Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vol. 2

Folkways Records – FH 5437

Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1962
Genre: Brass & Military, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Historical Song
[Tracklis]
A1 Jarama: Woody Guthrie
A2 On The Jarama Front: Ernst Busch with Chorus and Orchestra
A3 Ballad of The XI Brigade: Ernst Busch with Chorus and Orchestra
A4 Hans Beimler, Comerade (New Words): Ernst Busch with Chorus and Orchestra
A5 The Thaelmann-Column (New Words): Ernst Busch with Chorus and Orchestra
B1 Santa Espina: People of Catalonia, Spain
B2 Sevillanos: People of Seville, Spain
B3 The Road To Aviles: People of Asturias, Spain
B4 La Guardia Rossa - Song of The Garibaldi Battalion (Italian): Bart Van Der Schelling
B6 La Joven Guardia - French Song For The Spanish Youth: Bart Van Der Schelling
B7 Au Devant De La Vie (As Sung by French-Belgian Battalion): Bart Van Der Schelling
[Credits]
Recorder: Moses Asch, Designer: Ronald Clyne, Liner Notes: Milton Robinson and Moe Fishman [Notes]
The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) was initially an armed conflict between a democratically elected government and a revolt by far right-wing Spanish military officers led by Francisco Franco, who were supported by the fascist governments of Italy and Nazi Germany. Anti-fascist supporters flocked to Spain to help the beleaguered government. This recording contains a selection of pro-democracy, anti-fascist songs from that conflict including Woody Guthrie's version of "Jarama," a song about the Americans' involvement on the Republican side. Also featured are Spanish songs the Americans remembered especially fondly, several anti-fascist songs sung in German by Ernst Busch, and songs of combatants who had been captured and interned. Extensive liner notes include a history of the conflict and song lyrics. In 2014 this release and FW05436 Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vol. 1 were re-issued in full with new liner notes as SFW40188 Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Volumes 1 & 2.

Sea Chanties and Forecastle Songs at Mystic Seaport

Folkways Records – FTS 37300

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1978
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Celtic
[Tracklist]
A01 Hanging Johnny: Stuart M. Frank (0:37)
A02 John Kanaka: Stuart Gillespie (1:07)
A03 Rueben Ranzo: Stuart M. Frank (1:09)
A04 The Wild Goose: Stuart Gillespie (1:11)
A05 Roll the Cotton Down: Stuart Gillespie (1:17)
A06 Blood Red Roses: Stuart M. Frank (1:34)
A07 A Hundred Years Ago: Stuart Gillespie (1:07)
A08 Tommy's Gone to Hilo: Stuart M. Frank (1:02)
A09 Haul Away for Rosie-O: Stuart Gillespie (1:52)
A10 Billy Riley / Sally Racket: Stuart M. Frank, Stuart Gillespie (0:37)
A11 Goodbye, Fare Ye Well: Stuart M. Frank (1:54)
A12 Shenandoah: Stuart Gillespie (3:00)
A13 Santa Anna: Stuart M. Frank (1:22)
A14 Can Ye Dance the Polka: Stuart M. Frank (2:39)
A15 Sally Brown: Stuart Gillespie (1:17)
A16 One More Day: Stuart M. Frank (1:16)
A17 Paddy on the Railway: Stuart M. Frank (1:37)
B01 The Weary Whaling Grounds: Stuart M. Frank (1:42)
B02 The Balaena: Stuart M. Frank (1:02)
B03 The Handsome Cabin Boy: Stuart Gillespie (2:27)
B04 Liverpool Judies: Stuart M. Frank (1:08)
B05 Paddy and the Whale: Ellen R. Cohn (0:32)
B06 Traditional Reel: Ellen R. Cohn (0:35)
B07 Mystic River Hornpipe: Stuart M. Frank (0:56)
B08 Traditional Jig: Stuart M. Frank (1:03)
B09 The Bold Harpooner: Stuart M. Frank (2:23)
B10 The Coast of Peru: Stuart Gillespie (3:11)
B11 Blow Ye Winds Westerly: Stuart M. Frank (1:25)
B12 Maid of Amsterdam: Stuart M. Frank (0:47)
B13 Greenland Whale Fisheries: Stuart Gillespie (2:16)
B14 Ten Penny Bit: Ellen R. Cohn (1:31)
B15 Belfast Hornpipe: Ellen R. Cohn (0:41)
B16 The Forester: Ellen R. Cohn (0:43)
B17 The Bold Benjamin: Stuart M. Frank (1:41)
[Credits]
Stuart M. Frank (concertina/accordion/vocals) Stuart Gillespie (concertina/vocals) Ellen Cohn (concertina/penny whistle/ocarina)
Engineer: Kenneth Mahler, Designer: Ronald Clyne
[Notes]
This album features classic sea shanties from the 19th century, "sung in the traditional manner, accompanied on historic 19th-century instruments, and recorded aboard historic sailing ships" at the Mystic Seaport Maritime Museum. Shanties were sung to make the heavy labor aboard merchant sailing vessels more coordinated, efficient, and lighter. "To hear a good yarn, and sing out a lively, rowdy chorus, was far more pleasurable" than listening to the bosun yelling orders. Liner notes include background on chanties, song lyrics, and black-and-white photographs of sailors.

40 Years Of Concerts Performances: The New Lost City Ramblers

Rounder 82161-0481-2

Format: 2×CD, HDCD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2001
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
1-01 Soldier's Joy (1:36)
1-02 Down In The Willow (3:15)
1-03 Brown's Ferry Blues (3:16)
1-04 Too Tight Rag (1:34)
1-05 Little Birdie (2:28)
1-06 Darling Corey (3:06 1-07 The Democratic Donkey (Is In His Stall Again) (2:30)
1-08 Poor Ellen Smith (2:17)
1-09 On Some Foggy Mountain Top (3:22)
1-10 Cackling Hen (2:05)
1-11 The Battleship Of Maine (3:31)
1-12 Worried Man Blues (3:02)
1-13 The Unquiet Grave (3:51)
1-14 Lady Of Carlisle (4:17)
1-15 Groundhog (3:00)
1-16 Orange Blossom Special (3:33)
1-17 East Virginia Blues (2:44)
1-18 Country Blue (3:36)
1-19 Little Maggie (2:22)
1-20 The Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake (3:26)
1-21 Keep Moving (3:11)
1-22 Fortune (1:49)
1-23 She Tickles Me (3:52)
1-24 The Arkansas Traveller (3:43)
1-25 Saddle Up The Grey (2:55)
2-01 Sally Goodin (1:43)
2-02 The Old Bell Cow (3:55 2-03 It's Hard To Leave You, Sweet Love (3:12)
2-04 Dark Holler Blues (2:56)
2-05 Locks And Bolts (2:38)
2-06 Wildwood Weed (3:09 2-07 Milk 'Em In The Evening Blues (3:06)
2-08 Madeleine (3:50)
2-09 Sourwood Mountain (1:11)
2-10 Black Bottom Strut (2:12)
2-11 Jordan Is A Hard Road To Travel (3:14)
2-12 The Old Man At The Mill (3:01)
2-13 Tom Sherman's Barroom (4:14)
2-14 Turkey In The Straw (Introduction) (1:34)
2-15 Turkey In The Straw (2:06)
2-16 Old Joe Clark (1:54)
2-17 Rabbit Chase (3:38)
2-18 Poor Old Dirt Farmer (4:41)
2-19 Tennessee Blues (2:45)
2-20 Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar (3:06)
2-21 I've Always Been A Rambler (4:02)
2-22 Baltimore Fire (3:42)
2-23 Three Men Went A-Hunting (2:33)
[Credits]
Mike Seeger (fiddle/banjo/autoharp/mandolin/harmonica) Tom Paley (banjo/guitar/kazoo) Tracy Schwarz (fiddle/guitar/banjo/accordion) John Cohen (guitar/ banjo/autoharp/kazoo)
[Notes]
Unlike many bands, the history of the New Lost City Ramblers is fairly easy to trace. John Cohen and Mike Seeger joined with Tom Paley between '58 and '62, reviving string-band music from the '20s and '30s. In '62, Tracy Schwarz' replaced a departing Paley, adding new material to the band's repertoire. 40 Years of Concert Recordings proves as straightforward, offering nearly 50 live songs from "Soldier's Joy" in 1958, capturing the band's first performance, to the "Tennessee Blues" recorded in 1999. These live performances, quality wise, vary little from the group's studio work. The difference, however, lies in the Ramblers' sense of humor and interaction with audiences. Whether offering an earnest introduction or just having a little fun, the group leaves the impression of a bunch of nice guys having a good time doing what they love. Their repertoire is broad and diverse: the anti-war "The Battleship of Maine" makes way for the hoary "Poor Ellen Smith" which moves aside for the joyful "Too Tight Rag." A version of "Sourwood Mountain" finds the Ramblers jamming with the Stanley Brothers, while Seeger offers a superb take on "Little Maggie." With such variety, the band takes on the persona of a walking folksong encyclopedia. The Ramblers also proved amenable to changing times. A particularly odd and enjoyable "Wildwood Weed" turns tradition on its head, crossing the Carter Family with the counter-culture to sing the praises of the weed cannabis. Though many of these recordings have been available before, 16 are new to this collection. This two-CD set provides a detailed portrait of one of the premiere revival bands, searching for new directions over the years, while remaining firmly planted in yesteryear. 40 Years of Concert Recordings will please long-time fans and work as a grand introduction to those unfamiliar. -- AllMusic Review by Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr.

