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Childern's Music Collection

Childern's Music Collection (1998) more music like this

by Various Artists

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There Is No Eye: Music for Photographs

There Is No Eye: Music for Photographs (2001) more music like this

by Various Artists

This various-artists folk compilation is a companion CD to John Cohen's book of photographs, There Is No Eye. Cohen, as many people interested in the music assembled here will already know, is not just a photographer, but also a filmmaker, producer, and musician who was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers. Whether or not you have the ...

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Greatest Folksingers of the '60s

Greatest Folksingers of the '60s (1972) more music like this

by Various Artists

Not only was Maynard Solomon's Vanguard Records one of the major folk labels of the 60s (having the prescience to pick up Joan Baez early on, and then recording the cream of the singer/songwriters thereafter), but it also had the rights to record and release material from the Newport Folk Festival, giving it access to several artists who were not ...

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Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways

Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways (2002) more music like this

by Various Artists

While bluegrass samplers are by no means rare, it's unusual to encounter one as well thought-out as this generous (and mid-priced) package from Smithsonian Folkways, the folk label known more for its ethnomusicological field recordings than its bluegrass albums. Cynics will point out that this collection comes hot on the heels of the success of ...

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Harry Smith Connection

Harry Smith Connection (1998) more music like this

by Various Artists

As part of the excitement surrounding the re-release of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music box set in 1997, two concerts were staged at the Barns of Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA. This 19-song, hour-long CD was taken from those shows, and features contemporary performances of songs on the anthology, garnished by one song about Harry Smith ...

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Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection

Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection (1996) more music like this

by var art

This assemblage of blues, bluegrass, mountain ballads, topical songs, and jazz shows the wide range of American vernacular music, and Smithsonian Folkways' commitment to it. Among the many highlights here are Clarence Ashley and Doc Watson's ragged and yet sleek version of "The Coo Coo Bird," Doug Wallin's creaky and breathless a cappella version ...

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The Young Fogies

The Young Fogies (1994) more music like this

by Various Artists

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Folk Song America, Vol. 1

Folk Song America, Vol. 1 (1991) more music like this

by Various Artists

A collection of recordings from the Smithsonian archives, Folk Song America, Vol. 1 is an extremely interesting album, mostly because of its mix of genuine folk performers and folk revival practitioners who adapted and approached these traditional tunes as art songs and artifacts. The end result has Leadbelly's prison-refined artistry bumping up ...

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The Early Years (1958-1962)

The Early Years (1958-1962) (1991) more music like this

by The New Lost City Ramblers

Moses Asch had a unique method of recording artists back in the '40s and '50s. Someone like Woody Guthrie, for instance, would just drop by Folkways when he had an idea and record. Asch might pay him five dollars for the session, and in this way he accumulated a vault full of material. Perhaps this explains the incredible fact that the New Lost ...

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Bluegrass at Newport: 1959-1963

Bluegrass at Newport: 1959-1963 (1959) more music like this

by Various Artists

A gem of a CD featuring Flatt & Scruggs, Jim & Jesse, Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson, and the New Lost City Ramblers. Chip Renner, All Music Guide

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New Lost City Ramblers Vol. 2, 1963-1973, Outstanding in Their Field (1993) more music like this

by The New Lost City Ramblers

This 72-minute companion piece to The Early Years (1958-1962) is drawn from the seven Folkways albums that the New Lost City Ramblers recorded between 1963 and 1973, following the entry of Tracy Schwartz and the departure of Tom Paley, and it's every bit as essential as the first volume. Continuing their emphasis on careful replication of many ...

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40 Years of Concert Performances (2001) more music like this

by The New Lost City Ramblers

Unlike many bands, the history of the New Lost City Ramblers is fairly easy to trace. John Cohen and Mike Seeger joined with Tom Paley between '58 and '62, reviving string-band music from the '20s and '30s. In '62, Tracy Schwarz' replaced a departing Paley, adding new material to the band's repertoire. 40 Years of Concert Recordings proves as ...

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20th Anniversary Concert: Live at Carnegie Hall (1987) more music like this

by The New Lost City Ramblers

This is a nicely spirited celebration of a band that was longer-lived than many of its old-time role models. Mark A. Humphrey, All Music Guide

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Southern Country Gospel (1997) more music like this

by Various Artists

The second release in the Vanguard label's Gospel series includes the Stanley Brothers' "Gathering Flowers for the Master's Bouquet," Pete Seeger's "Oh Mary Don't You Weep" and Maybelle Carter & the Lost City Ramblers' "The Old Gospel Ship." Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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Folk Song America, Vol. 2 (1991) more music like this

by Various Artists

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Folk Music at Newport, Vol. 1 (1995) more music like this

by Various Artists

This is an album that grows on you gradually -- but only because it covers such a diverse collection of styles in the course of seventy minutes. The majority of the cuts on this album are being released for the first time, while all but one (the Kingston Trio's "M.T.A.," from 1959) are drawn from the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. The recordings are ...

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Vanguard Newport Folk Festival Sampler (1996) more music like this

by Various Artists

Founded in 1959 by Theodore Bikel, Oscar Brand, Pete Seeger, George Wein, and Albert Grossman, and modeled after the already established and successful Newport Jazz Festival, the Newport Folk Festival ran in its original configuration throughout the '60s before running out of gas in 1971 (the festival was revived in 1985 and has run annually ever ...

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There Ain't No Way Out (1997) more music like this

by The New Lost City Ramblers

More than 20 years after the New Lost City Ramblers' last studio recordings, Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tracy Schwarz got back together for There Ain't No Way Out, a 26-track celebration of old-timey music, including bluegrass, yodel blues, spirituals, Cajun, and what is usually referred to generically as "folk" music. They haven't lost much of ...

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A Fish That's a Song (1990) more music like this

by Various Artists

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Old Time Music (1994) more music like this

by The New Lost City Ramblers

The New Lost City Ramblers were instrumental in bridging the gap between the young urban folk musicians of the early '60s, who embraced the form and feel of old-time American music, and the last of the great rural singers and players who had actually grown up with the music in its original incarnation. The Ramblers were careful to stay true to the ...

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Remembrance of Things to Come (1966) more music like this

by The New Lost City Ramblers

This was the one album by the New Lost City Ramblers to be bartered into an arrangement between Verve and Folkways in the mid-'60s, when one of the United States' reoccurring folk music revivals was in full swing. This meant that, at least for a time, entertainment conglomerate MGM was actually pressing the records of this group. How members such ...

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Rural Delivery No. 1 (1965) more music like this

by The New Lost City Ramblers

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Modern Times more music like this

by Mike Seeger with the New Lost City Ramblers

Is it true that the modern country song "Streets of Baltimore" is more "immediate and far reaching" than the traditional ballad "Barbara Allen"? So says John Cohen, one of the members of this ensemble, and of course wading through his liner notes is part of the fun of a set such as this. "Rural Songs from an Industrial Society" is how he says this ...

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