Folk

Joe Glazer said of Larry Penn: "[He] is walking in the footsteps of Joe Hill and Woody Guthrie." However, Larry Penn did not always aspire to be a folk musician. A truck driver for his entire adult life, he started playing folk music after stumbling upon...

Joe Glazer said of Kenny Winfree: "[He's] got a talent that looks easy but few folks can do it. He has [a] knack for writing catchy, moving songs with a message-songs that are easy to sing and easy to remember." These kind words ring true of Winfree's...

Joan saw the brilliance of Bob Dylan from the get-go, and her admiration came to full flower on this 1969 set of Dylan songs. The album reached #30 and features her definitive rendition of Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word plus Tears of Rage; Sad-Eyed Lady...

Joan Baez' second album, released in September 1961, followed the same musical path as it's predecessor, with the material almost exclusively traditional folk songs. Joan was accompanied by the Greenbriar Boys on two tracks; on the rest it was Joan on...

Joan Baez is one of the most revered and important names in contemporary folk music, a pioneer of the protest movement in the 1960 alongside Bob Dylan and others, and an artist whose peerless voice and highly personal way with a song has influenced...

Jimmy Martin (August 10, 1927 - May 14, 2005) was an American bluegrass musician, known as the "King of Bluegrass". In 1995, Martin was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor. A documentary on his life, King of Bluegrass: The Life...

Jim came to sing at our place in Sharon some years back, along with a bunch of Californians called the Portable Folk Festival. We immediately invited him to come back and make this recording. When he did, he brought along Mary McCaslin, Jon Wilcox, and...

Jesse Winchester is a sort of folk/rock singer/songwriter who issued numerous albums for the Bearsville label throughout the 70s & early 80s. Wounded Bird Records will be issuing his entire Bearsville output on CD start with his very first album, Jesse...

Jeremy Stephens, Corrina Rose Logston Stephens and Kurt Stephenson, multi-talented musicians and singers for High Fidelity, could be considered bluegrass archaeologists who excavate rare gems of forgotten or overlooked bluegrass and old-time music and...

Jean Ritchie is a national treasure, one of America's finest and best known traditional singers. The ballads on this recordings are outstanding Appalachian version of the "Child ballads" English and Scottish narrative songs collected and published by...

Jean Ritchie is a national treasure, one of America's finest and best known traditional singers. She grew up in Viper, Kentucky, and is part of a large family, the famous "Singing Ritchies of Kentucky." the ballads on this recording are outstanding...

Jazz icon Louis Armstrong, always the consummate entertainer, turned a 1971 award ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington DC into an impromptu performance?despite recent poor health. It was one of his last concerts before he passed away 5...