First Blues: Rags, Ballads and Harmonium Songs - Allen Ginsberg

Folkways Records‎– FSS 37560

Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1981
Genre: Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Field Recording, Spoken Word, Ballad
[Tracklist]
A1 4 A.M. Blues / New York Blues / New York Youth Call Annunciation (10:02)
A2 Come Back Christmas; MacDougal Street Blues (6:52)
A3 CIa Dope Calypso (4:59)
A4 Put Down Yr Cigarette Rag (3:42)
B1 Slack Key Guitar; Siratoka Beach Croon (7:03)
B2 Bus Ride Ballad To Suva (4:16)
B3 Prayer Blues (10:25)
B4 Dope Fiend Blues (4:30)
[Credits]
Allen Ginsberg (harmonium/vocals)
Designer: Ronald Clyne, Producer: Ann Charters, Recorder: Harry Smith
[Notes]
Legendary Beat poet Allen Ginsberg explores the fusion of poetry and music in this rare 1970s recording. Called a "venerated bard of resistance" Ginsberg sought "how the raw mind actually works" through poetry. This collection of fun ditties spouts against capitalism, among other things, and is an amusing and enjoyable listen. Ginsberg accompanies himself with a small hand-pumped harmonium from India, occasionally adding his own guttural rhythms reminiscent of Dadaist sound-poetry (see for example "Put Down Your Cigarette Rag" and "Prayer Blues"), while other songs, such as "Bus Ride Ballad Road to Suva", echo folk ballads from yesteryear. Ginsberg prefaces each song himself. Liner notes include an introduction from Ginsberg.

Vari-colored Songs (A Tribute To Langston Hughes) Leyla McCalla

Music Maker Relief Foundation – MMCD142

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2013
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
01 Heart Of Gold (2:59)
02 When I Can See The Valley (2:10)
03 Mesi Bondye (2:25)
04 Girl (2:52)
05 Kamèn Sa W Fè (2:19)
06 Too Blue (2:27)
07 Manman Mwen (3:18)
08 Song For A Dark Girl (2:51)
09 Love Again Blues (2:39)
10 Rose Marie (2:57)
11 Latibonit (3:47)
12 Search (3:19)
13 Lonely House (3:25)
14 Changing Tide (3:03)
[Credits]
Leyla McCalla (tenor banjo/guitar/cello/vocals) Rhiannon Giddens (shaker/vocals) Matt Rhody (fiddle) Hubby Jenkins and Luke Winslow-King (guitar) Tom Pryor (pedal steel guitar) Don Vappie (tenor banjo) Hubby Jenkins (bones) Cassidy Holden and Joseph DeJarnette (bass)
Liner Notes: Jean-Pierre Bruneau, Artwork: Bruno Boussard, Producer: Joseph Dejarnette, Photographers: Langston Hughes, Tim Duffy and Rowland Scherman Engneers: Earl Sciouneaux III, Joseph DeJarnette and Joseph Dejarnette
[Notes]
Leyla McCalla's Vari-Colored Songs is a celebration of the complexity of Black culture and identity, and a tribute to the legacy of poet and thinker Langston Hughes. A songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, McCalla sets Hughes’ poems to her own spare yet profound compositions. She juxtaposes these with arrangements of folk songs from Haiti, the first independent Black nation and the homeland of her parents, tapping into the nuances of Black experience. McCalla’s music elegantly weaves Haitian influences together with American folk music, just as Hughes incorporated Black vernacular into his remarkable poetry, and the way the Haitian Kreyòl is a beacon for the survival of African identity through the brutal legacy of colonialism. This is music of reclamation, imbued with a quiet power that grapples with the immense weight of history.

Vari-Colored Songs had a limited release in 2013, with the New York Times proclaiming that "McCalla's magnificently transparent music holds tidings of family, memory, solitude and the inexorability of time: weighty thoughts handled with the lightest touch imaginable." The recording is being brought to a wider audience by Smithsonian Folkways at a time when the history McCalla explores is more relevant than ever. As she states in the album’s liner notes, "The wisdom and truth that Langston Hughes continues to provide us through his prolific output inspires us to celebrate the assumedly mundane and stigmatized parts of our society. The future has always been uncertain, and it has always been up to us to push for the changes that we want to see in the world."

Charlie Poole With The Highlanders – The Complete Paramount & Brunswick Recordings, 1929

Tompkins Square – TSQ 2875

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2013
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country, Old Time
[Tracklist]
01 Lynchburg Town (3:04)
02 San Antonio (2:52)
03 Richmond Square (3:03
04 May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister (3:13)
05 A Trip To New York, Part I (3:10)
06 A Trip To New York, Part II (3:00)
07 A Trip To New York, Part III (2:50)
08 A Trip To New York, Part IV (2:59)
9 Flop Eared Mule (3:02)
10 Tennessee Blues (3:05)
11 Under The Double Eagle (3:00)
12 What Is Home Without Babies (3.02)
[Notes]
From 1926 to 1930 one of the most popular rural string bands on record was Charlie Poole and The North Carolina Ramblers. Through their 78 RPM discs and their various performances, Charlie Poole was second only to Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers. Poole’s uniquely syncopated three finger banjo picking style coupled with his Piedmont vocal inflections eventually colored and defined much of what we consider "old-time" music. The classic configuration of banjo, fiddle and guitar with vocals was encouraged by the main label that promoted Poole but he also wanted to record instrumentals featuring twin-fiddle and piano. As renaming his group The Highlanders, Poole was able to actualize this musical vision. This collection contains all of the sides that Poole made with Roy Harvey, Lucy Terry, and twin-fiddlers Lonnie Austin & Odell Smith. Remastered in beautiful sound by Christopher King and with notes written by old-time musician and scholar Kinney Rorrer.

Family Strings: Billy Strings and His Dad Terry Barber

Live at City Opera House in Traverse City, MI. on February 28, 2020

A re-edited/remastered version of Billy Strings and Terry Barber's incredible performance at City Opera House in Traverse City, Michigan. This broadcast was brought to you by a dedicated group of volunteers. To find out more, visit: Traverse Area Community Media

1. Brown’s Ferry Blues
2. Windy and Warm
3. Tall Pines
4. Big Sandy River
5. Mother’s Not Dead
6. Way Downtown
7. Bye Bye Blues
8. Portrait of the Blues
9. Summertime
10. Pear Tree
11. Little White Church in the Valley
12. Fiddler’s Dram
13. Long Journey Home
14. The Preacher and the Bear
15. Miss the Mississippi
16. Dig a Little Deeper in the Well
17. Georgia Buck
18. Letter Edged in Black
19. Beaumont Rag
20. Willie Roy
21. Salt Creek
22. Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
23. Cocaine Blues
24. Here Comes the Sun
25. Streamlined Cannonball
26. Bringing Mary Home
27. Blue Ridge Cabin Home
28. Rank Stranger

Produced by Traverse Area Community Media, Billy Strings (guitar/banjo/vocals) Terry Barber (guitar/vocals)

Songs of Our Native Daughters

Smithsonian Folkways SFW40232

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 22 Feb 2019
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Black Myself (3:56)
A2 Moon Meets The Sun (4:08)
A3 Barbados (5:52)
A4 Quasheba, Quasheba (4:43)
A5 I Knew I Could Fly (3:42)
A6 Mama's Cryin' Long (2:11)
B1 Slave Driver (4:42)
B2 Polly Ann's Hammer (3:00)
B3 Lavi Difisil (2:30)
B4 Blood And Bones (4:45)
B5 Music And Joy (3:19)
B6 You're Not Alone (5:36)
[Credits]
Rhiannon Giddens (banjo/handclaps/vocals) Amythyst Kiah (guitar/banjo/vocals) Leyla McCalla (guitar/banjo/cello/vocals) Allison Russell (guitar/banjo/vocals) Dirk Powell (guitar/banjo/fiddle)
[Notes]
Songs of Our Native Daughters shines new light on African-American women's stories of struggle, resistance, and hope. Pulling from and inspired by 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century sources, including slave narratives and early minstrelsy, kindred banjo players Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell reinterpret and create new works from old ones. With unflinching, razor-sharp honesty, they confront sanitized views about America’s history of slavery, racism, and misogyny from a powerful, black female perspective. These songs call on the persistent spirits of the daughters, mothers, and grandmothers who have fought for justice – in large, public ways – only now being recognized, and in countless domestic ways that will most likely never be acknowledged. 52 minutes, 36-page booklet with lyrics. Note: LP versions omit the track "Better Git Yer Learnin."

