The New Lost City Ramblers were instrumental in bridging the gap between the young urban
folk musicians of the early '60s, who embraced the form and feel of old-time American music, and the last of the great rural singers and ...
Notwithstanding Pete Seeger's major-label contract with Columbia Records, which commenced in 1961, Folkways Records, the
tiny independent label for which he has recorded prolifically since 1950, continues to assemble albums out of its archive of unreleased tracks, and this is ...
Though he was a prolific recording artist, songwriter, sideman, and producer, Grammy-winner John Hartford's career
can't be summed up on a single disc; it would take a multi-volume box set to accomplish that. Initial and lasting fame was granted him ...
Columbia reissued two of Bob Dylan's early albums, Bob Dylan and The Times They a-Changin',
as a double-LP set in the late '60s. This isn't necessarily a bad way to acquire this music, but the packaging and fidelity on this ...
Smithsonian Folkways tackles the Great White North with its 72-minute ode to trappers, traders, and
vagabonds with Classic Canadian Songs. Like all SF collections, the heavily researched liner notes and archival photos are as compelling as the tracks themselves -- ...
The inclusion of Joan Baez's version of Joe Hill on the Woodstock album has been
single-handedly responsible for keeping Joe Hill in the public consciousness. Sad but true, for Joe Hill, poet, songwriter, and organizer, was the most popular intentionally ...
In his characteristically sardonic liner notes to this compilation of his earliest recordings, Dave Van
Ronk denies that he was ever a folksinger. While such a declaration may seem ludicrous on its face, Van Ronk's perspective contributes to an understanding ...
An odds-and-ends collection spanning 17 unreleased tracks recorded from 1944 to 1949, most being originals
and not just alternate takes, Long Ways to Travel is a fine addition to any Guthrie fan's collection. Started as a project in 1991 to ...