FOLKWAYS RECORDS

Recorded in 1975 by American folk musician Bob Connelly, this record is a riveting musical journey through the early years of American Imperialism. Irony, frustration, and condemnation spew forth...

Contemporary English 1 / Var Contemporary English 1 / Var CD1. I'm Through with You Forever 2. In the Wilderness 3. The Troll's Nosegay 4. Mike and Mandy 5. Traveller's Curse 6. Song: Lift Boy 7. In...

Contemporary Russian / Var Contemporary Russian / Var CD1. In the Window Stands a Red Rose 2. Old Tikhvin Melody 3. Novgorod Lyrical Melody 4. Oh, My Sweetheart 5. The Young Girl Was Married Off 6...

This 1976 Folkways release by David Cope presents modern music based on Cope's intensive research into-and respect for-Navajo ceremonies, and Navajo music in particular. Ranging from pieces for large...

Cope,David Visions - Music For Orchestra 2 Pianos CD1. Threshold and Visions: Movement I 2. Threshold and Visions: Movement II 3. Threshold and Visions: Movement III 4. Threshold and Visions:...

In remote regions, still difficult to access, in the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains of western Mexico, there still remain pockets of Indians who have not yet adopted the predominant Mestizo...

While Tex-Mex music is commonly thought of as the folk music that's popular along the Texas-Mexico border, ironically, it knows no borders when it comes to musical influences. Several selections on...

Cort,David Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Selection From The Essays CD1. From the Essay "Beauty" 2. The Poem "The Snowstorm" 3. Is This Beauty to Perish? and the Poem "Hamatreya" 4. Each Age Must Write It's...

In the mid-1940s, Elizabeth Cotten (1895-1987) chanced to meet composer Ruth Crawford Seeger at a department store. They began to talk, and Seeger soon hired Cotten to work in the Seeger household...

Originally released in 1959, The Country Blues features a range of styles and a collection of recordings not included in other Folkways compilations. This selection-mostly recorded between 1927 and...

This second volume continues Folkways' The Country Blues (FW00RF1) and is the result of efforts in the early 1960s to find singers who were previously known only as names on commercial recordings...

Washington DC's the Country Gentleman bring together a collection of classic Bluegrass songs from the Blue Ridge Mountains. The album compiles a mix of both fast energetic songs and slow ballads that...