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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Songs of Memphis Slim & Wee Willie Dixon , Memphis Slim

    • 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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  • Memphis Slim and the Real Boogie-Woogie , Memphis Slim

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  • Pure Religion & Bad Company , Rev. Gary Davis

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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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  • Dreams About Life , Guy Davis

    • Artist:
      Guy Davis
    • Genre: Blues, Bluegrass
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • This album was the first release for folk musician and songwriter Guy Davis, and he has gone on to become one of the most luminous bluesmen around. His music features intricate finger work on the... more
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  • Son House: Blues from the Mississippi Delta , J.D. Short

    • 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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  • Cat-Iron Sings Blues and Hymns , Cat Iron

    • 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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  • Sonny Terry - Harmonica and Vocal Solos , Sonny Terry

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Folkways Years , Lonnie Johnson

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  • Blues Roots Mississippi / Various , Various Artists

    • Artist:
      Various Artists
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • 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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  • Get on Board: Negro Folksongs By the Folkmasters , Sonny Terry

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  • Traditional Blues - Vol. 1 , Brownie McGhee

    • Artist:
      Brownie McGhee
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • This album presents a variety of blues, and in Brownie McGhee's singing are echoes of work and dance songs, as well as spirituals. Brownie himself once said, "I want to make music the way I know is... more
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  • Traditional Blues - Vol. 2 , Brownie McGhee

    • Artist:
      Brownie McGhee
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Charles Edward Smith, author of the album's notes, writes, "Few singers evoke as forcefully as Brownie the many-sidedness of heritage... sentiment and sex, humor and the solar plexus shots of bitter... more
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  • Jazz Vol. 1: South / Various , Various Artists

    • Artist:
      Various Artists
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Moses Asch purchased the "race records" heard on this album in 1941 for 15 cents each. Demonstrating some of the musical styles characteristic of the American South that proved influential in shaping... more
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  • Blues Harp: An Instruction Method , Tony Glover

    • Artist:
      Tony Glover
    • Genre: Blues
    • Label: Folkways Records
    • Release Date: 5/30/2012
    • Features: CD
    • Tony "Little Sun" Glover (b. 1939) is a Minneapolis-born harmonica player and singer, most notably associated with guitarists "Spider" John Koerner and Dave "Snaker" Ray during the folk revival in... more
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  • Sonny Terry's New Sound: Jawharp in Blues & Folk , Sonny Terry

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