FOLKWAYS RECORDS

In the summer of 1970, Dr. Amnon Shiloah captured a small sampling of the Greek Jewish musical tradition that had survived for millennia until the WWII-era Holocaust nearly obliterated this community...

John Greenway performs a sampling of the 400 folksongs he collected in Australia. A renowned American Folklorist specializing in songs of social protest, Greenway was best known for maintaining that...

Singer and folklorist John Greenway focuses on his specialty, labor and protest songs, in this 1958 album. In addition to the "original" talking blues tune by Chris Bouchillon, which appeared on a...

Folklorist and dulcimer player Anne Grimes collected over 1,000 ballads and folk songs from her native Buckeye State. This album features 20 of these songs, including Child ballads and songs from...

West African griots are gatekeepers of their culture, repositories of oral tradition. Hear centuries-old histories from Gambia and Mali, accompanied by stringed instruments and drums. This recording...

Philip S. Gross narrates this 1962 album which details a particular method developed by Gross to learn Morse code called the "Gross Method". He states that his method reduces the learning time from...

Along with Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, and Garcia Lorca, Nicol?s Guillen, poet laureate of revolutionary Cuba, represents the very best in Hispanic poetry and is at the same time the undisputed...

Guinness,Alec Christian Poetry And Prose: Selected CD1. Revelations of Divine Love 2. How Many Heavens 3. Journey of the Magi 4. Not Only Death 5. Christmas 6. The Night 7. Parables 8. Lines from the...

At the time of this album's release, Tyrone Guthrie was one of the top theatre directors in the world. At the height of his illustrious career, he recorded this lecture in which he underscores every...

Woody's songs have a way of taking hold, because they speak in the voice of the people that you can't beat down, you can't scare and you can't starve out. They are songs with the rhythm of work in...

Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) was perhaps the most important folk musician of the twentieth century, inspiring a generation of singers and musicians such as Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Ramblin' Jack Elliott,...

Woody Guthrie was one of America's most prolific songwriters, and of the thousand-odd songs he wrote between 1932 and 1952, some have become classics, recorded by countless musicians all over the...