Home: Billy Strings

Rounder Records 1166100637

Format: 2×Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 27 Sep 2019
Genre: Jazz, Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 Taking Water (4:08)
A2 Must Be Seven (3:28)
A3 Running (2:57)
A4 Away From the Mire (7:43)
B1 Home (7:36)
B2 Watch It Fall (4:37)
B3 Long Forgotten Dream (4:29)
C1 Highway Hypnosis (5:08)
C2 Enough to Leave (3:45)
C3 Hollow Heart (2:35)
C4 Love Like Me (2:53)
D1 Everything's the Same (2:54)
D2 Guitar Peace (4:16)
D3 Freedom (2:34)
[Credits]
Billy Strings (guitar/banjo/vocals) Billy Failing (banjo/vocals) Royal Masat (bass/vocals) Jarrod Walker (mandolin/vocals) Molly Tuttle (vocals)
Cover Artist: Sean Williams, Designer: Bill Orner, Photographer: Jesse Faatz
[Notes]
Home begins with 30 seconds of down-tempo guitar arpeggio and fiddle birdsong. It ends with the full quartet — Billy Strings (guitar), Billy Failing (banjo), Royal Massat (upright bass), and Jarrod Walker (mandolin) — crashing through a cover of Bill Monroe's "Big Sandy River." In between, there’s an hour of bluegrass played with a 27-year-old's intensity, a hearty dose of psychedelia, and undeniable star appeal. Born William Apostol, Strings has it all: incomparable chops, powerful vocals, and songwriting smarts.

Memories And Moments: Tim O'Brien And Darrell Scott

Full Skies Records

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2013
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Country
[Tracklist]
01 Time To Talk To Joseph (4:13)
02 It All Comes Down To Love (3:29)
03 Keep Your Dirty Lights On (3:26)
04 Brother Wind (5:00)
05 Memories And Moments (3:36)
06 Paradise (4:52)
07 Just One More (2:16)
08 Fiddler Jones (5:01)
09 The Well (3:23)
10 Alone And Forsaken (4:05)
11 You Don't Own Me (3:48)
12 Angel's Blue Eyes (3:31)
13 Free Again (4:30)
14 On Life's Other Side (4:01)
[Notes]
Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott have teamed up again for their first collaboration since Real Time (2000). And what good news that is, because their new album, Memories and Moments, oozes class. It is country/bluegrass/Americana – file it as you like – of the finest order, and the pair contribute five original songs. They also offer some stimulating covers, not least of Hank Williams's Alone and Forsaken. Scott (from Kentucky) and O'Brien (from West Virginia) are both skillful multi-instrumentalists and their voices and playing gel naturally, with nuance and feeling. The album sounds fresh – it was recorded in only three days – and includes the powerful environmental song Keep Your Dirty Lights On, the album's sole joint composition. To complement that track, they also offer a moving version of Paradise, John Prine's magnificent song about strip-mining ("the coal company come with the world's largest shovel") which features the peerless Prine on vocals and guitar. They also cover Just One More, the mournful drinking song by George Jones, who was himself an alcoholic.

Songs of the Suffragettes: Elizabeth Knight

Folkways Records‎– FH 5281

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1958
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Columbia's Daughters (2:31)
A2 Uncle Sam's Wedding (1:24)
A3 Keep Woman in Her Sphere (2:17)
A4 Let Us All Speak Our Minds (1:35)
A5 The Taxation Tyranny (1:46)
A6 The Promised Land (2:45)
A7 The Suffrage Flag (1:49)
A8 Winning The Vote (2:56)
B1 Give the Ballot to the Mothers (1:13)
B2 Song of Wyoming (2:25)
B3 Going to the Polls (0:55)
B4 Where Are Your Boys Today! (4:38)
B5 The Yellow Ribbon (1:32)
B6 Hallelujah Song (2:24)
B7 Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be! (1:58)
B8 The New America (1:50)
[Credits]
Elizabeth Knight (piano/vocals) Sol Julty (guitar)
Artwork: Ronald Clyne, Liner Notes: Irwin Silber
[Notes]
It is hard to believe in modern times that the issue of women's suffrage once wracked the nation. Riots, demonstrations, and indignant editorials highlight the history of this long battle that finally ended in 1920 with the 19th Amendment. Liner notes by Irwin Silber include a brief history of the suffrage movement, lyrics and background on the 16 tracks, and black-and-white political cartoons.

The Fields of November / Old And New: Norman Blake

Flying Fish‎– FF70004

Format: CD, Album, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1992
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass, Folk
[Tracklist]
The Fields Of November
01 Green Leaf Fancy
02 Last Train From Poor Valley
03 White Oak Stomp
04 Graycoat Soldiers
05 Southern Railroad Blues
06 Lord Won't You Help Me
07 Krazy Kurtis
08 Coming Down From Rising Fawn
09 Uncle
10 The Old Brown Case
11 The Fields Of November

Flying Fish‎– FF70004

Old And New
12 Widow's Creek
13 Bristol In The Bottle
14 Billy Gray
15 Forked Deer
16 Cuckoo's Nest
17 Witch Of The Wave
18 My Old Home On The Green Mountainside
19 Miller's Reel
20 Dry Grass On The High Fields
21 Harvey's Reel
22 The Railroad Days
23 Valley Head
24 Sweet Heaven
25 Ajimina
26 Flat Rock
[Credits]
Norman Blake (guitar/fiddle/dobro/mandolin/vocals) Charlie Collins (guitar/fiddle) Robert Arthur "Tut" Taylor (dobro) Nancy Short (cello)
[Notes]
The Fields of November is an album of American guitarist Norman Blake, released in 1974. It was reissued in 1992 by Flying Fish along with Old and New as a double CD. Blake later married Nancy Short, who plays cello on this release. They would release a number of duet albums throughout the years.

Back Home In Sulphur Springs: Norman & Nancy Blake

Smithsonian Folkways PLECT012112

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2006
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
01 More Good Woman Gone Wrong (3:13)
02 Columbus Stockade Blues (3:22)
03 He's Coming To Us Dead (2:59)
04 The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee (3:33)
05 We Parted By The Riverside (3:55)
06 Ella Ree (3:36)
07 Happy Little Home In Arkansas (3:10)
08 Back Home In Sulphur Springs (3:22)
09 The Mermaid (5:23)
10 Take Home Poor Julia (4:33)
11 Seaboard Airline Rag (2:50)
12 Star Spangled Banner (1:57)
13 The Empress Of Ireland (3:35)
14 Katy Cline (3:22)
15 Don't Be Afraid Of The Neo-Cons (4:23)
[Cerdits]
Norman Blake (guitar/dobro/fiddle/mandolin/vocals) Nancy Blake (guitar/cello/vocals)
Engineers: Butch Hause and David Glasser, Photographer and Designer: Donald Kallaus, Liner Notes: Scott O'Malley
[Notas]
Norman and Nancy Blake's Back Home in Sulphur Springs was named in reference both to Norman's classic 1972 debut Home in Sulphur Springs, and to the Alabama town where Blake spent his childhood, learned guitar from his grandmother, and first heard hillbilly records on his neighbor's Victrola record player. Presented here are fourteen old-time country selections, mostly traditional, performed in the Blakes' characteristically non-pretentious, authentic, and heartfelt style. Underscoring this, the tracks were recorded with minimal playback and are presented in the order of recording, giving the sense of a live performance.

