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One Man Band
Pink Anderson: Carolina Medicine Show Hokum and Blues with Baby Tate
Roots of Black Music in America
This two volume-collection, is a survey of instrumental and vocal music from African cultures as well as from African American musicians in the southern United States. Producer Samuel Charters created the album with the intent to provide musical examples from "two worlds" through traditional offerings of African...
This two volume-collection, is a survey of instrumental and vocal music from African cultures as well as from African American musicians in the southern United States. Producer Samuel Charters created the album with the intent to provide musical examples from "two worlds" through traditional offerings of African tribal music, cultural roots that were forcefully suppressed during the period of slavery in America, and African American music evocat...
This two volume-collection, is a survey of instrumental and vocal music from African cultures as well as from African American musicians in the southern United States. Producer Samuel Charters created the album with the intent to provide musical examples from "two worlds" through traditional offerings of African tribal music, cultural roots that were forcefully suppressed during the period of slavery in America, and African American music evocative of the influence of its predecessors. 41 songs, 1.3 hours, with liner notes featuring an introduction by Samuel Charters, descriptions of songs, and examples of archival documents describing early African music and black music in the southern United States.
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Sea Island Folk Festival: Moving Star Hall Singers and Alan Lomax
Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection
Songs of Memphis Slim and "Wee Willie" Dixon
Sonny Terry - Harmonica and Vocal Solos
Sonny Terry's New Sound: Jawharp in Blues and Folk Music: With Brownie McGhee and J. C. Burris
Best known for his blues harmonica recordings, Sonny Terry joins friends Brownie McGhee and J.C. Burris to explore the range of the jawharp (also known as Jew’s harp or mouth harp) in blues and American folk music. According to producer Charles Edward Smith, Terry’s vocal responses to the sounds of the jawhar...
Best known for his blues harmonica recordings, Sonny Terry joins friends Brownie McGhee and J.C. Burris to explore the range of the jawharp (also known as Jew’s harp or mouth harp) in blues and American folk music. According to producer Charles Edward Smith, Terry’s vocal responses to the sounds of the jawharp, one of the world’s oldest musical instruments, recall traditional African and African-American call-and-response patterns, which i...
Best known for his blues harmonica recordings, Sonny Terry joins friends Brownie McGhee and J.C. Burris to explore the range of the jawharp (also known as Jew’s harp or mouth harp) in blues and American folk music. According to producer Charles Edward Smith, Terry’s vocal responses to the sounds of the jawharp, one of the world’s oldest musical instruments, recall traditional African and African-American call-and-response patterns, which influenced the blues music of Terry’s generation. 13 tracks, 45 minutes, with liner notes which include the history of the jawharp, Sonny Terry's musical background, and song descriptions.
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Studs Terkel's Weekly Almanac: Radio Programme, No. 4: Folk Music and Blues
Studs Terkel, the late great oral historian, was actually one of the first disc jockeys in the country to play folk recordings. Here he interviews two giants of the American music scene, Pete Seeger and Big Bill Broonzy, who also perform a variety of folk songs and blues.
Studs Terkel, the late great oral historian, was actually one of the first disc jockeys in the country to play folk recordings. Here he interviews two giants of the American music scene, Pete Seeger and Big Bill Broonzy, who also perform a variety of folk songs and blues.
There's Always Tomorrow
Recorded by Folkways in 1973, this lively album by Arbee Stidham recaptures his classic Southern Blues roots. Stidham says: "In doing this session, I thought back to my boyhood days when I was singing the Blues in and around my home town… when people was really living and playing the blues… " Frederick Ramsey...
Recorded by Folkways in 1973, this lively album by Arbee Stidham recaptures his classic Southern Blues roots. Stidham says: "In doing this session, I thought back to my boyhood days when I was singing the Blues in and around my home town… when people was really living and playing the blues… " Frederick Ramsey Jr. sketches Stidham’s long musical career in the liner notes and gives information about key songs.
