FOLKWAYS RECORDS

As the American South moved from a primarily agrarian economy to an industrial one, the change was felt strongly by country musicians, and it revolutionized every aspect of their music. In Tipple,...

It could not have been an easy task for Peggy Seeger to choose the 22 tracks for this album from the 43 featured in her mother's 1950 publication, Animal Folk Songs for Children. Her mother was the...

It is voices like Peggy Seeger's on this album that helped to make significant strides in the struggle for gender equality. Seeger's commentary is poignant and timeless as songs like "Nine-Month...

Seeger,Peggy Folkways 55-92 CD1. Pretty Saro 2. Lady, What Do You All Day? 3. Broomfield Hill 4. The Squire ; the Colic 5. Jellon Graeme 6. Going to the West 7. Jane Jane 8. When I Was Single 9. The...

From where Peegy Seeger stood, "[she] had to start looking for roots." After many years of living in the United Kingdom, Seeger found that she had stopped singing many of the traditional banjo tunes...

Peggy Seeger's honest, unadorned voice and Clark Weissman's deft guitar accompaniment grace this selection of ballads whose characters lament the trials of courting and the tribulations of ill-fated...

Pete Seeger teaches the 12-string guitar as played by the virtuoso Lead Belly through a detailed breakdown of both the instrument itself (how to tune it, steel vs. Silk strings etc.) and step-by-step...

This collection reminds US that the ballad's purpose, first and foremost, is to tell a story. These songs narrate tales of ordinary people-hoboes and lovers and sailors-and their extraordinary deeds...

See also: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings reissued series of American Favorite Ballads.1. Down in the Valley 2. Oh, Mary Don't You Weep 3. The Blue Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn) 4. Yankee Doodle 5...

See also: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings reissued series of American Favorite Ballads.1. Oh, Susanna 2. The Riddle Song 3. Oh, What a Beautiful City 4. Sally Ann 5. House of the Rising Sun 6...

Seeger,Pete American Play Parties CD1. Mazoo, Mazoo 2. Skip to My Lou 3. Shake Them 'Simmons Down 4. Alabama Bound 5. Sally Down the Alley 6. Turn the Glasses Over 7. Goodbye Liza Jane 8. Git Along...

Seeger,Pete Banks Of Marble And Other Songs CD1. Hell's Canyon / Don't Ask What a River Is for 2. God Bless the Grass 3. Joy and Temperance 4. The Young Woman Who Swallowed a Lie 5. Two Chinese...