FOLKWAYS RECORDS

It is dangerous to be a protest singer writes Broadside Magazine publisher Gordon Friesen in the liner notes to this album. This 1968 series of interviews with folk singer Phil Ochs was released...

Banjo player and singer Ola Belle Reed created this album and it's accompanying notes as an autobiography, a document that describes her childhood in the mountains, her experiences, and her opinions...

Old Grey Goose Old Grey Goose: Maine Country Dance Music And Song CD1. Bay of Fundy (Reel) / Pay de Haut (Reel) - (Medley) 2. Connaught Man's Rambles (Jig) / the Frost Is All Over (Jig) - (Medley) 3...

The seventeen singers featured on this album hail from the valleys of eastern Tennessee around Sevierville and Maryville, where they sing songs from the famous shape note collection The Harp of...

Compiled from field recordings made in 1963, this album offers a view of musical life in the Laurel River region of North Carolina, where dances and "workings"-days of common labor followed by...

Roy Berkeley, Artie Rose, and Tom Paley (once a member of the New Lost City Ramblers) play a host of old favorites from old time string band recordings from the 1920s and 1930s, including "I'm...

This album attempts to reproduce New England choral music as it was sung in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In keeping with the singing school tradition of which this repertoire...

Mark Olf (1905-1987) was a composer and singer of Yiddish and Hebrew songs. He emigrated from Russia to the U.S. with his family when he was in his early teens; he later recorded some of the songs he...

Mark Olf (1905-1987) was a composer and singer of Yiddish and Hebrew songs. Olf emigrated to the U.S. from Russia when he was young; he later recorded some of the songs he had heard as a child,...

Olson,Charles Charles Olson Reads From Maximus Poems Iv, V, Vi CD1. I Am the Gold Machine (With Intro.) 2. All My Life I've Heard About Many / Piggy Back Poem 3. Maximus, from Dogtown II (With Intro...

As the original liner notes insist, the Hawaiian guitar craze that surprised the nation in the 1920s did not end-it just changed to incorporate different repertoires and styles, including jazz,...

Juan Onatibia performs songs from the Basque region. Most of the songs are forms of traditional dances such as the Aurresku (courting dance) and the Ezpata (sword dance). The songs are mostly...