Folk

This compilation rounds up the best releases of the important labels within in the Louisiana black music scene, such as ANLA/ Goldband, Maison de Soul, Murco and Soul Unlimited. The booklet features many wonderful pictures sourced by noted Louisiana...

This compilation of religious music from the 1920s and 1930s American South brings together black and white performers to show the relationships and differences between the two styles. Both styles share more elements of text and music than their secular...

This compilation features over an hour of previously unreleased tracks culled from the archives of Mike Seeger, one of America's foremost collectors. Artists include Dock Boggs, Snuffy Jenkins, Tom Ashley, Arthur Smith, Sara Carter Bayes, Maybelle...

This compilation features classic recordings by artists doing some of their best loved songs during the great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s. Includes tracks by: Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, Brownie McGhee among others.1. Pastures...

This collection reminds US that the ballad's purpose, first and foremost, is to tell a story. These songs narrate tales of ordinary people-hoboes and lovers and sailors-and their extraordinary deeds. From "John Henry" to "Lady Margaret," Pete Seeger's...

This collection presents songs for "men of all sorts and kinds," including starving bachelors, clam diggers, pilgrims, millers, and even biologists. The catchy "It's a Long Way from Amphioxus" is a paean to evolution, and zoologist Hinton points out that...

This collection old-time social and instrumental string-band music spotlights instrumental prowess. Old-time music features playing styles that pre-date bluegrass, emerging from the sgring band tradition stretching back to the early years of United State...

This collection of traditional religious music features 16 tracks performed by folk singer and actor Ed McCurdy and his son Dana. Ed McCurdy is most famous for his anti-war classic, "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream," popularized by Pete Seeger and...

This collection of seventeen traditional Lakota songs is by one of the great native singers of all time, William Horncloud, and includes honor songs, war songs, old Omaha dance songs, love songs and rabbit songs. Born in 1905, Horncloud learned songs...

This collection of folk music highlights Robinson's quirky personality with songs such as the science-fiction love tune, "My True Love." Not only does Robinson include notes on every song, accompanied by either piano or guitar, he shares some of his...

This collection of ballads from the Kentucky mountains comes from the repertoire of Betty Garland, who learned them from her family. She writes, "I did my best to sing these songs the way I have always heard them so that the original and beautiful tunes...

This collection of acoustic, folk-oriented music is by songwriters primarily from the Cascade Mountain area of the Northwestern US. Calling themselves the Cascade Songwriter's Collective, the group has created this CD as a fund raiser for Sisters of the...