FOLKWAYS RECORDS

Comprised of ensemble and solo music recorded at church choir performances, during rehearsals, and at singers' homes, this album compiled by music researcher Dr. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje presents...

The Blackfoot, purportedly known as such because of their dark-colored moccasins, originally ranged across the northern Great Plains region (Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchewan). These recordings,...

The two composer-pianists featured on this album, Rube Bloom and Arthur Schutt, were both consummate performers and outstanding composers, despite their very different backgrounds and experiences...

Stemming from a want to preserve the dwindling unique oral traditions of the Blue Ridge Mountain back-country region, Eric Davidson, Paul Newman and Caleb Finch performed field recordings of songs...

Collected in the mountain country of southwestern Virginia by Eric H. Davidson, Paul Newman, and Caleb E. Finch, this recording focuses specifically on the string band music of Grayson and Carroll...

During the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, documentarians and aficionados searched for country blues singers whose music had previously only been known through old recordings. This album's music...

As the Depression's early days brought Southern musicians to Northern cities, the Chicago blues scene absorbed and incorporated these new arrivals. Ensembles grew, the blues became more popular, and...

From the early blues of Son House, Willie Brown, and Charley Patton to the assertive music of the Depression, the Mississippi delta has produced songs and singers with a fierce honesty that has...

While recording in the South in the early 1960s, producer, writer, and music historian Samuel Charters was inspired not only by the sound of Furry Lewis's guitar, but by the patterns of movement in...

Rather than limiting itself to Anglo-American ballads, this commemorative album celebrates the state's ethnic heritage through Macaronic songs that mix English with other languages. Songs of the...

Recorded in 1964 at Boggs' sister's house, with guitar accompaniment from Mike Seeger, Vol. 2 is, not surprisingly, the second release from this legendary folk-blues banjo player on the Folkways...

Dock Boggs' banjo playing is legendary, and this collection of recordings from 1927 and 1929 portrays his playing before the Depression. These unique historical recordings present a background to the...