FOLKWAYS RECORDS

Recorded on Victor and Decca in the 1920s and 30s, Sleepy John Estes was a leading exponent of the Memphis blues style. These recordings capture the distinctive sound of Yank Rachel's legato mandolin...

New Orleans has been known for it's brass bands since the early nineteenth century. The Eureka was formed in the 1920s, and as the years passed it attracted the city's best musicians. In this 1958...

Although he made many recordings in the 1950s and 1960s, this collection presents Doc Evans' first tracks for Folkways' forerunner, Disc Records, in 1947. The musicians' spirited ensemble playing...

During the eighteenth century, the Methodist revival and puritanical reforms nearly obliterated Welsh folk song. Some secular songs were lost altogether, but enough survived to reflect the old...

This album contains songs from the Pawnee, whose historic territory stretches through much of Nebraska and into Kansas, though most Pawnee were relocated to Oklahoma. Regina "Gene" Weltfish...

Everhart,Bob Everhart Alive At Avoca CD1. The Children Are Crying 2. Wabash Cannonball 3. Columbus Stockade Blues 4. Waiting for a Train (All Around the Water Tank) 5. Walking the Floor Over You 6...

Everhart,Bob Waitin' For A Train CD1. Please Mr. Walker 2. Fiddler's Blues 3. Son of the Rising Sun 4. Nashville 5. In the Night Time 6. Feelings 7. Leaving on a Blue River Train 8. Nothing Is Small...

The "Child Ballads" are a large collection of 305 songs from England and Scotland compiled by Francis James Child in the late 19th century. Here, Ewan MacColl presents 14 of these songs, sung without...

Among the Ewe of southeast Ghana, drummers must also be proficient dancers, and dancers are often required to become musicians as well. As evidenced on this recording, Ewe instrumentation is largely...

Exotic Dances / Various Exotic Dances / Various CD1. Zapati Mediva Madule Sengavi 2. Invocational "Alarippu" 3. Sahana "Bharata Natyam" 4. Burmese "Pwe" 5. Kikuzukushi 6. Folk Dance - Yako San 7. La...

About Jujus/Alchemy of the Blues, Fabio expresses: I feel that these [poems] represent the epitome of my experimenting with the integration of music and poetry in a Black idiom taken from the rich...

Each poem in this collection by Sarah Webster Fabio was carefully selected from a ten-year period in her life which she describes as her "mature years." During this time, Fabio was focused on the...