Take Me Back to the Range: Selections from Western Jubilee Recording Company

Smithsonian Folkways WJRC019876

Format: CD, Album
Country: USA
Released: 2020
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Cowboy, Western
[Tracklist]
01 Take Me Back to the Range: Peter Rowan & Don Edwards (4:12)
02 The Sunny Side of Life: Norman Blake & Nancy Blake (3:19)
03 Where Horses Are Heroes: Wylie & the Wild West (3:19)
04 Typical: Waddie Mitchell (1:11)
05 Annie Laurie / Bad Half Hour: Don Edwards, Waddie Mitchell & the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (5:45)
06 Hallie Lonigan: Katy Moffatt (4:31)
07 Santa Rosa Serenade: Rich O'Brien (4:00)
08 Rooster Poem: Georgie Sicking (0:45)
09 Bonnie Dundee / Fareweel Tae Tarwathie / The Railroad Corral: David Wilkie & Cowboy Celtic (3:25)
10 Flop-Eared Mule: Norman Blake & Rich O'Brien (4:05)
11 Coyotes: Don Edwards (4:31)
12 Waddie-ism-8: Waddie Mitchell (0:18)
13 Summer Ranges: Michael Martin Murphey (3:33)
14 Two Miles to Town: Cowboy Nation (4:12)
15 Lupus #1: Tom Morrell (2:54)
16 Harsh Words: Waddie Mitchell (0:58)
17 Cloverdale Plantation March: Norman Blake (4:30)
18 From Whence Came the Cowboy: Sons of the San Joaquin (4:22)
[Credits]
Compilers: Scott O'Malley and Fred Knittel, Liner Notes: Jeff Place and Carla Borden, Cover Artwork: William Mathews and Bob Moline - Cover Artwork, Designer: Darryl Norsen, Mastering Engineer: Pete Reiniger
[Notes]
The Western Jubilee Recording Company is a small label with an exceptional catalog of authentic cowboy music and poetry. Founded in 1996 by Scott O’Malley, Western Jubilee has been based out of a former warehouse of the Santa Fe Railroad in Colorado Springs that doubles as an intimate concert space and recording studio. Its walls adorned with Western paraphernalia, the warehouse, much like the label itself, served as a sanctuary to the deep-rooted and ever-evolving traditions of Western music and folklife. Take Me Back to the Range: Selections from Western Jubilee Recording Company shows the label in its full breadth. From the old-time tunes and historic songs by Norman Blake and Don Edwards to Buckaroo poems from Waddie Mitchell, from Hollywood-styled "Singing Cowboy" songs from Sons of the San Joaquin to the pioneering fusion from the punk-inspired Cowboy Nation, this 18-track compilation, produced to celebrate the label’s acquisition by Smithsonian Folkways, showcases the diversity of sound and voices in cowboy music and poetry, honoring the label that has championed it.

Radio Station WNEW's Story Of Selma

Folkways Records - FH 5595

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1965
Genre: Non-Music, Folk, World, & Country
Style: African American Spoken, American History, Struggle & Protest
[Tracklist]
A1 Hold On: The Freedom Voices & Pete Seeger (2:55)
A2 We've Got A Rope That's A Berlin Wall: The Freedom Voices (2:10)
A3 I Love Everybody: The Freedom Voices & Pete Seeger (3:32)
A4 Pick 'Em Up And Lay 'Em Down : The Freedom Voices & Len Chandler (3:27)
A5 If You Want To Get Your Freedom : The Freedom Voices & Pete Seeger (1:05)
A6 Yankee Doodle (Wallace Said We Couldn't March): The Freedom Voices & Len Chandler (0:41)
A7 Oh Wallace: The Freedom Voices & Pete Seeger (2:52)
A8 Which Side Are You On?: The Freedom Voices & Len Chandler (4:21)
B1 Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round: The Freedom Voices & Pete Seeger (1:30)
B2 Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round (Chorus): The Freedom Voices (4:34)
B3 Do What The Spirits Say Do: The Freedom Voices & Len Chandler (2:26)
B4 Do What The Spirits Say Do (At Montgomery): The Freedom Voices & Len Chandler (5:14)
B5 Chant For Freedom: Len Chandler & Pete Seeger (1:33)
B6 Murder On The Roads Of Alabama: Len Chandler (4:02)
[Notes]
Starting with 3200 people in Selma, Alabama and ending in Montgomery, Alabama with 25,000, the Selma-to-Montgomery March is considered to have "...represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement." For some, "...the best and most lasting evidence of [the spirit of the event] was to be found in the songs that evolved from the march." This collection of songs was compiled by Pete Seeger, Len Chandler, and the Freedom Voices. It represents one of the most powerful tools behind this movement-song.

Step By Step: Lesley Riddle

Rounder ROUCD 0299

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1993
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country, Country Blues
[Tracklist]
01 Little School Girl (2:25)
02 Frisco Blues (2:35)
03 Broke And Weary Blues (3:00)
04 Hilltop Blues (2:05)
05 Motherless Children (2:40)
06 Titanic (3:00)
07 I'm Out On The Ocean A-Sailing (2:51)
08 I'm Working On A Building (2:05)
09 I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome (3:45)
10 Red River Blues (3:20)
11 One Kind Favor (3:55)
12 If You See My Saviour (2:35)
13 The Cannon Ball (2:40)
14 Step By Step (3:18)
[Credits]
Lesley Riddle (guitar/piano/vocals) Mike Seeger (autoharp – tracks: 14)
Liner Notes: Barry O'Connell, Recorder and Editor: Mike Seeger
[Notes]
AllMusic Review by Thom Owens: "Step by Step" Lesley Riddle Meets the Carter Family: Blues, Country and Sacred Songs contains several field recordings Mike Seeger made of guitarist/vocalist Lesley Riddle between 1965 and 1978. The music on the disc not only showcases Riddle's considerable talent, it also demonstrates that there wasn't much of a gap between blues, folk, country and mountain music.

Autoharp As Played By Mother Maybelle Carter

Sears 688S-1711

Format: Vinyl, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1965
Genre: Non-Music, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Education
[Tracklist]
A1 Untitled
A2 Untitled
B1 Untitled
[Credits]
Mother Maybelle Carter (voice)
Editor: Dr. Nat T. Winston, Jr., Narrator: Dr. Walter Duda
[Notes]
This is an instructional record meant to accompany a written manual on playing autoharp. Track A1 begins with the tune "Red River Valley" on solo autoharp, and then introduces Mother Maybelle Carter, Dr. Walter Duda (editor), and Nat T. Winston, Jr. (narrator), all in their own voices. Track A2 teaches tuning of the autoharp. Track B teaches playing "Red River Valley" on autoharp in the style of Mother Maybelle Carter.

Blake & Rice

Rounder Records CD 0233

Format: CD, Album
Country: USA & Canada
Released: 1992
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
01 New Chance Blues (2:15)
02 Green Light On The Southern (3:43)
03 I'm Not Sayin' (2:16)
04 Texas Gales (3:38)
05 Ridge Road Gravel (2:25)
06 Monroe's Hornpipe (2:14)
07 Last Train From Poor Valley (3:32)
08 New River Train (3:25)
09 Stoney Point (2:11)
10 Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar (3:32)
11 Little Beggarman/Gilderoy (3:05)
12 The Shipyard Apprentice (4:13)
13 Medley: Fiddler's Dram/Whiskey Before Breakfast (4:40)
14 I'm Comin' Back But I Don't Know When (2:43)
[Credits]
Norman Blake (guitar/mandolin/vocals) Tony Rice (guitar/vocals)
Recorder and Photographer: Bill Wolf, Engineer: George Horn
[Nptes]
Like consummate musicians, for their first album together Norman Blake and Tony Rice largely ignored flash and speed in favor of songs and mood. There is some exceptional flatpicking here, but even the more manic passages are tempered by a softness that is striking, and perhaps even a little disappointing, in its modesty. Once the listener gets past the desire to hear hardcore chops, though, the album reveals its full beauty, especially in Blake's gorgeous "Last Train From Poor Valley" and Rice's cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "I'm Not Sayin'." Perky fiddle tune medleys and bluegrass standards provide some balance, but this is gentle listening throughout. - AllMusic Review by Jim Smith

