Little Folkies: Songs for Fall

Smithsonian Folkways - SFW CD 45091

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: United States
Released: 2024
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, & Children's
[Tracklist
01 Little Grey Squirrel (03:07)
02 See the Little Spider (01:21)
03 Rocketship (01:39)
04 Look at the Colors (02:35)
05 Cooking in the Kitchen (01:39)
06 Sally Go Round the Sun (00:43)
07 Wise Old Owl (04:28)
08 Up and Down (01:00)
09 Clouds Clouds (01:41)
10 Planets (03:09)
11 When We Go Outside (02:55)
12 Listen to the Train (02:38)
13 Come Dance Around (01:35)
14 The Wind Blow East (01:49)
15 There Was a Little Mouse (00:32)
16 Horses in the Stable (02:18)
[Credits]
Little Folkies (guitar/banjo/fiddle/mandolin/rain stick/tambourine/bass/vocals)
Producer & Recorder: Irena Eide, Liner Notes Editor: James Deutsch, Illustrator: Amelia Heron, Designer: Pharis Romero, Mastering Engineer: Dirk Powell, Recorders: Robert Cheek, Jeremy D'Antonio and Mark Allen Piccolo
[Notes]
Little Folkies is a multi-award-winning early childhood folk music program for parents, teachers, and kids ages 0-5. Developed by acclaimed musician and educator Irena Eide, the curriculum features a joyful treasury of original and traditional folk songs to inspire singing and movement. Songs for Fall, the first of four seasonal volumes of music, embodies the season of transition and gathering with playful tunes about animals, the universe, and more. Whether listened to at home, in the classroom, out-of-doors, or on the move, these 16 fun-loving folk songs encourage sharing and discovery, and nurture everyone’s love of music and play.

Jerron Paxton: Things Done Changed

Smithsonian Folkways - SFW CD 40265

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: United States
Released: October 18, 2024
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Blues, & Folk
[Tracklist]
01 Things Done Changed (05:15)
02 Baby Days Blues (03:16)
03 It's All Over Now (02:48)
04 Little Zydeco (02:40)
05 So Much Weed (04:07)
06 What's Gonna Become of Me (03:49)
07 Mississippi Bottom (03:54)
08 Out in This World (04:32)
09 All and All Blues (02:36)
10 Brown Bear Blues (04:05)
11 Oxtail Blues (03:09)
12 Tombstone Disposition (03:43)
[Credits]
Jerron Paxton (guitar/banjo/bones/harmonica/piano/vocals)
Producer & Mixing Engineer: Alex Hal, Liner Notes: Carla Borden, Engineer: Tony Gillis
[Notes]
Growing up in Los Angeles, Jerron Paxton would sit with an ear by the radio, eagerly absorbing the nuances and history of Black American traditional music that connect him to his ancestral roots in the South. A songwriter, inheritor of tradition, and a walking, talking jukebox, Paxton approaches his craft with equal part wit and reverence, with a knack for leg-pulling and cracking wise. Things Done Changed is an album of original songs that sound beamed in from nearly a century ago, when jazz and blues were performed as a means of both personal and cultural survival. Lick by lick, Paxton builds a bridge between generations gone and generations to come, singing the heartaches and joys of the past and present.

