FOLKWAYS RECORDS

This compilation of religious music from the 1920s and 1930s American South brings together black and white performers to show the relationships and differences between the two styles. Both styles...

Courlander,Harold Folk Tales From West Africa CD1. The Cow-Tail Switch 2. Younde Goes to Town 3. Talk 4. Throw Mountains 5. Don't Shake Hands with Everybody

Cousin Emmy, born Cynthia May Carver (1903-1980) in Barren County, Kentucky, brought the old time banjo music of her roots to glitzier venues, where she donned sequined dresses to create a stage...

This collection presents the two main genres of Afro-Dutch Guyanese music-Kawina-winti and Kaseko-Opo Poku. Sung in Taki-Taki (a native Creole dialect consisting of English, Dutch, Portuguese, and...

This recording combines vocal interpretations of Vodou (an Afro-Haitian religion) ceremonial songs and popular secular melodies by legendary Haitian singer, dancer and folklorist Emerante de Pradines...

Crespo,Don Jose San Juan De La Cruz: Poesias 1 CD1. Entreme Donde No Supe 2. Romance (I-Ix) 3. Super Flumina Babylonis Un Pastorcico 4. Aunque Es de Noche 5. Por Toda la Hermosura 6. Suma de la...

Banjo player and raconteur Rufus Crisp (1880-1955) was born, lived, and died in mountainous eastern Kentucky. This album, whose liner notes provide extensive biographical and contextual information,...

In this recording, Lester Crocker, professor and Fullbright scholar, reads from the Pocket Books edition of Don Quixote which he himself edited. Crocker does not manage to read the entire novel but...

This album is representative of the vast variety of American Indian music found across the United States and Canada. A complement to the book of the same name by John Bierhorst, this collection...

These recordings represent a collection of masterpieces, which will now be preserved as an important part of the archives documenting the history of Cuban music. We hope that they will be used by...

Cunningham,Sis Broadside Ballads, Vol. 9: Sundown CD1. Sundown 2. How Can You Keep on Movin' 3. Evicted Tenant 4. Oil Derrick By West Tulsa 5. Mister Congressman 6. No More Store Bought Teeth 7...

When George "Daddy Hotcakes" Montgomery sings "Mustard Greens," his rich, rugged voice shifts from a call-and-response conversation about eating cornbread and mustard greens to lyrics about growing...