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1	Hallowed Ground (1984) more music like this by Violent Femmes After the surprise success of their landmark debut, Violent Femmes could have just released another collection of teen-rage punk songs disguised as folk, and coasted into the modern rock spotlight alongside contemporaries like the Modern Lovers and Talking Heads. Instead they made Hallowed Ground, a hellfire-and-brimstone-beaten exorcism that both ... see all copies from $7.39! new only from $7.39!
2	Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Fishes (Little & Big) (1998) more music like this by Pete Seeger Previously available on two separate 1955 Folkways LPs (Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Little Fishes and Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Bigger Fishes), this CD combines both of these children's records onto one disc, complete lyrics included in the accompanying booklet. As the titles make plain, the songs were devoted to animals of all sorts; Birds, Beasts, ... see all copies from $11.24! new only from $14.95!
3	The Carter Family: 1927-1934 (2002) more music like this by The Carter Family Fans looking for more than ASV/Living Era's Wildwood Flower collection but scared off by Bear Family's massive 12-disc box could comfortably pick up this five-disc budget compilation. At 126 songs, it covers all of their RCA Victor recordings in chronological order, omitting only alternate takes. The remastering isn't necessarily better than other ... see all copies from $30.43! new only from $30.43!
4	Can the Circle Be Unbroken?: Country Music's First Family (2000) more music like this by The Original Carter Family The second half of the Carter Family's recorded output largely rests with the contents of this CD. It's their output for Columbia's OKeh and Conqueror labels, 17 of the 20 recorded over five days in May 1935 and the final three from an October 1940 session. In typical Carter Family fashion, the material is wide ranging and eclectic, running from ... see all copies from $5.26! new only from $11.06!
5	The Essential Doc Watson (1973) more music like this by Doc Watson It's a measure of how succinct Doc Watson's interpretations of traditional music are that this 26-song collection is one of the few Vanguard double-LP compilations to make it onto CD completely intact, with no songs eliminated, and it still clocks in at under 70 minutes. It's also one of the better sounding of the Welk Music Group's mid-'80s CD ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $15.15!
6	His Folkways Years (1963-1968) (1998) more music like this by Dock Boggs After Boggs, the Appalachian singer/banjoist who had released a dozen sides in the late '20s, was rediscovered by Mike Seeger in 1963, he did some recording for Folkways Records. This double-CD, 50-song set contains the material from three Boggs LPs for Folkways: Legendary Singer & Banjo Player (1963), Vol. 2 (1965), and Vol. 3 (1970). The ... see all copies from $22.28! new only from $22.28!
7	Classic Bluegrass, Vol. 2 (2005) more music like this by Various Artists When Moses Asch released American Banjo (which focused on the influence of Earl Scruggs' innovative three-finger banjo playing technique) in 1956 on his little independent Folkways label, it was the first ever full-length bluegrass LP. Asch followed it up with dozens more, and when Folkways became part of Smithsonian Recordings in 1987, Asch's ... see all copies from $5.88! new only from $11.03!
8	Shake Sugaree (2004) more music like this by Elizabeth Cotten Elizabeth Cotten was a national treasure. She didn't begin recording until she was 66 years old (in 1958), but a simple song she had written when she was 11, "Freight Train," became a staple of the folk revival in the 1960s, and her frequent concerts and appearances on the folk circuit were legendary for their unassuming grace and wisdom, not to ... see all copies from $13.22! new only from $14.95!
9	First Time Together (2005) more music like this by Ralph Stanley & Jimmy Martin see all copies from $2.13! new only from $3.77!
10	Sings Songs for Little Pickers (1990) more music like this by Doc Watson Songs for Little Pickers is a wonderful live recording of Doc Watson performing family material that he remembers singing as a child in North Carolina. Thom Owens, All Music Guide see all copies from $7.09! new only from $14.79!
11 view cover	Greatest Hits 1927-34 (2003) more music like this by The Carter Family It is interesting that this selection of the Carter Family's early Victor recordings has been titled Greatest Hits, since the trio (A.P., Sara, and Maybelle Carter) didn't really hit their peak popularity until after they left Victor for Decca in 1935 (at which time they promptly re-recorded everything here) and began their radio contract with ... see all copies from $5.47! new only from $5.47!
12 view cover	Ralph Stanley (2002) more music like this by Ralph Stanley The undisputed modern patriarch of bluegrass, Ralph Stanley is presented starkly and honestly on this self-titled 2002 album. Similar in sound and execution to Johnny Cash and Rick Rubin's American Recordings, Ralph Stanley presents the 75-year-old vocalist in a bare-bones environment with only minimal musical accompaniment, highlighting his ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $2.99!
13 view cover	Country Music Hall of Fame (1991) more music like this by The Carter Family After ending an eight-year association with Victor Records, the Carter Family recorded 60 sides for Decca between 1936 and 1938; 15 of those recordings are collected here. Decca wanted to emphasize new material; this posed no problem for A.P. Carter, who was long accustomed to taking copyright credit for minor rewrites of other people's songs. The ... see all copies from $5.49! new only from $5.49!
