FOLKWAYS RECORDS

Known for his passion for music, Dock Boggs "not only lived through Cumberland's long night but... prevailed over it. He has mastered it and infused it's raw spirit and tragic temperament into his...

Banjo player Dock Boggs once said, "Lonesome songs always appealed to me." This collection features classic dark and lonely songs like "Pretty Polly" and "Oh Death." Meant as a companion album to...

Mike Seeger interviews Dock Boggs, a Virginia coal miner, banjo player and singer of old-time Appalachian mountain music and blues. Boggs once garnered a record deal with Brunswick to record 24...

Serving as Visiting Professor of Creative Literature at NYU and working as an author of various published works throughout his career, James Weldon Johnson was an artist as well as an activist for...

Bonyun,Bill Who Built America: History Through Folksongs CD1. Waly Waly 2. The Green Mountain Boys 3. Erie Canal 4. Shoot the Buffalo 5. Santy Anno 6. Happiness Song 7. Starving to Death on My...

The bora, or boys' initiation ceremonies, of the Aboriginal peoples of Cape York Peninsula in Northeastern Australia were already under threat by outside influence when this recording was made by...

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...

Bosworth Ensembles / Various Bosworth Ensembles / Various CD1. Fleeting Clouds - Dannon Yogurt 2. Pastorella - Bollo Wine 3. A Fleeting Glimpse - Ship ; Shore Fashions 4. A Walk Thro' the Meadows -...

Edith Hillman Boxill presents in this 1976 compilation a collection of songs to exemplify the use of music in handicapped learning development. As Boxill states: "Music therapy is the use of music as...

This fascinating album of storytelling and music includes some of minstrel, composer, businessman, and bluesman Perry Bradford's best-known works, including "That Thing Called Love," the first song...

If you're looking for U.S. presidential campaign songs and political ditties dating from 1800 to 1950, you'll find them on this collection, which includes a "Yankee Doodle" spin-off urging "Fair and...

Recorded on the eve of the 200th anniversary of the American revolutionary war, Jean Brannon highlights the indispensable role that black men-both slaves and free-played in securing America's freedom...