That's Why We're Marching: World War II and the American Folksong Movement

Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40021

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1996
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
01 Freedom Road: Josh White (2:20)
02 Talking Sailor (Talking Merchant Marine): Woody Guthrie (3:03)
03 The Ballad of October 16: Almanac Singers (2:49)
04 Billy Boy: Almanac Singers (2:23)
05 Plow Under: Almanac Singers (2:27)
06 I'm Gonna Put My Name Down: Tom Glazer (3:04)
07 What are We Waiting On?: Woody Guthrie (2:09)
08 Citizen C.I.O.: The Union Boys (2:31)
09 The Sinking of the Reuben James: Woody Guthrie (3:01)
10 You Better Get Ready: The Union Boys (2:32)
11 If You Want to Do Your Part: Lead Belly (2:56)
12 Move Into Germany: The Union Boys (3:00)
13 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You: Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston (2:47)
14 The Martins and the Coys: The Union Boys (3:01)
15 Hitler Song: Lead Belly (4:34)
16 Sally Don't You Grieve: Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston (2:25)
17 Jimmy Longhi Story: Vincent "Jimmy" Longhi (6:05)
18 When the Yanks Go Marching In: Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, and Sonny Terry (2:46)
19 Round and Round Hitler's Grave: Almanac Singers (1:10)
20 Fuhrer: Josh White (3:11)
21 Miss Pavlichencko: Woody Guthrie (2:30)
22 National Defense Blues: Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Willie Smith & George Foster (3:14)
23 Gee, But I Want to Go Home (Army Life): Lead Belly (1:47)
24 Looking for a Home: Pete Seeger (3:10)
25 Now That's It's All Over (He'll Go Back to Selling Shoes): Pete Seeger (2:10)
[Credits]
Producer and Liner Notes: Guy Logsdon and Jeff Place, Recorder: Moses Asch, Mastering Engineer: David Glasser
[Notes]
Artists include Woody Guthrie, Almanac Singers, Lead Belly, Tom Glazer, Cisco Houston, Pete Seeger, Josh White, Burl Ives, and others. Few people have heard these songs composed and sung from 1940 to 1945 by artists primarily known for their influence on American folk music after 1945. Both the protest songs and the pro-war songs are assembled for the first time in this historic compilation; they present the conflicts, the hopes, and the way songs were used to raise morale during World War II. 25 tracks, including Mr. Hitler, Talking Sailor, Ballad of October 16, and Sinking of the Reuben James. Notes include artist biographies and bibliography. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon. "A great slice of history...also a great musical performance." — Daily News

Long Ways To Travel: The Unreleased Folkways Masters 1944-1949: Woody Guthrie

Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40046

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1994
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
01 Hard Travelin' (2:13)
02 Talking Centralia (3:24)
03 Farmer-Labor Train (2:49)
04 Harriet Tubman's Ballad (6:31)
05 Warden In The Sky (2:46)
06 Train Narration (2:29)
07 Seattle To Chicago (3:03)
08 Rain Crow Bill (2:38)
09 Along In The Sun And The Rain (2:28)
10 Budded Roses (3:02)
11 Train Ride Medley (Part 1) (6:32)
12 Girl I Left Behind Me (2:14)
13 Wiggledy Giggledy (1:10)
14 Kissin' On (2:58)
15 Rocky Mountain Slim And Desert Rat Shorty (3:07)
16 Train Ride Medley (Part 2) (4:39)
17 Long Ways To Travel (2:35)
[Credits]
Woody Guthrie (guitar/harmonica/vocals) Cisco Houston (guitar/vocals) Sonny Terry (harmonica) Butch Hawes (guitar) Bess Lomax Hawes (mandolin)
Producer and Liner Notes: Guy Logsdon and Jeff Place, Recorder: Moses Asch, Mastering Engineer: Joe Gastwirt
[Notes]
These 17 powerful songs by Guthrie, some sung with his comrade Cisco Houston, were carefully selected from dozens of unreleased Guthrie masters. Extensively annotated by fellow Oklahoman and Guthrie scholar Guy Logsdon, this collection reaffirms Guthrie's unique place in American music. Includes Harriet Tubman's Ballad, Along in the Sun and the Rain, and Talking Centralia. Compliled by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon. "The breadth of Guthrie's ability to entertain and enrapture his audience is clearly represented on these 17 tracks." — Sing Out

On The Banks Of The Old Tennessee: Mr. & Mrs. J.W.Baker

Victor 20863-A

Recorded on August 3rd, 1927. Bristol, Tennessee (Bristol Sessions)
Flora Harris Baker (autoharp/vocals) J.W.Baker (guitar) J.E.Green (fiddle) J.H.Holbrook (banjo)

I Wasn't Born To Rock'n Roll: Roland White 1976

Tompkins Square TSQ-2400

Format: CD, Reissue, Album
Country: US
Released: 2010
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
01 Kansas City Railroad Blues (1:37)
02 The Storms Are On The Ocean (3:40)
03 I'm Head Over Heels In Love With You (2:47)
04 Door Step Of Trouble (3:17)
05 If I Should Wander Back Tonight (2:47)
06 Texas Gales (1:28)
07 I Saw Your Face In The Moon (2:56)
08 Prisoner's Song (3:44)
09 Marathon (7:38)
     Love Come Home
     Nine Pound Hammer
     Shackles And Chains
     Live And Let Live
     Doin' My Time
     Sitting On Top Of The World
10 Same Old Blues Again (2:45)
11 Powder Creek (2:30)
12 Can't You Hear Me Calling (2:56)
13 She's Her Own Special Baby 2:22)
[Credits]
Roland White (mandolin/vocals) Alan Munde (banjo/guitar) Kenny Wertz (guitar/vocals) Dave Ferguson (fiddle) Roger Bush (bass)
[Notes]
Mandolinist Roland White is a bluegrass lifer. As a youth, he rounded up his siblings, including younger brother Clarence, to start the Kentucky Colonels, who helped spearhead the West Coast bluegrass revival in the ‘60s. Guitar hero Clarence went on to make country-rock with the Byrds, while Roland played with legends like Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt, as well as Country Gazette and the Nashville Bluegrass Band. But while White has released a few latter-day solo albums, his 1976 outing, I Wasn't Born to Rock ‘n Roll, remained in the shadowy world of lost vinyl for 34 years before finally being reissued. It's a solidly old-school effort, where White takes on tunes like Flatt & Scruggs' "If I Should Wander Back Tonight" and the Carter Family's "The Storms Are on the Ocean," as well as an epic-length (for bluegrass, anyway) medley entitled "Marathon," which includes pieces of everything from Jimmie Davis' "Shackles & Chains" to Merle Travis' "Nine Pound Hammer." There's a fresh, spontaneous feel to it all that's absent from too much 21st century bluegrass; while White never goes for any showy licks, he sings and plays with what sounds like every ounce of his heart and soul. He was on the front lines alongside some of the men who invented bluegrass, and he doesn't treat these trad tunes like museum pieces, but rather like urgent messages about the raw emotions at the center of American roots music. Of course, he probably felt closest to the lone original tune here, the minor-key instrumental "Powder Creek," written in the ‘60s with Clarence, who was killed when both brothers were hit by a car in 1973. -- AllMusic Review by James Allen

Pack Up Your Sorrows: The Bergerfolk

Folkways Records FTS-32420

Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1978
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Pack Up Your Sorrows (2:20)
A2 Until It's Time For You To Go (3:25)
A3 Times Are Gettin' Hard Boys (2:20)
A4 Handsome Molly (2:00)
A5 Loving Hannah (3:00)
A6 Jesse James (2:01)
A7 Roll On Columbia (2:30)
A8 The Rivers Of Texas (3:10)
B1 Banks Of The Ohio (4:00)
B2 Ode To America (1:40)
B3 Universal Soldier (2:35)
B4 Fair Beauty Bride (2:00)
B5 Three White Gulls (2:25)
B6 This Land Is Your Land (3:05)
B7 The Old Man´s Courtship (2:00)
B8 Amazing Grace (3:12)
[Credits]
Steve (banjo), Phoebe, Claudia, Jennifer Anne, Margaret Louise, Jonathan Glenn and Emily-Kate Berger
[Notes]
In 1978, the folk singing family band The Bergerfolk recorded their fourth and final album for Folkways. Steve and Phoebe Berger, along with four of their children, perform their interpretation of 16 traditional and modern folk songs. The Bergerfolk open with Richard Farina’s "Pack Up Your Sorrows" and close with the 18th-century hymn "Amazing Grace." In between are traditional folk songs such as "Banks of the Ohio" and "Jessie James," and songs written by Woody Guthrie ("Roll On, Columbia" and "This Land Is Your Land") and by Buffy Sainte-Marie ("Until It’s Time for You to Go" and "Universal Soldier"). Lyrics, songwriting credits, and instrumentation for all tracks are included in the liner notes.

When the Work's All Done This Fall: Ernest V. Stoneman 1926

Edison Blue Amberol: 5188 / Edison Record: 11054

Dubbed from Edison Diamond Disc matrix 11054.
Year of release from Blue Amberol records: a discography, 1912-1929 / Allan Sutton, 2005.
Special Coll., Performing Arts Cylinder 8115
Durable URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder8115

Ron Turner

Folkways Records FW-33583

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1973
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Rollin' to the Border (3:17)
A2 The Bold Desperado (3:50)
A3 Leavin' You Behind (2:31)
A4 The Lily of the West (2:55)
A5 The Katy (3:31)
B1 Meet Me in the Roadhouse (Tonight) (2:59)
B2 Darlin' Billie (3:00)
B3 The Hills of Tennessee (3:36)
B4 Foggy Mountain Blues (2:36)
B5 Annie's Alley (2:19)
B6 The Ballad of Bill Guthrie (4:52)
[Credits]
Ron Turner (guitar/vocals)
Photographer: Jolly Robinson, Designer: Ronald Clyne
[Notes]
Modern country troubadour Ron Turner recorded his only album in 1973. These 11 original songs tinged with a western music flavor range in subject matter from traveling ("Rollin' to the Border" and "The Hills of Tennessee") and bad men ("The Bold Desperado") to trains ("The Katy") and the trials of romance ("Leavin' You Behind" and "Meet Me at the Roadhouse"). Turner closes with "The Ballad of Bill Guthrie," a song about Woody Guthrie's oldest son. The liner notes consist of a short story, but no recording information.

Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW-40235

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: May 29, 2020
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Old Time
[Tracklist]
01 Double File (1:26)
02 Handsome Molly (2:08)
03 He's Coming to Us Dead (2:50)
04 Corrina (2:26)
05 Brown's Dream (1:44)
06 Groundhog (Blind Lemon's version) (2:40)
07 My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains (2:30)
08 Bonaparte's Retreat (1:53)
09 Willie Moore (3:57)
10 The Blue Ridge Mountain Blues (2:58)
11 Goin' Back to Jericho (2:09)
12 Billy in the Low Ground (1:35)
13 Reuben's Train (2:37)
14 The Dream of the Miner's Child (3:23)
15 Groundhog (F.O.T.M. version) (2:09)
[Credits]
Doc Watson (guitar/vocals) Gaither Carlton (fiddle/banjo)
[Notes]
Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton is a new album of old-time music produced from archival recordings by two legendary musicians. These largely unheard tapes were recorded at Doc Watson's two earliest concerts, presented at Blind Lemon's, Greenwich Village, New York City on October 12th and 18th in 1962. Those shows were among the rare appearances Doc's father-in-law, fiddler Gaither Carlton, made outside of North Carolina. The instrumental pieces, including Gaither's signature tune "Double File," include intricate musical interactions developed through years of family music-making. On the songs and ballads, Doc's instantly recognizable baritone voice is accompanied by his own guitar and Gaither's fiddle, or by the traditional combination of fiddle and banjo. Shortly after these recordings were made, Doc Watson embarked on a career as one of America's premier acoustic guitarists, earning the National Medal of Arts and eight Grammy Awards.

The Wild and Reckless Hobo: Cowan Powers 1926

Edison Blue Amberol: 5131 / Edison Record: 10624

Dubbed from Edison Diamond Disc matrix 10624.
Special Coll., Performing Arts Cylinder 1395
Durable URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder1395
Photo (L-R) Charlie, Ada, Opha Lou, and father Fiddlin' Cowan Powers.

Hand Me Down My Walking Cane: Ernest V. Stoneman 1927

Edison Blue Amberol: 5297 / Edison Record: 11481

Ernest V. Stoneman (guitar/harmonica/vocals) Bolen Frost (banjo) Kahle Brewer (fiddle)
Edison Blue Amberol: 5297. Dubbed from Edison Diamond Disc matrix 11481.
Year of release from Blue Amberol records: a discography, 1912-1929 / Allan Sutton, 2005.
Special Coll., Performing Arts Cylinder 7362

My Old Kentucky Home: Edison Male Quartette 1902

Edison Gold Moulded Record: 2223

Notes:	An established title from the brown wax series (1896-1901)
	made over by the gold moulded process
	Year of release from "Edison Cylinder Records, 1889 - 1912" by Allen Koenigsberg, second edition (1987)
Collection:	Todd collection
Personal Name:	Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Subjects:	Popular music 1901-1910 Vocal quartets
Original Item:	Special Coll., Performing Arts Cylinder 2488
Durable URL:	http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder2488

Old Time Banjo Project

Elektra EKS-7276

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1964
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass, Folk
[Tracklist]
A01 Old Molly Hare (1:51)
A02 John Booker (2:01)
A03 Ramblin' Hood (1:19)
A04 Old Jimmy Sutton (2:36)
A05 Brighter Day (1:39)
A06 Waterbound (2:26)
A07 Chicken Reel (1:25)
A08 Pateroller Song (1:18)
A09 Johnson & Dixon (2:48)
A10 Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (1:02)
A11 Skillet Good And Greasy (2:11)
A12 Reuben's Train (1:27)
B01 Mississippi Swayer (1:50)
B02 Spanish Fandango (0:52)
B03 Bill Mason (2:33)
B04 Colored Atristocracy (1:42)
B05 Soldier's Joy (1:13)
B06 John Johanna (3:18)
B07 John Henry (1:13)
B08 Don't You Cry Melinda (2:36)
B09 Banging Breakdown (0:58)
B10 I Don't Reckon That'll Happen (2:31)
B11 Last Chance (1:17)
B12 Paddie On The Turnpike (2:23)
[Credits]
John Cohen (banjo/guitar/vocals) Allan Block (fiddle/vocals) Bob Siggins (banjo/vocals) Peter Siegel (banjo/vocals) Bill Vanaver (banjo) Hank Schwartz (banjo) Winnie Winston (banjo) Ralph Smith (harmonica/dulcimer) Walter Gundy (harmonica) Penny Cohen (guitar) Rory Block (guitar) Eric Thompson (guitar) Jerome Martin (artwork)
[Notes]
Rare album featuring John Cohen, Hank Schwartz, Peter Siegel, Bob Siggins, Bill Vanaver, and Winnie Winston. This is an unplayed first pressing mono on the gold label, and other than a cut out hole bottom left corner and the barely visible residue from a price tag on the back.

Ry Cooder: My Name Is Buddy

Nonesuch 79961-2

CD, Album, Hardbound
Country: US
Released: 2007
Genre: Latin, Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country Blues, Country, Folk
[Tracklist]
01 Suitcase In My Hand (2:54)
02 Cat And Mouse (5:03)
03 Strike! (5:08)
04 J. Edgar (2:38)
05 Footprints In The Snow (3:07)
06 Sundown Town (2:57)
07 Green Dog (7:34)
08 The Dying Truck Driver (4:56)
09 Christmas In Southgate (3:28)
10 Hank Williams (4:09)
11 Red Cat Till I Die (3:08)
12 Three Chords And The Truth (5:02)
13 My Name Is Buddy (3:13)
14 One Cat, One Vote, One Beer (4:16)
15 Cardboard Avenue (4:34)
16 Farm Girl (3:55)
17 There's A Bright Side Somewhere (4:49)
[Credits]
Ry Cooder (guitar/Keyboards/mandolin/bass/vocals) Mike Seeger (banjo/fiddle/harmonica/jew's Harp) Roland White (mandolin/vocals) Van Dyke Parks (piano) Pete Seeger (fiddle) Flaco Jiménez (accordion) Paddy Moloney (whistle/uilleann pipes) Lefty Mouse (fiddle) Buddy Red Cat (guitar/vocals) Jon Hassell (trumpet) René Camacho (bass) Mike Elizondo (bass) Joachim Cooder (drums/percussion/tambourine) Bobby King, Terry Evans & Juliette Commagere (vocals)
Producer: Ry Cooder & Aisha Ayers, Engineers: Sunny D. Levine, Martin Pradler & Don Smith
[Notes]
'My Name Is Buddy', record by Ry Cooder is the thirteenth studio album by Ry Cooder. It is the second social-political concept album by Ry Cooder. Cooder has described it as the second in a trilogy that began with Chávez Ravine and concluded with I, Flathead. The album is packaged in a small booklet that includes a brief story and drawing to accompany each song. Both the songs and the stories relate tales from the viewpoint of the characters, Buddy Red Cat, Lefty Mouse, and Reverend Tom Toad. The liner notes ask listeners/readers to join them as they "Journey through time and space in days of labor, big bosses, farm failures, strikes, company cops, sundown towns, hobos, and trains... the America of yesteryear." -- Wikipedia

Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys: Live Recordings 1956-1969

Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40063

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 1993
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
01 Watermelon Hanging On The Vine (0:37)
02 Roanoke (1:19)
03 Brakeman's Blues (2:40)
04 Close By (2:26)
05 Kentucky Waltz (2:26)
06 Blue Grass Stomp (2:10)
07 Blue Moon Of Kentucky (2:00)
08 I'm Working On A Building (1:59)
09 Angels Rock Me To Sleep (1:53)
10 Wheel Hoss (2:08)
11 Watermelon Hanging On The Vine (0:31)
12 Katy Hill (3:06)
13 True Life Blues (2:40)
14 I Live In The Past (2:41)
15 Wayfaring Stranger (4:27)
16 Fire On The Mountain (3:37)
17 Blue Grass Breakdown (3:22)
18 Raw Hide (2:52)
19 Y'All Come (0:49)
20 Cotton-Eyed Joe (2:49)
21 Get Up John (3:14)
22 White House Blues (2:01)
23 Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms (2:27)
24 Kansas City Railroad Blues (2:51)
25 The Walls Of Time (4:30)
26 When He Reached Down His Hand For Me (2:44)
27 Monroe Family Segment (9:45)
[Credits]
Bill Monroe (mandolin/vocals)
Producer & Liner Notes: Ralph Rinzler, Photographer: David Gahr & Phil Zimmerman, Mastering Engineer: Alan Yoshida
[Notes]
"Howdy, howdy folks. We're glad to be back for another show here. As we do the numbers now, we're gonna call each fellow's name out so we can get right along with the show." And what a show. Bluegrass has always been a live-performance genre, on stage or in the studio, and Bill Monroe never sounded better on stage than during these heady years of the folk revival. He had something to share and to prove to his new audience, and he wouldn't meet them halfway, choosing instead his grittiest traditional material and singing, especially in the late '50s, with full, high yodel and wail. His voice mellowed into the '60s, but his band, including many of the best bluegrass pickers ever (Bill Keith, Peter Rowan, Richard Greene, and Bobby Hicks for starters), never gave quarter. To understand Bill Monroe and his various ensembles, one needs to hear his stage brilliance, and there's no better place to start than with these warm, clear live recordings. --Roy Kasten

American Folk Song Festival: Jean Thomas, The Traipsin' Woman

Folkways Records FA-2358

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1960
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A01 Introduction: Jean Thomas (3:15)
A02 Fox Horn / Cherokee Song of Welcome (medley): George Davidson, Florence Clark (1:48)
A03 I Love My Rooster: Marieda Perkins (0:37)
A04 Lord Lovell: Lucinda Perkins (2:15)
A05 Paper of Pins: Linda Brown & Donnie Stewart (2:17)
A06 Billy Boy: Donnie Stewart & Terry Perkins (1:28)
A07 Bonnie George Campbell: Margaret Caudill Hurst & Carolyn Margaret Hurst (1:34)
A08 Paw Paw Patch: Group of children (1:39)
A09 Love of Rosanna McCoy: Dave Varney (3:16)
A10 Ballad of Peace: Dave Varney (2:16)
A11 Warning Song: Rose Dory (1:54)
A12 Cambric Shirt: Diane Tincher & Margaret Winters (0:42)
A13 Keys of Canterbury: Ray Napier & Margaret Winters (2:38)
A14 Courtin' Song (Bachelor's Song): Pleaz Mobley & Olive Mobley (2:43)
A15 Give Me One More Day: Ruby Dean & The Journeymen's Quartet (3:06)
B01 Lord, You've Been So Good to Me: Aunt Alice Williams (2:02)
B02 Barbara Ellen (Barbara Allen): Rosie Day (2:56)
B03 Sally Goodin': George Davidson (0:35)
B04 Boatin' Up Sandy: George Davidson (0:33)
B05 The Prodigal Son: Aunt Dora Harmon (2:06)
B06 Civil War March: Aunt Dora Harmon (0:56)
B07 The Squire's Daughter: Lula Curry (1:49)
B08 Hi Said the Blackbird: Pleaz Mobley (1:49)
B09 Pretty Polly: Pleaz Mobley (2:16)
B10 Turkey in the Straw: Curley Smith & Bob Ramey (1:27)
B11 I'll Never Be Lonesome in Heaven: Lula Curry (2:46)
B12 Amazing Grace: Group of singers (1:49)
B13 Down in the Valley: Group of singers (2:49)
[Credits]
Producer: Jean Thomas
[Notes]
Created in 1931, the American Folk Song Festival helped Kentucky mountain singers share their music with the world. Perhaps more relevantly, it allowed the rest of the world to hear the music of these singers, including members of the Hatfield and McCoy families. This album was recorded in the 1950s, and features singers of all ages.

The Harvesters: Pastures of Plenty and Other Songs

Folkways Records FA-2406

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1961
Genre:　Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 This Land is My Land (2:20)
A2 A Gut Morgn (1:22)
A3 Pastures of Plenty (2:36)
A4 Red Rosy Bush (1:32)
A5 Muleskinner Blues (2:01)
A6 Run Come See (2:22)
A7 The Ox-Driving Song (2:24)
A8 Mrs. McGrath (3:30)
B1 House Carpenter (2:22)
B2 Na Kone Varanom (2:01)
B3 Sinner Man (2:12)
B4 Virgin Mary (1:45)
B5 Liebster Meiner (2:09)
B6 Orcha Bamibar (2:29)
B7 Walking in Jerusalem (2:33)
B8 Que Bonita Bandera (1:33)
B9 Roll Over (0:46)
[Credits]
Ethel Raim (vocals) Joyce Bittman (guitar/vocals) Walter Raim (guitar/banjo) Ronnie Gluck (accordion/harmonica/guitar/vocals) Jerry Silverman (guitar/mandolin) Roger Horn (bass)
[Notes]
The Harvesters, a semi-professional group whose members hail from New York, recorded this album during a singing holiday in California in 1959. Here, they sing songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Spanish, as well as beloved favorites like Woody Guthrie's "This Land is My Land" and "Pastures of Plenty."

Norman Blake & Tony Rice 2

Rounder Records CD-0266

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 1990
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
01 It's Raining Here This Morning (3:37)
02 Lost Indian (3:06)
03 Georgie (2:49)
04 Father's Hall (2:17)
05 The Two Soldiers (4:35)
06 Blackberry Blossom (3:14)
07 Eight More Miles To Louisville (2:46)
08 Lincoln's Funeral Train (The Sad Journey To Springfield) (4:14)
09 Molly Bloom (2:39)
10 D-18 Song (Thank You, Mr. Martin) (3:58)
11 Back In Yonder's World (3:54)
12 Bright Days (2:14)
13 Salt Creek (3:10)
[Credits]
Norman Blake (guitar/mandolin/vocals) Tony Rice (guitar/vocals) Doc Watson (guitar) Nancy Blake (mandolin/cello/vocals) Mark Schatz (bass)
[Notes]
Norman Blake and Tony Rice 2 is an album by American guitarists Norman Blake and Tony Rice, released in 1990. It is their second album together. They previously released Blake & Rice in 1987. Doc Watson appears as a guest. Recorded at Bias Recording Co., Springfield, Virginia.

Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Country Music is a documentary miniseries produced by Ken Burns and written by Dayton Duncan that premiered on PBS on September 15, 2019. The eight-part series chronicles the history and prominence of country music in American culture.[5][6]Burns announced the miniseries in January 2014, with a projected airdate in 2018. Burns cited his ongoing work on other documentary projects as having affected progress on the series. Writer Dayton Duncan explained that the goal of the series was to demonstrate that country music "isn't and never was just one type of music. It was always this amalgam of American music and it sprang from a lot of very different roots and then, as it grew, it sprouted many different branches, but they're all connected." Burns filmed a total of 175 hours of interviews with 101 artists and other personalities for the series; some were recorded as early as 2012, and some of the interviewees (such as Little Jimmy Dickens, Roy Clark, Ralph Stanley, and Merle Haggard) died over the course of production. (Read more...)

Dock Boggs: Legendary Singer & Banjo Player

Folkways Records FA 2351

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1964
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Appalachian Music, Country Blues
[Tracklist]
A1 Down South Blues (2:11)
A2 Country Blues (3:55)
A3 Pretty Polly (2:56)
A4 Coal Creek March (1:57)
A5 My Old Horse Died (1:48)
A6 Wild Bill Jones (2:14)
A7 Rowan Country Crew (6:15)
A8 New Prisoner's Song (2:57)
B1 Oh Death (3:22)
B2 Prodigal Son (3:57)
B3 Mother's Advice (3:43)
B4 Drunkard's Lone Child (4:10)
B5 Bright Sunny South (3:41)
B6 Mistreated Mama Blues (1:55)
B7 Harvey Logan (3:33)
[Credits]
Dock Boggs (banjo/vocals)
Recorder and Editor: Mike Seeger, Liner Notes: Ralph Rinzler, Designer: A. Doyle Moore, Photographer: Dan Seeger
[Notes]
Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (1898–1971) was an old-time singer, songwriter and banjo player. His unique style of singing and banjo playing combined elements of Appalachian folk music and African-American blues. A self-taught musician, Dock recorded about eights sides of music between 1927 and 1929. The Great Depression and domestic issues sidelined his musical career until he was "rediscovered" by Mike Seeger (The New Lost City Ramblers) and encouraged to perform at the American Folk Festival in Asheville, NC in 1963. This release contains several songs from that Festival including "Oh Death" and "Country Blues," a song he had originally recorded in the 1920s.

