FOLKWAYS RECORDS

This album by banjoist Roger Sprung features some classic old-timey tunes like "Cluck Old Hen" and "Bill Cheatham" as well as a few surprises?for example, the Hebrew folk song "Hava Nagila" in a...

Known as "The Father of East Coast Bluegrass," Roger Sprung was born in Manhattan in 1930. The variety of music he encountered in New York informs his banjo playing as he incorporates jazz, old time...

Of banjo innovator Roger Sprung, Alan Lomax wrote, "Bluegrass emerged fifty years after New Orleans' hot music as mountaineers' answer to jazz. It seems to me that Sprung has taken a logical and...

This second album from Roger Sprung stretches the boundary of the bluegrass style and repertoire even farther with it's selection of rags, fiddle tunes, and even the Greek melody "Misirlou" and an...

In 1957 Vinton Wight recorded and collected the sounds various different Steam Locomotives. He explains that "Stack Music" is "that delightful sound caused by super heated steam, exhausted from the...

In 1957 Vinton Wight recorded and collected the sounds various different Steam Locomotives. He explains that "Stack Music" is "that delightful sound caused by super heated steam, exhausted from the...

This is the story of three little locomotives and 33 cars climbing Cumbres Pass, on the Colorado-New Mexico border" says Vinton Wight, who recorded this "tale" in 1958. The album focuses on one...

In 1957, archivists Art Rosenbaum and Ed Kahn traveled to Hamilton, Kentucky, to look for Pete Steele, a singer and banjo player they had heard on Alan Lomax's recordings from the 1930s. In the next...

Steiner,Lee Rabinowitz Sounds Of Self-Hypnosis Through Relaxation CD1. Introduction to the Recording By Mrs. Lee R. Steiner 2. Self-Hypnosis Through Relaxation

Folklorist Kenneth Goldstein recorded these nine ballads by Scotland singer Lucy Stewart in her own home and under relatively natural conditions (the children were shooed away). Goldstein writes in...

Melvin Stewart 's acting career took off when he was cast in Langston Hughes' play, Simply Heavenly. The show started as an Off-Broadway production, moved to Broadway, then toured in Europe before...

Arbee's Blues lays testament to Bluesman Arbee Stidham's triumph over a long depression, a consequence of an accident that forced him to give up the saxophone in the mid-1950's. Along his route to...