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1	The Essential Taj Mahal (2005) more music like this by Taj Mahal The Essential Taj Mahal pulls together the bluesman's Columbia, Warner, Gramavision Private Music, and Hannibal labels' recordings, making it the first truly cross-licensed compilation of his work. Given the depth and breadth of this set (it covers four decades), the listener gets not only a cross-sectional view of the artist, but also his ... see all copies from $20.86! new only from $20.86!
2	Classic Mountain Songs (2002) more music like this by Various Artists From the time of its inception in the middle of the 20th century, the Folkways label recorded plenty of traditional folk music from the Southern Appalachians. This well-chosen collection, oriented mostly though not totally toward tracks with vocals, has a couple of dozen examples from the Folkways catalog. Though it's not always totally clear when ... see all copies from $10.70! new only from $10.70!
3	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006) more music like this by Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions is an unusual Bruce Springsteen album in a number of ways. First, it's the first covers album Springsteen has recorded in his three-decade career, which is a noteworthy event in itself, but that's not the only thing different about We Shall Overcome. Springsteen, a notorious perfectionist who has been known ... see all copies from $2.98! new only from $3.90!
4	American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1 [2002] (2002) more music like this by Pete Seeger The title of this reissue might seem straightforward enough, but before discussing the music, its exact contents need some explanation. In the late '50s and early '60s, Seeger did five volumes of a series entitled American Favorite Ballads. Although this CD is called American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1, it is not the same as the first of the ... see all copies from $14.50! new only from $14.50!
5	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 ... see all copies from $15.18! new only from $15.18!
6	Return of the Wayfaring Stranger (1960) more music like this by Burl Ives This follow-up to The Wayfaring Stranger is, if anything, livelier and more bracing than its predecessor, released five years earlier. In contrast to The Wayfaring Stranger, which was aimed at younger folk listeners (especially children) and purists, Return of the Wayfaring Stranger came out in the midst of the folk revival; in that regard, it ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $11.66!
7	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 $2.00! new only from $19.28!
8	Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs (1962) more music like this by Woody Guthrie In April 1944, 31-year-old Woody Guthrie discovered a recording outlet when he hooked up with record company owner Moses Asch, who agreed to let him cut a virtually unlimited number of masters informally. Guthrie simply would turn up at Asch's studios alone or with such friends as Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry, Leadbelly, and Bess Lomax Hawes, and ... see all copies from $10.49! new only from $14.72!
9	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 $16.17! new only from $22.74!
10	The Legend of Blind Joe Death (1996) more music like this by John Fahey The saga of Blind Joe Death is an extremely confusing one, for those listeners who haven't been following Fahey's career from the beginning. In short: Fahey originally recorded Blind Joe Death in 1959, in an extremely rare, self-released edition of less than 100 copies. Though few heard it, his debut album was a groundbreaker on the acoustic folk ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $11.17!
11 view cover	Songs of Free Men: Recital (1997) more music like this by Paul Robeson Culled from six concerts given in the 1940s, with most of its tracks previously released on 78-rpm albums in that decade, this disc, as annotator Paul Robeson, Jr., notes, presents Paul Robeson at the peak of his singing career (from age 44 to 49) and re-creates a typical recital. Robeson sings spirituals, folk songs from various countries in ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $10.66!
12 view cover	Folk Songs for Young People (1959) more music like this by Pete Seeger Pete Seeger recorded a number of children's albums in his early solo career, some of which suffered from overt cuteness or too-elementary presentation. Perhaps this was consciously aimed at somewhat older kids, but those problems aren't a factor on this straightforward collection. The instrumentation (just Seeger and banjo) and recording ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $10.65!
13 view cover	Appalachian Swing! [Bonus Tracks] (2005) more music like this by The Kentucky Colonels Appalachian Swing! by the Kentucky Colonels (featuring Clarence White) is one of those records that has simply refused to die. Issued without any promotion in 1964, it nonetheless went on to become one of a handful of contemporary standard bluegrass LPs, right up there with Flatt & Scruggs' Carnegie Hall live album. It survived being chopped down ... see all copies from $6.89! new only from $10.70!
