FOLKWAYS RECORDS

Best known for his blues harmonica recordings, Sonny Terry joins friends Brownie McGhee and J.C. Burris to explore the range of the jawharp (also known as Jew's harp or mouth harp) in blues and...

Blind harmonica player and singer Sonny Terry recorded a few records during the 1930s and 1940s, but found wider fame in the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. This recording features a washboard...

Five men from the Houston area perform "Sixteen popular folk songs of the Lone Star State," most of which have become well-known throughout the country. The songs reflect some of the realities and...

Theodorakis,Mikis Peoples' Music: The Struggles Of The Greek People CD1. Sotiris Petroulas 2. The Partisans 3. The Boy with the Sunlit Smile 4. Overture-Instrumental 5. Make Your Bed for Two 6. In...

This fascinating collection demonstrates the variations one tune may inspire, from it's origin as a French quadrille to transformative performances by the Benny Goodman trio and jazz pianist Art...

Dubbed "The First Lady of Children's Music," Ella Jenkins has released over thirty albums on Smithsonian Folkways since her first recording, Call-and-Response: Rhythmic Group Singing, in 1957...

Recorded by South African refugees, This Land Is Mine: South African Freedom Songs unites people of all races in the struggle for a South Africa free from apartheid. First composed in the 1950s in...

While the father of the European cantata tradition, J.S. Bach, died in 1750, late eighteenth-century American composers classified their compositions as 'cantatas' tentatively, even though they...

Norman Thomas was the leader of the American Socialist Party in the 1930s and '40s. In 1960, he was interviewed by Howard Langer about the role of the minority political party in the United States. A...

Though known first as a piano genre, the earliest recordings of ragtime feature five-string banjo and military concert bands. This collection provides a sampling of ragtime banjo performances,...

Blessed by Ragtimer Eubie Blake, Trebor Tichenor plays the "real stuff." Rags, Tichenor comments, "retain strong ties to the country"-maintaining notably Midwestern and southern roots-and are...

Tihang Gultom Group Batak Music: Tobak Batak Music CD1. Introduction with Examples of the Instruments 2. The Song of the Babysitter - Lullaby 3. The Eye Opener 4. Song of the Ugly One 5. Do Not Put...