Amidon, Sam

Contents: Fortune -- Ghosts -- Juma mountain -- Another story told -- Gendel in 5 -- Blackbird -- Trouble in mind -- Warren -- April (featuring Milford Graves).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn's duo project is as unlikely, perhaps, as it was inevitable-a manifest sonic consequence of politics and vibrations commingling across continents. There is a directness in the musical duo format that makes it such a good vehicle for melodic conversations between close friends who obviously listen to each other with an athletic respect matched by their respective...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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MacCarry, Noel

Summary: Presents the life of the folk singer and social activist, and discusses his role in the union, anti-war, civil rights, and environmental movements and the opposition he sometimes aroused for his radical views.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2017

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Summary: Chronicles the life of Pete Seeger, the American singer/songwriter, who was a leader of the mid-20th century American folk music revival and wrote some of its best known songs. Also looks at his work as a labor and political activist and his experiences of being picketed, blacklisted, and banned from commercial television. Features archival footage and interviews with his family, including wife...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Live Nation Worldwide 2007

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Contents: Thank you, Lord (Gospel church, Harlem) (4:25) -- If I had my way (Reverend Gary Davis) (4:42) -- Have you ever been mistreated (Yvonne Hunter) (1:35) -- I can't be satisfied (Muddy Waters) (2:41) -- Roll on John (Bob Dylan) (3:23) -- Man of constant sorrow (Roscoe Holcomb) (2:55) -- Hicks farewell (Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton) (4:27) -- Come all you tenderhearted (Carter Stanley) (3:34) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2001

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New Christy Minstrels

Contents: disc 1. The old-timer (2:44) -- Denver (2:59) -- Liza Lee (2:07) -- Three wheels on my wagon (2:58) -- Californio (2:07) -- Deep blue sea (3:08) -- Stormy (2:48) -- Song of the pious itinerant (2:25) -- The cotton pickers' song (2:32) -- This ol' riverboat (2:54) -- Oh! Shenando (2:27) -- Silly ol' summertime (2:13) -- Mighty Mississippi (2:28) -- Joe Magarac (2:49) -- The wheeler dealers...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Special Products 1997

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Marcus, Greil

Summary: "Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen. In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022

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White, Hy

Contents: Down in the valley -- Old Paint -- I know my love -- This old man -- Buffalo gals -- The sow took the measles -- Billy boy -- Old Chisholm Trail -- E-ri-ee -- Goodnight, Irene -- Tom Dooley -- The wreck of the John B. -- Careless love -- Drill, ye tarriers, drill -- I know where I'm going -- Cindy -- The frozen logger -- John Henry -- Aunt Rhody -- Oh, Susanna -- Red wagon -- The roving kind --...

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Music 1959

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Summary: Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, and continued to farm the land until the late 1920s when he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, devising his visual language to depict his memories of slavery and scenes of a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Bedouine

Contents: Nice and quiet -- One of these days -- Back to you -- Dusty eyes -- Solitary daughter -- Summer cold -- Mind's eye -- You kill me -- Heart take flight -- Skyline.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Andersen, Eric

Contents: CD one. Everything ain't been said -- Dusty box car wall -- (We were) Foolish like the flowers -- Dream to Rimbaud -- Secrets -- I will wait -- Waves of freedom -- Mama tried / feat. David Bromberg previously unreleased -- Is it really love at all -- Florentine -- Blue River / feat. Joni Mitchell -- Pearl's goodtime blues -- Woman, she was gentle / feat. Joan Baez and Leon Russell -- Moonchild...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Shovels and Rope (Musical group)

Contents: I know (3:39) -- Botched execution (3:23) -- St. Anne's parade (4:22) -- The last hawk (4:14) -- Buffalo nickel (4:03) -- Mourning song (4:13) -- Invisible man (3:43) -- Johnny come outside (3:50) -- Missionary ridge (3:31) -- San Andreas Fault line blues (3:16) -- BWYR (3:14) -- Eric's birthday (1:21) -- This ride (3:31).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: New West Records 2016

