FOLKWAYS RECORDS

This short story by Washington Irving is one of the earliest classics of American fiction. Read by stage and radio actor David Kurlan, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820) tells the tale of...

Renowned cantor David Kusevitsky sings Sabbath and High Holiday liturgical music on these five tracks, with organ accompaniment. He began his long career as a member of the synagogue choir in Vilna...

This album contains songs of the Kwakiutl people collected by Dr. Ida Halpern (1910-1987). Halpern, an Austrian-born Canadian musicologist, studied Native music from several tribes along the coast of...

During the Nazi occupation, some French writers refused to submit to the invaders and fought to preserve France's cultural inheritance. Each in his own way, the four writers presented on this CD were...

La Chanson de Roland is one of the most important works of French literature. Lucie de Vienne Blanc was so impressed by [it's] dramatic and incredible human content that she recorded it, hoping, in...

Long before Hollywood dramatized the plight of Native Americans, Peter La Farge was writing about his peoples' experiences, from songs about Tecumseh and the Trail of Tears to a rhyme about the atom...

A member of the extinct Nargaset tribe, La Farge was adopted by the Tewa tribe of the Hopi Nation. His stepfather raised him and taught him about horses and the cowboy life, and here La Farge sings...

This album is Peter La Farge's tribute to women-the ones he's loved from afar and the ones he's loved from a-near, the ones who broke his heart and the ones who helped him fix it.1. Bad Girl 2. Lone...

This album is Peter La Farge's tribute to women&;the ones he's loved from afar and the ones he's loved from a-near, the ones who broke his heart and the ones who helped him fix it.1. Ira Hayes...

Jacques Labrecque (1917-1995) performs charming songs with a joy evidenced by his laughter as he sings. Folk Songs of France and French Canada is a re-creation of a 1955 "lecture-recital" Labrecque...

This volume gathers the music of four influential Qu b cois performers from the 78rpm era: harmonica player Henri Lacroix and accordionists Joseph Plante, Joseph Guilmette, and Th odore Duguay...

Recorded in 1971, The New Ragtime Guitar represented a new instrumental take on ragtime piano music. While many guitar players had incorporated ragtime pieces into their style, the limitations of a...