CooP - Fast Folk Musical Magazine Vol. 2, No. 3, Humor in Song

Fast Folk Musical Magazine – FFSE203

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: United States
Released: 1983
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Billions of Brain Cells Ago: Left Field (02:47)
A2 Rags or Satin: The Belles of Hoboken (02:25)
A3 Another Rainy Thursday: Rich Nardin (03:09)
A4 Cold Pizza for Breakfast: Christine Lavin and Mark Dann (02:43)
A5 Without You I'd Have Never Known: Gary Robinson and Mark Dann (04:26)
A6 Nursery Rhyme: Dixon Enamel the Camel (05:01)
B1 Johnny Macaroon: David Massengill (03:13)
B2 Freshmen: Willie Nininger, Annie Nininger, Jack Hardy, Mark Dann, and Jeff Hardy (03:04)
B3 Goin'Down at Old Long Beach: Sherwood Ross and Mark Dann (02:50)
B4 Post Orifice: Hollywood Dick Doll Revue (03:15)
B5 It Was One of Those Mornings: Sheldon Biber (02:26)
B6 Herpes: Bob McGrath, Grant Orenstein, and Matt Kendricks (04:25)
[Credits]
Producer: Hardy Hardy, Recorder & Field Worker: Mark Dann
[Notes]
Fast Folk Musical Magazine continued its second year of publication with a collection of another dozen songs. Recorded live and subtitled "Humor in Song," this collection demonstrates that folk songs need not be dark and melancholy. Headlining the performances are Christine Lavin's ode to the virtues of "Cold Pizza for Breakfast"; The Belles of Hoboken's lament of urban living, "Rags or Satin"; and David Nininger's song of high school angst, "Freshmen." The a cappella performance of "Johnny Macaroon" by David Massengill, Bob McGrath's cautionary tale of "Herpes," and Sheldon Biber's poem "It Was One of Those Mornings" are also featured. A copy of The CooP is included with the collection.

Been Riding with Old Mosby

Sung by Frank Bode with Tommy Jarrell and Paul Brown

Folkways Records – FTS 31109

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: United States
Released: 1986
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, & Od Time
[Tracklist]
A1 Susanna Gal (03:00)
A2 Rank Stranger (02:18)
A3 Roving Gambler (01:52)
A4 Sugar Hill (03:45)
A5 Little Maggie (03:38)
A6 Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? (02:57)
A7 Wild Bill Jones (02:14)
B1 Precious Jewel (02:25)
B2 Piney Woods Gal (01:42)
B3 Brown's Ferry Blues (01:54)
B4 My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains (02:55)
B5 Pretty Polly (03:22)
B6 Sunny Side of the Mountain (02:18)
B7 Tempy (03:46)
[Credits]
Frank Bode (guitar/vocals) Paul Brown (banjo) Tommy Jarrell (fiddle)
Producer: Eric H. Davidson & Ellen Victoria, Designer: Ronald Clyne
[Notes]
Old-time musician Frank Bode sings and plays guitar on this 1984 album of traditional American rural music. He is joined on the recording by banjo picker Paul Brown and legendary fiddler Tommy Jarrell, who sadly passed away just four months later. From murder ballads to songs of moonshiner tales to the blues, this album attests to the richness of a rural tradition passed down from generation to generation. Liner notes include song lyrics and an introduction to each track, including its origins and how it came into the perfomers' lives.

Symbiont: Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin

Smithsonian Folkways - SFW CD 40265

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: United States
Released: September 27, 2024
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, & Electronic
[Tracklist]
01 Prelude; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin feat. Jeanne Meserve (00:50)
02 What's You Gonna Do When the World's On Fire; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (03:12)
03 No Hiding Place; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin feat. Sidy (03:19)
04 My Way's Cloudy; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin feat. Joe Rainey (03:20)
05 Mother; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (04:28)
06 Stars Beging to Fall; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin feat. Taylor Ho Bynum (03:45)
07 The Green Road; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (02:59)
08 Live Humble; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (04:16)
09 In the Garden; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (04:18)
10 Come Down Ancients; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (02:59)
11 Old Indian Hymn; Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin (03:19)
[Credits]
Producer: Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin, Liner Notes Editor: Carla Borden, Designer: Caroline Gut, Engineer: Joseph DeJarnette at Sudio 808a & Mike Monseur at Axis Audio
[Notes]
From the first notes of symbiont, the radical new collaborative album and document of Black and Indigenous futurism from Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin, the listener is met with rising tidewaters, massive droughts, and the appearance of an iconoclastic uprising amidst the world’s indifference. Questions of future or present tense swirl around the music as the duo unspools the intertwined threads of racial and climate justice. Amid rumbling synthesizer drones, the thrum of banjo, and the thwack of drum machines, a whisper of truth can be heard: this crisis has been unfolding for centuries.