71st ANNUAL OLD FIDDLER'S CONVENTION
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2-CD set. Disc 1 features highlights of 2006 festivities. Disc 2 contains selections from 2006 Youth and 41st Annual 1976 Fiddlers' Convention. 50 tracks in all.
HER-CD723
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$15.95
72nd ANNUAL OLD FIDDLER'S CONVENTION
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2 CD set recorded live at Galax, Virginia in August 2007. Disc 1 features highlights of the 2007 festivities, while Disc 2 contains selections of 2007 Youth and the 42nd Annual 1977 Fiddlers' Convention. 61 total tracks.
HER-CD724
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$15.95
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hot platter!A TREASURY OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS FIELD RECORDINGS
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early tracks by E.C. Ball, Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie, David "Honeyboy" Edwards and more.
ROUN-CD1500
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$13.95
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A TRIBUTE TO THE APPALACHIAN STRING BAND MUSIC FESTIVAL -- CLIFFTOP, WEST VIRGINIA
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with Melvin Wine, Leftwich & Higginbotham, Dan Gellert, Volo Bogtrotters, Rhythm Rats, Ill-Mo Boys, Charlie Walden & Patt Plunkett, and many more! Produced by Ray Alden.
CHUB-CD1001
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$13.95
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ALAN LOMAX: POPULAR SONGBOOK
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Original field recordings of songs later made popular by such artists as Led Zeppelin, Moby, Miles Davis, The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, more. The actual recording artists include Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Memphis Slim, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Bill Broonzy, Bessie Jones, Vera Ward Hall, others. Contains a previously unreleased version of one of the earliest recordings of "House Of The Rising Sun."
ROUN-CD1863
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$13.95
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ALWAYS LIFT HIM UP: A TRIBUTE TO BLIND ALFRED REED
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Recording commemorating the singer/songwriter/fiddler's induction into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame. With Tim & Mollie O'Brien, Little Jimmy Dickens, Ray Benson, Kathy Mattea, Larry "Junk Food Junkie" Groce, Dwight Diller & John Morris, Staats & Shafer, The Carpenter Ants, The Nichols Family and more.
PRPA-CD006
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$14.95
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AMERICAN PRIMITIVE VOL. II: PRE-WAR REVENANTS 1897-1939
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2 CDs, 50 tracks with a deluxe booklet -- another amazing collection of the most obscure commercial recordings of early Americana: the NuGrape Twins, Bayless Rose, the Salty Dog Four, Geeshie Wiley, the Mississippi Moaner, Blues Birdhead, the Bubbling Over Five, Pigmeat Terry, Mattie May Thomas and many others!
RVN-CD214
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$28.95
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hot platter!ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC: EDITED BY HARRY SMITH
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Boxed set of 6 CDs and book. CD #6 is enhanced with photos, interviews, and historical film footage of Smith's films, paintings, and folk art collection. 1952 reissue. No additional discount
FOLKW-CD40090
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$69.95
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APPALACHIAN PICKING SOCIETY
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2004 -- One-of-a-kind session of originals and classics with the cream of Nashville's purveyors of old-time mountain music: Alison Krauss, Bryan Sutton, Butch Baldassari, Chris Thile, Dan Tyminski, dulcimer champion David Schnaufer, Dirk Powell, fingerstyle ace Peter Huttlinger, Stuart Duncan and Tim O'Brien.
WINH-CD64198
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ART OF FIELD RECORDING: 50 YEARS OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC DOCUMENTED BY ART ROSENBAUM
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24 cuts, songs, tunes and true-roots Americana collected by Art and Margo Rosenbaum, not to be heard anywhere else! A "Sampler CD" of the forthcoming Dust-to-Digital five-CD set of music collected in the field by the Rosenbaums: Sister Fleeta Mitchell, Buell Kazee, Rev. Howard Finster, Gordon Tanner, fiddler John Summers, bluesman Shirley Griffith and many others.
DTD-CD007
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$14.95
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ART OF FIELD RECORDING: VOL. I
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2009 GRAMMY WINNER!! 4-CD box set. Recorded by Art Rosenbaum from 1956-2007. Including spirituals, hymns, old-time tunes, bottleneck blues, fiddle dance music, mountain ballads, banjo tunes, and hammer-and-pick work songs. Paintings and drawings by Art and photographs by Margo Newmark Rosenbaum. No additional discount
DTD-CD008
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$59.95
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ART OF FIELD RECORDING: VOL. II
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4-CD box set packaged in an LP-sized box. Recorded by Art Rosenbaum from 1956-2007. Including spirituals, hymns, old-time tunes, bottleneck blues, fiddle dance music, mountain ballads, banjo tunes, and hammer-and-pick work songs. With 96-page book containing essays and annotations by Art, and over 100 illustrations and photographs by Art and his wife Margo. The discs are divided into accompanied, unaccompanied, sacred, and a survey disc that samples the gamut. No additional discount
DTD-CD012
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$59.95
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AT THIS STAGE... 30 YEARS AT THE WHEATLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL
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A choice selection from three decades of Michigan's perennially popular fall music bash! The Lost World String Band, Robin & Linda Williams, Tim & Mollie O'Brien, Dewey Balfa, Blue Highway, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Chicken Chokers, Johnny Gimble and more. Enhanced CD with extra stuff!