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Summary: The scrambled states of America. Disenchanted with their fixed places on the map, the states decide to swap spots in hopes that each can get to see a different part of the country and do something different for a change. Full of facts and fun, children will have a geography lesson like never before. This land is your land. America's favorite folk song sung by Arlo Guthrie, is brought to life by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods 2003

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Summary: Songs of Our Native Daughters gathers together kindred musicians Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell in song and sisterhood to communicate with their forebears. Drawing on and reclaiming early minstrelsy and banjo music, these musicians reclaim, recast, and spotlight the often unheard and untold history of their ancestors, whose stories remain vital and alive...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Profiles the life and career of the 1960s folk iconoclast Phil Ochs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2010

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Blount, Jake

Contents: The Psalms of the Sentinel. Take me to the water/Prayer (3:38) ; The downward road (3:36) ; Didn't it rain (3:05) ; Tangle eye blues (3:51) -- The Psalms of the Gravedigger. Parable (2:20) ; Death have mercy (2:59) ; City called Heaven (4:52) ; They are waiting for me (4:27) -- The Psalms of the Teacher. Psalms (2:54) ; Just as well to get ready, you got to die (3:08) ; Give up the world (4:09)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Crane Wives (Musical group)

Contents: Can't have it all (3:06) -- The diving bell (3:44) -- New colors (3:26) -- Caleb trask (4:37) -- Counting sheep (4:01) -- Hole in the silver lining (4:07) -- Safe ship, harbored (5:06) -- Naked, the night falls (2:48) -- Ancient history (2:42) -- October (4:17) -- The crooked, the cradle (3:03) -- I ain't done (3:41).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: The Crane Wives 2011

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Dave Rawlings Machine (Musical group)

Contents: The weekend -- Short haired woman blues -- The trip -- Bodysnatchers -- The last pharaoh -- Candy -- Pilgrim (You can't go home).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Acony 2015

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Kingston Trio

Contents: Tom Dooley.--Bad man's blunder.--The Tijuana jail.--A worried man.--Everglades.--Ally ally oxen free.--Lemon tree.--Jane, Jane, Jane.--El matador.--Reverend Mr. Black.--Desert Pete.--Where have all the flowers gone.--M.T.A.--Greenback dollar.--Blowin' in the wind.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol 1987

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Watson, Willie

Contents: Midnight special (4:39) -- Long John Dean (2:55) -- Stewball (3:47) -- Mother Earth (3:36) -- Mexican cowboy (3:54) -- James Alley blues (4:06) -- Rock salt and nails (3:47) -- Bring it with you when you come (2:47) -- Kitty puss (3:16) -- Keep it clean (3:35).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Curtis, Catie.

Contents: Soulfully -- I don't cry anymore -- River winding -- Falling silent in the dark -- Heroes -- Forgiveness -- I still want to -- Memphis -- The truth is -- Do unto others -- Larry -- Come to me.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Guardian Records 1997

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Leadbelly

Contents: Fannin Street (3:01) -- Bourgeois blues (2:17) -- Easy rider (2:50) -- Alabama bound (2:16) -- Don't you love your daddy no more? (3:01) -- Gallis pole (2:44) -- Leavin' blues (1:29) -- Midnight special (2:01) -- T.B. blues (3:42) -- Linin' track (1:14) -- Julie Ann Johnson (:40) -- John Henry (2:24) -- Jim Crow blues (3:29) -- Jim Crow #2 (2:42) -- Good morning blues #2 (2:08) -- Abraham...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1997

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Murdock, Lee.

Contents: Deep blue horizon (5:37) -- Hangin' Johnnie (2:39) -- The longing that I feel (4:57) -- The stomach robber (2:48) -- Below Niagara Falls (2:40) -- Voices across the water (5:42) -- We have to go out (5:10) -- Rio Grande (4:37) -- The mules that walked the Fo'c's'le deck (3:49) -- Queen of the beach (4:31) -- Red iron ore ; Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (9:12) -- Shenandore (2:26) -- Let the...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Depot Recordings 1997

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