Lucinda Williams: West

Lost Highway B0006938-02

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2007
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country Rock
[Tracklist]
01 Are You Alright? (5:18)
02 Mama You Sweet (4:44)
03 Learning How To Live (5:11)
04 Fancy Funeral (4:14)
05 Unsuffer Me (5:40)
06 Everything Has Changed (3:38)
07 Come On (4:53)
08 Where Is My Love? (5:22)
09 Rescue (5:34)
10 What If (5:41)
11 Wrap My Head Around That (9:06)
12 Words (3:32)
13 West (5:44)
[Credits]
Lucinda Williams (guitar/vocals) Bill Frisell, Doug Pettibone (guitar) Jenny Scheinman (violin) Rob Brophy (viola) Tim Loo (cello) Tony Garnier (bass) Jim Keltner (drums/percussion) Rob Burger (piano/organ/accordion)
Producer: Tom Overby and Hal Willner, Photographer: Margaret Malandruccolo, Annie Leibovitz and Alan Messer, Designer: Karen Naff
[Notes]
The title of West reflects the change in Lucinda Williams' life as she moved to Los Angeles. It also reflects what had been left behind. Williams is nothing if not a purely confessional songwriter. She continually walks in the shadowlands to bring out what is both most personal yet universal in her work, to communicate to listeners directly and without compromise. If Essence and World Without Tears took chances and stated different sides of the songwriter and her world, West jumps off the ledge into the sky of freedom, where anything can be said without worry of consequence and where anything can be said in any way she wishes. It's entirely appropriate that West was released on the day before Valentine's Day 2007, for it's a record about the heart, about its volumes of brokenness, about its acceptance of its state, and how, with the scars still visible to the bearer, it opens wider and becomes the font of love itself. But the journey is a dark one. First there's the music and the production. Williams chose Hal Willner to produce West. Williams, who'd been writing a lot, demoed some songs before she brought in Willner. He stripped down the demos but kept the scratch vocals. From there, the pair created the rest of the album together, never re-recording Williams' initial vocals. The vocals were accompanied by her guitar playing; Willner wanted her inherent phrasing and rhythmic flow. Willner also brought his own crew to play with Williams. This collaboration -- as unlikely as it might seem on the surface -- results in something utterly different and yet unmistakably Lucinda Williams. West is a warm, inviting, yet very dark record about grief, the loss of love, anger at a lover who cannot deliver, and embracing the possibility of change. In other words, it's not without its redemptive moments. Williams has put all of her qualities on display at once with an unbridled and unbowed sense of adventure here on her eighth album. She, her bandmates, and Willner have come up with exactly what pop music needs: a real work of art based in contemporary forms and feelings. West is an album that will no doubt attract more than a few new fans, and will give old ones, if they are open enough, a recording to relish. -- AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek

Hot Blast: Contemporary Songs Written and Sung by Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl

Folkways Records FW 8710

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1978
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Blast Against Blackguards (4:09)
A2 The Tenant Farmer (3:35)
A3 The Pay-Up Song (5:01)
A4 Emily (5:38)
A5 Cut Price Hero (3:15)
A6 You And I (3:05)
A7 Legal Illegal (4:13)
B1 The Invader (5:27)
B2 The Father's Song (2:23)
B3 White Wind (18:37)
[Credits]
Peggy Seeger (concertina/guitar/vocals) Ewan MacColl (vocals) Bruce Turner (clarinet) Calum MacColl (guitar/psaltery/dulcimer/bongos/tin whistle/kalimba/backing vocals) Neil MacColl (guitar/mandolin/backing vocals) Jim Carroll, Kirsty MacColl, Pat MacKenzie (backing vocals)
Photographer: Walker Evans, Designer: Ronald Clyne, Engineer: Stephen Hardy
[Notes]
Political themes run powerfully through this 1978 recording, written and performed by husband and wife Ewan MacColl (1915–1989) and Peggy Seeger (b. 1935). Songs cover apartheid, domestic abuse, and worker's rights. MacColl and Seeger point out that writing and singing political songs is an age-old tradition, and they hope that the songs on this album will be useful weapons in the arsenal of those who are "against the brutal exploitation of the working-class, against the senseless waste of human and natural resources and against the pernicious disease of racism." Liner notes include song lyrics for each of the tracks.

The Phipps Family: Faith, Love and Tragedy

Folkways Records FA 2375

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1965
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Country, Hillbilly
[Tracklist]
A1 Just Another Broken Heart (2:35)
A2 Away Over In The Promised Land (2:17)
A3 The Great Titanic (3:46)
A4 Forsaken Lover (2:28)
A5 The Red Jacket Mine Explosion (4:02)
A6 I Never Will Marry (2:31)
A7 Gonna Row My Boat (1:56)
B1 The Old Pine Tree (3:05)
B2 The Merry Golden Tree (3:05)
B3 The Unclouded Day (3:26)
B4 Charles Guiteau (2:29)
B5 My Home Among The Hills (2:25)
B6 Pearl Bryan (3:39
[Credits]
A.L.Phipps (guitar/vocals) Kathleen Phipps (autoharp/vocals) Helen Phipps (autoharp/vocals) Leemon Phipps (guitar/vocals)
Recorder and Producer: Ralph Rinzler, Sleeve Notes:Bill Vernon, Designer: Ronald Clyne, Photographer: Jim Marshall
[Notes]
Influenced by the legendary Carter Family, the Phipps Family was known for its personal yet deeply traditional style. This album includes ballads, traditional hymns, and two originals: Kathleen's "Forsaken Lover" and A. L.'s "The Red Jacket Mine Explosion."

Hermes Nye: Anglo-American Ballads

Folkways Records FA 2037

Format: Vinyl, 10", Album
Country: US
Released: 1952
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Tomorrow Is St. Valentine's Day (1:20)
A2 A North Country Maid (1:38)
A3 King Arthur Had Three Sons (2:01)
A4 Earl Richard (2:39)
A5 Greenland Fishery (1:50)
A6 Earl Of Murray (1:22)
B1 John Peel (2:18)
B2 The Mermaid (2:44)
B3 The Red Herring (2:05)
B4 The Bailiff's Daughter Of Islington (3:49)
[Credits]
Hermes Nye (guitar/vocals)
Artwork: David Stone Martin
[Notes]
Sung on record and described in liner notes with Hermes Nye's characteristic down-home humor, Anglo-American ballads on this album come from a variety of sources, from an Elizabethan torch song in Shakespeare's Hamlet to a version of "John Peel" taken from a Girl Scout songbook!

Keith Whitley: Don't Close Your Eyes

RCA 6494-2-R

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 1988
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country
[Tracklist]
01 Flying Colors (3:35)
02 It's All Coming Back To Me Now (2:45)
03 Lucky Dog (2:00)
04 Don't Close Your Eyes (4:09)
06 Some Old Side Road (3:25)
07 Would These Arms Be In Your Way (3:10)
08 I'm No Stranger To The Rain (3:33)
09 I Never Go Around Mirrors (4:24)
10 When You Say Nothing At All (3:40)
11 A Day In The Life Of A Fool (3:37)
12 Honky Tonk Heart (3:04)
[Credits]
Keith Whitley (guitar/vocals) Allen Frizzell, Curtis Young, Dennis Wilson , Emmylou Harris, Garth Fundis and Vern Gosdin (chorus) Mac McAnally, Red Lane, Billy Sanford and Brent Rowan (guitar) Dave Pomeroy and Larry Paxton (bass) Eddie Bayers and Jerry Kroon (drums) Rob Hajacos (fiddle) Mitch Humphries (keyboards) Matt Rollings (piano) Mike Lawler (synthesizer) Sonny Garrish (steel guitar) Paul Franklin (pedalboard)
[Notes]
Don't You Close Your Eyes was more successful than Keith Whitley's two previous albums and it's easy to see why. Though the record still suffered from a handful of mediocre songs and a slightly soft production, the overall album was leaner and more direct than Whitley's earlier solo work, showcasing his talent for heartfelt honky tonk singing and his skill for crafting excellent barroom ballads. "Don't Close Your Eyes," "When You Say Nothing At All," and "I'm No Stranger to the Rain" were the hits, but there's a wealth of excellent material here, including a haunting version of Lefty Frizzell's "I Never Go Around Mirrors." The sheer strength of the best numbers make the handful of weaker songs perfectly excusable. After all, country in the late '80s rarely got better than Don't You Close Your Eyes at its best. -- AllMusic Review by Thom Owens