Summary: 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 tradition-bearers featured on the album share stories of love, heartache, conflict, spirituality, and all that is unique and beautiful in Jola culture over the rolling lilt of the instrument. An important...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN EAR

Brown, Alison

Contents: Wind the clock -- Choro 'nuff / (feat. Anat Cohen) -- Foggy morning breaking / (feat. Steve Martin) -- Sweet sixteenths / (feat. Sierra Hull) -- Sun and water (Here comes the sun/Waters of March) -- Old shatterhand -- Regalito / (feat. Sharon Isbin) -- Banjobim -- Tall hog at the trough / (feat. Stuart Duncan) -- Porches / (feat. Kronos Quartet)

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY BRO

Contents: [Disc 1]. Chapter 1. [Live at the Boarding House, May 1, 1974]. Salty dog blues -- Doc's talking blues -- Blue yodel no. 1 (T for Texas) -- Miss the Mississippi and you -- Wabash cannonball -- Nancy Rowland -- Solid gone -- Tennessee stud -- Frosty morn -- Matchbox blues -- Mama don't allow no music -- Deep elem blues.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK WAT

Coyne, Éamonn

Contents: Introduction -- A short history of the tenor banjo -- Parts of the tenor banjo -- Strings and tuning -- Holding the tenor banjo -- The plectrum -- Picking -- Basic music theory -- Fingering/the fretboard -- The D string -- The A string -- The D major scale -- Rhythm -- Oh! Susanna -- Egan's polka -- The E string -- Johnny Leary's -- The rolling waves -- The G major scale -- The ashplant -- The...

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC 787.88 CON

Contents: Night train to Valhalla / John Fahey (2:14) -- The ice miner / Leo Kottke (1:54) -- Anyhow / Leo Kottke (2:04) -- April in Cambridge / Peter Walker (3:11) -- Water verses / Harry taussig (1:52) -- Children's dance / Harry Taussig (3:48) -- Little Maggie / Sandy Bull (4:08) -- On the banks of the Owchita / John Fahey (3:50) -- Gypsy song / Peter Walker (3:41) -- Raga (1) / Max Ochs (4:53) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK THO

Stanley, Ralph.

Contents: Disc 1. How mountain girls can love -- Shouting on the hills of glory -- Pretty Polly -- The window up above -- I just got wise -- If that's the way you feel -- Nobody's love is like mine -- Memories of Mother -- The lonesome river -- Old love letters -- She's more to be pitied -- When I wake up to sleep no more -- Another night -- Gold watch and chain -- Thy burdens are greater than mine --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rebel 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY STA

Mumford & Sons (Musical group)

Summary: The eagerly anticipated debut album from British folk-indie quartet Mumford & Sons features the single Little Lion Man. This CD is full of beautiful harmonies and rollicking banjo chords.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MUM