions of the British commonwealth of St. Lucia. Traditions represented include English-influenced military brass bands and marches for fife and... more
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- Drums of Trinidad / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This recording of hand drumming from Port of Spain demonstrates African-derived rhythms performed in Trinidad and the broader Caribbean region, including the nation, koromanti, manding, halicord,... more
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- Le Jazz Primitif from Trinidad
- Artist:
  John "Buddy" Williams
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Hardly "primitive," this is sophisticated jazz improv "with the Trinidad touch." the musical settings range from smooth lounge jazz with vibes, piano, bass, and drums to funky importations of... more
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- Sound Effects 2 / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Sound Effects
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Cook Laboratories promises authentic, real sound effects recorded on-location for superior sound quality. Need a rail station train departure announcement, the squeal of a power saw or burble of... more
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- Paganini Variations
- Artist:
  Frank Glazer
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Written by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in 1838 and revised in 1851, these études are piano transcriptions of six of Niccolo Paganini's caprices for violin. Paganini was an Italian violinist known... more
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- Steel Band Clash / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Recorded in 1955, three sixteen-person steel bands-Big Shell, Brute Force and Hell's Gate-come together to provide a sampling of lively music from Antigua. Many of these meringues, sambas, mambos,... 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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- 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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- 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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- Calypso Atrocities / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Saucy, ballsy, outspoken, yes, but not exactly an "atrocity." Pay close attention to these calypso lyrics by Small Island Pride and Mighty Cypher.
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- Tiroro the Haitian Drummer
- Artist:
  Ti Roro
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Master drummer Tiroro performs traditional rhythms of Haitian vodou on a single drum, manipulating the drum into producing multiple pitches and timbres. This dynamic recording primarily consists of... more
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- Angel in the Absinthe House: Songs Indoor Manner
- Artist:
  La Vergne Smith
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Imagine wandering around the Vieux Carr+- in New Orleans to find the Old Absinthe House on Bienville and Bourbon. Here in the musty green atmosphere, LaVergne Smith recorded these songs.
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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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- Hot Songs My Mother Taught Me
- Artist:
  Lizzie Miles
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- To me I sing love songs-sad songs-torchy songs better. Guess it's because I had such a hard, sad life from as far back as I can remember is why. Cryin' songs and dyin' songs are the substance of... 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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- 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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