FOLKWAYS RECORDS

Texan Blind Willie Johnson was one of the most successful recording artists in the South in the late 1920s, before the Depression ruined the company for which he recorded. This collection...

Singing and begging are about the only two ways a blind man can make a living in farm country. Several years after Blind Willie Johnson's death in 1949, Samuel B. Charters tries to get to know the...

Johnson,David Bluegrass CD1. Blue Grass Breakdown 2. Sally Goodin 3. Kentucky Waltz 4. Bill in the Low Ground 5. Beaumont Rag 6. Earl's Breakdown 7. Grey Eagle 8. Back Up and Push 9. Medley: Rose...

Clawhammer, a right-hand plucking method of banjo playing, is the traditional style of the early Appalachian Mountain musicians. In Clawhammer Banjo, David Johnson continues this tradition, which he...

Born in North Carolina in 1911, Bill Johnson started playing the banjo at the age of eight. With his son Billie Ray on guitar and grandson David on fiddle, he leads three generations of talented...

I didn't go to a Music School, it's just an in-born talent. I experience and learnt the hardest way," says Jamaican vocalist Horace Johnson. You'll recognize Belafonte's "Island in the Sun" and...

Seventy-four minutes of solo piano from the father of Harlem stride piano. Includes eight previously unreleased tracks, including Yamekraw and Jazzamine Concerto. 20 vibrant performances, including...

Reissued with additional tracks and annotations in 1996 as Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 40812.1. Daintiness Rag 2. Blues for Jimmy 3. Jersey Sweet - Take 1 4. Jersey Sweet - Take 2 5. Keep Movin'...

In 1964, five Missippians living in Grand Rapids, Mich., started a southern gospel group called Juanita Johnson and the Gospel Tones. During the years that followed, the group gained considerable...

Johnson,Lonnie Folkways Years CD1. Raise the Window High 2. Tears Don't Fall No More 3. Long Road to Travel 4. Old Rocking Chair 5. You Have My Life in Your Hands 6. Lazy Mood 7. Mister Trouble 8...

Johnson,Yvonne Cheek Moving Makes Me Magic CD1. Work Out! the Dancing Poem 2. Move with the Music 3. The Seed 4. Jumping 5. Regina She Fat and I'm Skinny 6. When Uncle T.C. Comes to Town 7. Three...

Some of the songs on this album will make you laugh while others will evoke bittersweet memories. Some will make you want to do an allemande left and a do-si-do and be child-like again, if only for a...