14 view cover	The Steve Martin Brothers (1981) more music like this by Steve Martin With regard to Steve Martin's small discography, "the worst of the four" is how The Steve Martin Brothers is usually tagged, which isn't so harsh when you consider two of the other albums are classics and one is just plain old good. It's an oddball release for sure, with half devoted to standup -- very loose and stream-of-consciousness standup -- ... see all copies from $6.24! new only from $9.29!
15 view cover	Long Steel Rail (2006) more music like this by Riley Baugus Fiddler and banjoist Riley Baugus traffics in old-timey music, a genre older, and some say, purer, than bluegrass. Long Steel Rail, then, is an album filled with traditional songs performed and sung in a traditional manner. Baugus' vocals carry an old country flavor that makes him a worthy interpreter of old warhorses like "Sail Away Ladies" and ... see all copies from $6.25! new only from $11.50!
16 view cover	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 $9.68! new only from $10.55!
17 view cover	Steam Powered Aereo-Takes (2002) more music like this by John Hartford With its feet in the most traditional of American folk music and its head peeking through a cloud of psychedelic hippie smoke, John Hartford's 1971 LP, Aereo-Plain, was groundbreaking in its ability to sound earnestly faithful to the music it was rooted in, while still twisting words and poking fun in a way that was definitely hip for the time. ... see all copies from $11.12! new only from $11.12!
18 view cover	American Banjo: Three Finger & Scruggs Style (1990) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $4.34! new only from $14.78!
19 view cover	American Folksongs for Children (1996) more music like this by Peggy and Mike Seeger The nearly 100 songs collected on this two-disc set aren't necessarily for children (some of them, like the dark "When the Train Comes Along," have death as a theme, and others, like "What Did You Have for Supper," are floating snippets from large and tragic British ballads), and siblings Peggy and Mike Seeger certainly don't sing them the way Mr. ... see all copies from $18.49! new only from $21.90!
20 view cover	Clearwater Classics [Sony Special Product] (1993) more music like this by Pete Seeger see all copies from $3.79! new only from $5.11!
21 view cover	Mountain Music of Kentucky (1996) more music like this by Various Artists In 1959, John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers made field recordings in the mountains of Kentucky of Appalachian folk performers who were virtually unknown to the record-buying public. This is no-nonsense, sometimes raw stuff, with fiddlers, banjos, a cappella singers, and Baptist church choirs presenting folk standards, blues-influenced ... see all copies from $17.90! new only from $23.24!
22 view cover	Classic Old-Time Music (2003) more music like this by Various Artists The songs featured on Smithsonian/Folkways' Classic Old-Time Music were mostly recorded in the late '50s and early '60s (with a few scattered throughout the '70s) and celebrate many of the performers who not only toured the festival circuits at that time, but many who sowed the seeds of the entire folk revival. Old-timey legends like Dock Boggs, ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $6.00!
23 view cover	Don't Cry to Me (2004) more music like this by Jimmy Martin Jimmy Martin is bluegrass' proverbial loose cannon, an eccentric and unpredictable rebel working in a genre famous for preserving its conventions, and while he has undoubtedly made as many enemies as friends in the bluegrass community, no one can deny that he has been instrumental in shaping the very heart of the music. From his days as guitarist ... see all copies from $11.19! new only from $11.19!
24 view cover	From Spirituals to Swing: Carnegie Hall Concerts, 1938-1939 [3 CD Set] (1938) more music like this by Various Artists In 1938, jazz aficionado/promoter/producer John Hammond, Sr. had an idea for a visionary concert. This vision would take fruition as a presentation known as "From Spirituals to Swing," bringing together the connected history of African-American music running from gospel to blues to jazz.High-brow concerts of what was considered distinctly non-high ... see all copies from $15.55! new only from $28.90!
25 view cover	Railroad Bill (1999) more music like this by Etta Baker The "premier woman Piedmont blues guitar instrumentalist" is a wordy but accurate description of 87-year-old Etta Baker of Morganton, NC. One of the last pickers who was around when the music was first being recorded, Baker's 83 years of practice is manifested in these wonderful recordings of traditional folk ballads. One highlight follows another ... see all copies from $10.98! new only from $10.98!

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