Folk

This 1965 radio documentary written by renowned author, historian, actor, and broadcaster Studs Terkel begins with a young victim of the Hiroshima bombing and weaves together excerpts of interviews Terkel conducted over the years with, for example, James...

This 1964 Folkways release, recorded and produced by Edith Fulton Fowke, is a collection of songs dealing primarily with sailing on the Great Lakes of North America. Fowke's research relies heavily on stories and songs as recollected by descendants of...

This 1950's recording pairs the electrifying accordionist Charles Magnante with the smoldering vocalist LaVergne Smith. Accompanied lightly by banjo, Magnante's virtuosic set ranges from "Twelfth Street Rag" and the tango "La cu cumparsita" to Chopin's...

This 17 track CD is a special 10th anniversary sampler from Osmosys Records. It features music from Maddy Prior, the Incredible String Band, And Did Those Feet, Dougie Maclean and many others. It's a veritable feast of music from English traditional...

This 10-track album by Broadside, a magazine devoted to publishing contemporary folk songs during the 1960s, features songs by unknown or emerging folk singer/songwriters. The best known of the performers is Janis Ian (billed as "Blind Girl Grunt")...

They said it couldn't be done. Four different songwriters joining forces to form a single band? There was simply no precedent (outside of CSNY, The Beatles, The Traveling Wilburys, The Highwaymen, Monsters of Folk, etc). And yet Fantastic Cat did it...

These two recordings were made from field tapes recorded over a period of several years during which we enjoyed repeated visits to friends on Beech Mountain in northwestern North Carolina. When programming them, we found it appropriate to divide them as...

These two recordings were made from field tapes recorded over a period of several years during which we enjoyed repeated visits to friends on Beech Mountain in northwestern North Carolina. When programming them, we found it appropriate to divide them as...

These Songs represent the traditional music of the native people of the Warm Springs Reservation (comprised of fourteen tribal groups including Warm Springs, Wasco, and Northern Paiute) located in Oregon. Chosen with great care by the singers, this...

These songs of love and death feature Mickey Miller's pleasantly light vocals and her unusual guitar style, which is meant to approximate banjo frailing. Bess Hawes, a member of the famous song-collecting Lomax family, joins Miller for several duets and...

These songs have been part of the fabric of America for a half century or more - and these five volumes of folk ballads recorded by Pete in the '50s and '60s were an integral part of our folk revival. Here are all 139 folk ballads on 5 CDs, each with...

These fresh new arrangements recorded at the renowned Eastcote Studios burst with vital energy, as Stick In The Wheel present live favourites from their recent touring band: Si?n Monaghan on drums, George Hoyle on bass, along with Ian Carter's trademark...