Folk

In this album's liner notes Sol Stetin, former president of the Textile Worker Union of America and co-founder of the American Labor Museum, writes Joe Glazer knows the feelings and aspirations of the textile workers. He has marched on their picket lines...

In There Is No Eye: Music for Photographs, legendary, film maker, folkorist and musican John Cohen (of the Los City Rambler) presents some of the finest roots recordings ever made. Featuring previously unreleased tracks from Rev. Gary Davis, Bob Dylan...

In the traditional string band style, longtime Folkways recording artists The New Lost City Ramblers offer up 18 topical songs written by country singers during the dark days of the Great Depression. Many of the songs are from commercial recordings,...

In the realm of roots and acoustic music, there's no equal to Tanglefoot. Captured Alive is the log-awaited live recording from Canada's legendary folk band capturing definitive Tanglefoot live and up-close: The furious energy, the passion and the artist...

In the past, Mapache recording sessions have been pretty laid-back affairs, with friends coming and going, the sessions starting and stopping at the band's discretion-as relaxed a process as the immaculately sunny vibes that their four albums would...

In the original notes to this recording, Mike Seeger writes, "The songs on this album were recorded by commercial companies and the Library of Congress in the southeastern mountains between 1925 and 1935, and show the first attempts of the hill musicians...

In the original liner notes, Pete Seeger writes, "[This album] is influenced by the folk traditions of the American South, popular music of the airwaves, and recordings heard of ethnic music from Africa, Russia, Asia, the Caribbean, and also of the...

In the liner notes, Cisco Houston writes that he's been from coast to coast at least thirty times and has traveled a "good part" of the world as well. This album presents thirteen songs about the tribulations and joys of life on the road.1. Muleskinner...

In the liner notes to this second volume of topical songs, Irwin Silber writes, "Traditional folk song, in addition to it's inherent artistic worth and emotion-fulfilling qualities, has always served as the 'living newspaper' of history." This "living...

In the late-classical era, an Edinburgh publisher commissioned the most famous composers in continental Europe to orchestrate traditional Scottish folk songs in their original English. A lush sampling of this music is performed here by Makaris, a new...

In the late 50s/early 60s U. S. Folk Revival THE LIMELITERS ran second in popularity only to The Kingston Trio. A trio of experienced Folkies, comprising Glenn Yarbrough, Alex Hassilev and Lou Gottlieb, their first six LPs all made the U. S. album charts...

In the late 1950's and early 1960's, American youth discovered the joys of folk music and this renaissance continued into the 1970's when folk rock was born. This collection gathers tracks from a wide array of artists from the era including Barry...