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- 900 Miles and Other R.R. Songs
- Artist:
  Cisco Houston
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Railroaders and cowboys share a need for music to bolster their spirits during long days and to celebrate night's freedom. Cisco Houston sings ballads from the range and from the lonesome track,... more
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- British Traditional Ballads Southern Mountains 1
- Artist:
  Jean Ritchie
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Ten years after British scholar Cecil J. Sharp declared the traditional English ballad a "moribund" art form, he discovered a rich and thriving tradition of ballad-singing in America's southern... more
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- Dock Boggs: Legendary Singer and Banjo Player
- Artist:
  Dock Boggs
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Banjo player Dock Boggs once said, "Lonesome songs always appealed to me." This collection features classic dark and lonely songs like "Pretty Polly" and "Oh Death." Meant as a companion album to... more
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- Cumberland Mountain Folksongs
- Artist:
  Paul Clayton
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Collector Paul Clayton performs the songs and ballads he collected in the Cumberland Mountains of Virginia and Kentucky in the 1950s-a repertoire that includes both old English and Scottish ballads... more
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- Ray Reed Sings Traditional Frontier &Cowboy Songs
- Artist:
  Ray Reed
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- On this 1977 Folkways release, New Mexico cowboy Ray Reed (1917-1998) sings songs about the old West; many of them he learned from his father, and he composed some as well. He had spent some years in... more
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- Hard Travelin'
- Artist:
  Cisco Houston
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Woody Guthrie described singer and actor Cisco Houston as a man who "likes hard hitting songs and hard hitting people. He likes to meet and to sing with the people." This album features both... more
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- 2,000 Years of Music / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- A tribute to prominent musicologist and pioneering ethnomusicologist Dr. Curt Sachs, this compilation of Western classical music tours Greek, Jewish and Gregorian chant traditions; early polyphony of... more
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- British Traditional Ballads Southern Mountains 2
- Artist:
  Jean Ritchie
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Jean Ritchie is a national treasure, one of America's finest and best known traditional singers. She grew up in Viper, Kentucky, and is part of a large family, the famous "Singing Ritchies of... more
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- Cisco Houston Sings Songs of the Open Road
- Artist:
  Cisco Houston
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- In the liner notes, Cisco Houston writes that he's been from coast to coast at least thirty times and has traveled a "good part" of the world as well. This album presents thirteen songs about the... more
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- Cowboy Ballads
- Artist:
  Cisco Houston
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 3/11/2011
- Features: CD
- Cisco Houston's first solo album on Folkways Records represents a small portion of the artist's repertoire of American folk music. Extensive liner notes (complete with a glossary of cowboy slang such... more
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- Dust Bowl Ballads
- Artist:
  Woody Guthrie
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 1/1/2009
- Features: CD
- Recorded in 1940, and later reissued by Folkways Recordings in 1950, Guthrie's first album chronicles the American Dust Bowl through his prosaic style of talking blues. Using only guitar and vocals,... more
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- Jelly Roll Morton Piano Classics, 1923-24
- Artist:
  Jelly Roll Morton
- Genre: Jazz, Jazz Traditional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Jelly Roll Morton's unexpected use of rhythm and his skill at emulating a full jazz band sound on the piano resonate throughout this collection of classic recordings from the Gennett label. These 19... more
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- Barbara Dane and the Chambers Brothers
- Artist:
  The Chambers Brothers
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Released in 1966, two years after the "Freedom Summer" of 1964, when civil rights activists concentrated their energy on registering black voters in the South, this album explicitly addresses the... more
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- American Folk Ballads
- Artist:
  Betty Garland
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This collection of ballads from the Kentucky mountains comes from the repertoire of Betty Garland, who learned them from her family. She writes, "I did my best to sing these songs the way I have... more
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- Songs of Texas
- Artist:
  Tex-I-An Boys
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Five men from the Houston area perform "Sixteen popular folk songs of the Lone Star State," most of which have become well-known throughout the country. The songs reflect some of the realities and... more
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- Broadside Ballads 11: Interviews with Phil Ochs
- Artist:
  Phil Ochs
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- It is dangerous to be a protest singer writes Broadside Magazine publisher Gordon Friesen in the liner notes to this album. This 1968 series of interviews with folk singer Phil Ochs was released... more
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- Elizabeth Cotten, Volume 3: When I'm Gone
- Artist:
  Elizabeth Cotten
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- In the mid-1940s, Elizabeth Cotten (1895-1987) chanced to meet composer Ruth Crawford Seeger at a department store. They began to talk, and Seeger soon hired Cotten to work in the Seeger household.... more
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- Charles Ives: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Vol. 2
- Artist:
  Paul Zukofsky
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Charles Ives has grown into one of the most important American classical composers of international distinction, but it wasn't always like this: Ives was frustrated by indifferent audiences and... more
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- Charles Ives: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Vol. 1
- Artist:
  Paul Zukofsky
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Charles Ives has grown into one of the most important American classical composers of international distinction, but it wasn't always like this: Ives was frustrated by indifferent audiences and... more
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- Blue Ridge Mountains / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Stemming from a want to preserve the dwindling unique oral traditions of the Blue Ridge Mountain back-country region, Eric Davidson, Paul Newman and Caleb Finch performed field recordings of songs... more
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- Head Start: With the Child Development
- Artist:
  Child Development Group of Mississippi
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This selection of freedom songs, spirituals, and children's music is a snapshot of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the mid-1960s, when the nationally funded Head Start program struggled... more
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- Sea Island Folk Festival: Moving Star
- Artist:
  Moving Star Hall Singers
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- In 1964, after five winters living and working with the people of the Sea Islands of South Carolina (helping with adult literacy programs and recording singing traditions), musician and musicologist... more
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- First Songs
- Artist:
  Michael Hurley
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- A self-taught folk singer and guitarist, Michael Hurley plays music reflective of his upbringing in the rural backcountry of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Recorded when he was 22, First Songs was... more
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- Appalachian Dulcimer: An Instructional Record
- Artist:
  Jean Ritchie
- Genre: Instructional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 3/11/2011
- Features: CD
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- My Epitaph: A Documentary In Song and
- Artist:
  Ola Belle Reed
- Genre: Country, Folk
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 6/4/2007
- Features: CD
- Banjo player and singer Ola Belle Reed created this album and it's accompanying notes as an autobiography, a document that describes her childhood in the mountains, her experiences, and her opinions... more
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