14 view cover	Black Mountain Rag (2006) more music like this by Doc Watson/Merle Watson Black Mountain Rag is drawn from Doc and Merle Watson's three early-'80s albums for Flying Fish Records (1981's Red Rocking Chair, 1983's Doc & Merle Watson's Guitar Album, and Watson Country, which in turn was a sort of a best-of the Flying Fish years), and what is immediately striking about this compilation is how varied it is, even as it ... see all copies from $16.06! new only from $16.06!
15 view cover	An Untamed Sense of Control (2003) more music like this by Roscoe Holcomb As documented by the Smithsonian Folkways reissue The High Lonesome Sound, Roscoe Holcomb, like contemporaries Dock Boggs and Bascom Lamar Lunsford, was the real thing, a raw, solitary musician who expressed the inexpressible, a yearning out of time and place, a sense of the wild, the unseen, the unknowable, perhaps even the unspeakable. The title ... see all copies from $15.28! new only from $15.28!
16 view cover	Mountain Gospel (2005) more music like this by Various Artists The four-disc, 100-track Mountain Gospel box set collects sacred music released on commercial 78s by Southern white performers in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, and includes string bands, gospel quartets, and sacred harp singers all trying to sing their way to heaven while maybe making a dollar or two on the way. By turns exuberant, wise, humorous, ... see all copies from $26.68! new only from $26.68!
17 view cover	Back Roads to Cold Mountain (2004) more music like this by Various Artists Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain, is a powerful, widely celebrated novel that takes places during the Civil War. But Frazier's book is not about the war itself so much as the life lived n the rural American South during its long dark night. Back Roads to Cold Mountain is a collection of music assembled by ethnomusicologist and roots musician ... see all copies from $15.30! new only from $15.30!
18 view cover	Anglo-American Ballads, Vol. 1 (1999) more music like this by Various Artists Anglo-American Ballads, Vol. 1 was the first of six albums of field recordings issued in 1942 by the Archive of Folk Song in the Library of Congress, and it has subsequently appeared in LP form before this CD. Edited by Alan Lomax, this first volume was recorded between 1936 and 1941. It presents folk songs that were often derived from ballads of ... see all copies from $14.74! new only from $14.74!
19 view cover	The High Lonesome Sound (1998) more music like this by Roscoe Holcomb Twenty-one tracks from his Folkways album, including his accomplished, somber renditions of standards such as "House of the Rising Sun," "Moonshiner," "Trouble in Mind," and "Motherless Children." Holcomb is a big favorite among musicians and folklorists -- Bob Dylan, for one, is a big fan -- yet it must be said that this is probably too ... see all copies from $14.78! new only from $14.78!
20 view cover	A Distant Land to Roam: Songs of the Carter Family (2006) more music like this by Ralph Stanley When Victor Records field engineer Ralph Peer arrived in Bristol, TN, in the summer of 1927, he had a mission to record every rural Southern musician he could find. By the time he left Bristol, Peer had recorded 76 songs by 19 different acts and had set the cornerstones for the future of country music, a genre that had yet to be recognized or ... see all copies from $4.16! new only from $16.59!
21 view cover	You Ain't Talkin' to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music (2005) more music like this by Charlie Poole First, a word about what You Ain't Talkin' to Me is not: it is not a box set of Charlie Poole's complete recorded work. He recorded some 110 songs for the Columbia, Paramount, and Brunswick labels between 1925 and 1931, and 43 of those tracks are collected here, with the balance of this three-disc set given over to sides by Poole's stylistic ... see all copies from $16.99! new only from $36.18!
22 view cover	Ballads, Banjo Tunes and Sacred Songs of Western North Carolina (1996) more music like this by Bascom Lamar Lunsford A precious collection from one of folk music's legendary figures, Ballads, Banjo Tunes and Sacred Songs of Western North Carolina collects a few of his songs from his 1928 Brunswick sessions (the immortal "I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground," "Dry Bones") and adds over a dozen songs -- from a total of over 350 -- recorded in March 1949 for the ... see all copies from $11.00! new only from $14.78!
23 view cover	Remembering Merle (1992) more music like this by Doc & Merle Watson Remembering Merle is an affectionate tribute to Doc Watson's deceased son, featuring several songs -- which were all recorded live between 1970 and 1976 -- that showcased his work. Doc and Merle touch on a number of different genres, from folk and blue to rockabilly, all the while demonstrating the younger Watson's considerable talent. Thom ... see all copies from $14.47! new only from $14.47!
24 view cover	Hazel & Alice (1973) more music like this by Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard Although Dickens and Gerrard had recorded a couple of albums as a duo in the mid-1960s, those were more traditional-minded bluegrass recordings than this 1973 effort. Several of the songs documented women's experiences in personal terms that struck a chord in many listeners involved in the women's movement, a constituency that the performers were ... see all copies from $15.29! new only from $15.29!
25 view cover	Wildwood Pickin' (1997) more music like this by Mother Maybelle Carter see all copies from $13.09! new only from $13.09!

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