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

Country Music - Ken Burns from Fanny country girl on Vimeo.

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

Lucinda Williams: Ramblin'

Smithsonian Folkways CD SF 40042

Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country: USA & Canada
Released: 2005
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Country Blues
[Tracklist]
01 Ramblin' On My Mind (2:30)
02 Me And My Chauffeur (3:12)
03 Motherless Children (3:31)
04 Malted Milk Blues (2:29)
05 Disgusted (2:28)
06 Jug Band Music (2:22)
07 Stop Breakin' Down (3:20)
08 Drop Down Daddy (3:23)
09 Little Darling Pal Of Mine (2:59)
10 Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor (3:50)
11 Jambalaya (On The Bayou) (3:05)
12 Great Speckled Bird (2:55)
13 You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion (3:07)
14 Satisfied Mind (4:06)
[Credits]
Lucinda Williams (12-string guitar/vocals) John Grimaudo (guitar)
Producer: Tom Royals, Liner Notes: John Morthland, Designer: Carol Hardy, Engineer: Gerald "Wolf" Stephenson, Malcolm Addey and Matt Walters
[Notes]
Recorded at Malaco Studios, Jackson, MS, Sept. 1978. The first recordings from an artist with a gift for interpreting original blues from Robert Johnson to Memphis Minnie to The Carter Family. Williams’s unmistakable sound is powerfully direct and filled with melancholy and passion. 43 minutes. "The quintessential recording of Lucinda Williams.... An unbelievably soulful...vocalist." — Montana State University Exponent "The quintessential recording of Lucinda Williams.... An unbelievably soulful...vocalist."-- Montana State University Exponent

Roscoe Holcomb: An Untamed Sense of Control

Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40144

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2003
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Appalachian Music, Country Blues
[Credits]
01 Swanno Mountain (3:18)
02 Across The Rocky Mountain (5:23)
03 Graveyard Blues (3:01)
04 Single Girl (3:02)
05 Little Maggie (3:02)
06 Born And Raised In Covington (2:16)
07 Barbara Allen Blues (1:30)
08 Coal Creek (1:31)
09 Rock Island Prison (1:35)
10 I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (3:00)
11 Combs Hotel Burned Down (2:32)
12 The Hills Of Mexico (2:33)
13 Knife Guitar (1:17)
14 Mississippi Heavy Water Blues (2:16)
15 Coney Isle (1:51)
16 Train That Carried My Girl From Town (2:02)
17 Milk Cow Blues (2:08)
18 Black Eye Susie (1:15)
19 Darling Cory (3:40)
20 I Ain't Got No Sugar Baby Now (2:50)
21 Sitting On Top Of This World (2:42)
22 Frankie And Johnnie (5:11)
23 Foggy Mountain Top (1:52)
24 Fair Miss In The Garden (3:53)
25 Willow Garden (3:27)
26 True Love (6:24)
[Credits]
Roscoe Holcomb (banjo/guitar/harmonica/fiddle/vocals)
Recorder, Producer, Liner Notes and Photographer: John Cohen
[Notes]
Compiled from three Folkways albums: "Music of Roscoe Holcomb" (FA 2363, 1961) recorded at Sanders Recording Studio, 46th St. and Times Square, New York City; "The High Lonesome Sound" (FA 2368, 1964) recorded at Steinway Hall, New York City; and "Close To Home" (FA 2374, 1972) recorded on Roscoe's front porch, Daisy, Kentucky. Additional recordings taken from a concert performance in Cambridge, Mass. in 1973.

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