SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS

FROM NOW ON is a Cajun tour-de-force of distilled Michael Doucet, the much admired leader of the Grammy-winning group Beausoleil. Nineteen tracks of wide-ranging repertoire and pared-down...

Down Home Saturday Night / Various Down Home Saturday Night / Various CD1. Minglewood Blues - John Sebastian and the J Band with Geoff Muldaur 2. White House Blues - Earl Taylor and the Stoney...

Drivers Union Group Por Por: Honk Horn Music Of Ghana CD1. Por Por Akwaaba/Welcome 2. Otsokobila 3. Trotro Tour of Ghana 4. Trotro Drivers, We Love You So 5. Shidaa, a Song of Praise and Tribute to...

Dust Busters / Cohen,John Old Man Below CD1. The Honest Farmer 2. Arkansas Traveler 3. Black Jack Daisy 4. Roving Gambler 5. The Old Man Below 6. Wimbush Rag 7. Because He Loved Her So 8. Barnyard...

Dyer Bennet,Richard Dyer Bennet 2 CD1. When Cockleshells Turn Silverbells 2. Corn Rigs Are Bonnie 3. The Garden Where the Praties Grow 4. The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington 5. Two Maidens Went...

Dyer Bennet,Richard Dyer Bennet 5 CD1. Greensleeves 2. The Golden Vanity 3. The White Lily 4. Lord Rendal 5. Westryn Wynde 6. Barbara Allen 7. Venezuela 8. The Quaker Lover 9. John Henry 10. Spanish...

Richard Dyer-Bennet was instrumental in bringing the rural folk repertoire to the concert hall during the '50s, and releases on his own Dyer-Bennet label were lovingly annotated and engineered...

Dyer-Bennet,Richard With Young People In Mind CD1. Come All Ye 2. Old Bangum 3. Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn 4. Aunt Rhody 5. Frog Went A-Courtin' 6. John Peel 7. The Leprechaun 8. The Piper Dundee 9...

Versatile and transcendent, Snooks Eaglein is known for his electric R&B, as well as his acoustic folk classic. Billed in the mid-50s as "Lil' Ray Charles" this influential New Orleans guitarist can...

Historic vocal recordings from the early 1930s of Spain's most famous Flamenco singers with guitar accompani-ment by Paco Aguilera Melchor de Marchena Ni?o Ricardo or Ni?o Perez on guitar.1. Bulerias...

Few states in this country can boast of more diverse folkways than Virginia. Many of the material objects-such as barns, tools, and furniture-reflect the traditions that shaped the lives of it's...

Ears of the People is a collection of sublime contemporary recordings of the ekonting, a three-stringed gourd lute played by Jola people in Gambia and the Casamance region of Senegal. The nine...