Smithsonian Folkways Special Collection on DeepDiscount

- Pure Religion & Bad Company
- Artist:
  Rev. Gary Davis
- Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 2/14/1992
- Features: CD
- The classic 1957 release from one of the greats of gospel blues, a rough diamond of hard, pure country gospel expression, at odds with the earthly concerns of the blues and yet entwined with the... more
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- The Blues in St. Louis, Vol. 3: Henry Townsend
- Artist:
  Henry Townsend
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- In the Blues in St. Louis, Volume 3, electric guitarist Henry Townsend plays familiar blues songs, accompanied by Tommy Bankhead on electric bass. Samuel Charters, who recorded the session in 1961,... more
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- Country Blues / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Originally released in 1959, The Country Blues features a range of styles and a collection of recordings not included in other Folkways compilations. This selection-mostly recorded between 1927 and... more
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- Vol. 2-Bourgeois Blues
- Artist:
  Leadbelly
- Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 3/18/1997
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- This is volume 2 of a projected 3-volume set of Lead Belly's performances recorded by Moses Asch during the 1940s. The original masters now reside in the Folkways Archive at the Smithsonian... more
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- Get on Board: Negro Folksongs By the Folkmasters
- Artist:
  Sonny Terry
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- This album by harmonica player Sonny Terry and guitarist Brownie McGhee, with Coyal McMahan on maracas features traditional blues songs, spirituals, and originals by the three... more
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- Blues Harp: An Instruction Method
- Artist:
  Tony Glover
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Tony "Little Sun" Glover (b. 1939) is a Minneapolis-born harmonica player and singer, most notably associated with guitarists "Spider" John Koerner and Dave "Snaker" Ray during the folk revival in... more
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- Pink Anderson: Carolina Medicine Show Hokum
- Artist:
  Pink Anderson
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- Pink Anderson (1900-1974) spent most of his life working as a roving entertainer in the small medicine shows that traveled throughout the South. His stage repertoire included blues, comedic songs,... more
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- Chicago Blues: Boogie Woogie and Blues
- Artist:
  Memphis Slim
- Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- The music on this recording is at once far-reaching and intimate. It has a quality enjoyed well beyond contemporary fans of this style of music, and yet this recording gives the listener the sense of... more
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- Rural Blues / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Taken from unreleased recordings, previous Folkways releases, and early blues recordings, this two-disc set offers an introduction to the vocal styles, ornamentation, and instrumentation of this... more
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- Memphis Slim and the Real Boogie-Woogie
- Artist:
  Memphis Slim
- Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- Peter Chatman Jr.., aka Memphis Slim, stomps out a "progressive boogie and blues" on the piano. Self-taught in the honky-tonk juke joints of Tennessee, he produced some of the most powerful... more
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- Church Songs: Sung & Played on the Piano By Little
- Artist:
  Little Brother Montgomery
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 3/11/2011
- Features: CD
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- Brownie McGhee Sings the Blues
- Artist:
  Brownie McGhee
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 3/11/2011
- Features: CD
- Piedmont blues singer and guitarist Brownie McGhee's voice rings clear over his strumming about love, cheating, and remembering his friend Big Bill Broonzy. Liner notes include song lyrics and brief... more
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- Folkways Years
- Artist:
  Lonnie Johnson
- Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 7/13/1992
- Features: CD
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- Roots: Rhythm & Blues / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Blues, Rock
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This compilation brings together recordings produced by Henry Hines and Al White for Lynn's Productions, and provides a musical snapshot of some of the bands popular in clubs, fraternities, and... more
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- Down at the Union Hall
- Artist:
  Kenny Winfree
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Collector Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Joe Glazer said of Kenny Winfree: "[He's] got a talent that looks easy but few folks can do it. He has [a] knack for writing catchy, moving songs with a message-songs that are easy to sing and easy... more
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- Hell Bound and Heaven Sent Blues
- Artist:
  Shortstuff Macon
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Recorded on the night of May 18, 1964 after a small concert at Bard College, Hell Bound and Heaven Sent Blues documents two blues singers and guitar players, Big Joe Williams and John Wesley "Short... more
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- Songs of Memphis Slim & Wee Willie Dixon
- Artist:
  Memphis Slim
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- This album features big-voiced blues pianist and singer Memphis Slim and legendary bassist Willie Dixon, who is credited with having helped create the Chicago blues sound. Several tracks from this... more
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- There's Always Tomorrow
- Artist:
  Arbee Stidham
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- 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... more
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- Furry Lewis
- Artist:
  Furry Lewis
- Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Walter E. "Furry" Lewis (1893-1981), was a Mississippi-born, Memphis-bred guitarist and singer whose early fame was based on his 1927 recordings for the Victor label. When the Depression ended most... more
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- Blues By Jazz Gillum Singing Playing His Harmonica
- Artist:
  Jazz Gillum
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- An influential figure in the growth of the Southern blues tradition, William "Jazz" Gillum (1904-1966) had the kind of life from which the blues spring. Orphaned, starved, threatened, shot at,... more
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- Cat-Iron Sings Blues and Hymns
- Artist:
  Cat Iron
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- This album presents what seem to be the two sides of singer Cat-Iron's repertoire: that of the blues musician and that of the converted Christian. As Frederic Ramsey, Jr.. writes, "Cat-Iron might be... more
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- Traditional Blues - Vol. 1
- Artist:
  Brownie McGhee
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This album presents a variety of blues, and in Brownie McGhee's singing are echoes of work and dance songs, as well as spirituals. Brownie himself once said, "I want to make music the way I know is... more
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- Traditional Blues - Vol. 2
- Artist:
  Brownie McGhee
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Charles Edward Smith, author of the album's notes, writes, "Few singers evoke as forcefully as Brownie the many-sidedness of heritage... sentiment and sex, humor and the solar plexus shots of bitter... more
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- Sonny Terry - Harmonica and Vocal Solos
- Artist:
  Sonny Terry
- Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- As a youth in North Carolina, Sonny Terry-who lost his sight during his teen years-never imagined he'd eventually find fame as a musician on record, at festivals, and on Broadway in the musical,... more
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- Sonny Terry's Washboard Band
- Artist:
  Sonny Terry
- Genre: Blues, Blues Traditional
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- Blind harmonica player and singer Sonny Terry recorded a few records during the 1930s and 1940s, but found wider fame in the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. This recording features a washboard... more
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