WPM-CD201
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$14.95
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BACK ROADS TO COLD MOUNTAIN
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A collection of traditional tracks selected by John Cohen, music consultant to the film "Cold Mountain." With Dock Boggs, Bill Monroe, Roscoe Holcomb, Fiddlin' John Carson, Tommy Jarrell, Joe & Odell Thompson and more -- includes a 36-page booklet with historic photos.
FOLKW-CD40149
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$14.95
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BANJO GATHERING
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2 CDs, 50 tracks -- "100% pure old-time banjo; unobscured, unaccompanied & unadulterated!" A five-string feast of solo banjo from a galaxy of today's finest players: Mike Seeger, Cathy Fink, Paul Brown, Dan Gellert, Alice Gerrard, John Cohen, Tom Sauber, Pete Sutherland, Bruce Molsky, John McCutcheon, Rafe Stefanini, Gail Gillespie, and on and on! With tunings and notes on the tunes, too. Produced by Steve Baughman; proceeds to benefit the Swannanoa Gathering Scholarship Fund.
TALLTR-CD07
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$17.95
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hot platter!BLACK BANJO SONGSTERS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
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32 tracks recorded in the field by Cece Conway and Scott Odell 1970-98 -- features Joe and Odell Thompson, Dink Roberts, Etta Baker and others.
FOLKW-CD40079
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$14.95
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CLASSIC LABOR SONGS
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27 songs of the American labor movement over the 20th century. Including "Too Old To Work," "Which Side Are You On?," "I'm A Union Card," and more. With Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips, Joe Glazer, the Almanac Singers, and others.
FOLKW-CD40166
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$11.95
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CLASSIC MOUNTAIN SONGS FROM SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
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Special low-priced release with more than an hour of great traditional music featuring Clarence Ashley, Dock Boggs, Doc and Merle Watson, Roscoe Holcomb and many others.
FOLKW-CD40094
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$11.95
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CLASSIC OLD TIME MUSIC FROM SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
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With Doc Watson, The New Lost City Ramblers, Dock Boggs, Wade Ward, Andy Cahan, Clark Kessinger and many others.
FOLKW-CD40093
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$11.95
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CLASSIC OLD-TIME FIDDLE
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38 tracks compiled by old-time fiddler Jake Krack and archivist Jeff Place, bringing together Appalachian masters such as Clark Kessinger, Tommy Jarrell, Eck Robertson, Wade Ward, Melvin Wine, and others, all on one CD. Features "Blackberry Blossom," "Little Brown Jug," "Dance All Night," "Sally Goodin" "Billy In The Lowground," and more.
FOLKW-CD40193
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$11.95
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CLASSIC RAILROAD SONGS FROM SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
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36-page booklet, 29 classic tracks: "Freight Train," "Drill Ye Tarriers Drill," "Lonesome Train," "Kassie Jones" and more. Leadbelly, Elizabeth Cotten, Cisco Houston, Doc Watson, Woody Gutherie, and others.
FOLKW-CD40192
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$11.95
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CLASSIC SOUTHERN GOSPEL
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22 bluegrass and gospel tracks by classic masters of the genre: Bill Monroe, The Watson Family, Dock Boggs, and others. With 20+ page booklet.
FOLKW-CD40137
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$11.95
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CLOSE TO HOME: OLD TIME MUSIC FROM MIKE SEEGER'S COLLECTION
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74 min. of previously unreleased recordings featuring Snuffy Jenkins, Arthur Smith, Maybelle Carter, Elizabeth Cotten, others.
FOLKW-CD40097
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$14.95
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COAL DIGGING BLUES: SONGS OF WEST VIRGINIA MINERS
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Songs collected by George Korson when he traveled to mining communities in northern and eastern West Virginia in the 1940s, that bring together gospel, country, and blues influences, and offer background into the life of the coal miner. Includes booklet of detailed notes on the performers, their songs, and the history of coal-camp songs in West Virginia.
WVU-CD08
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$13.95
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COME TO THE MOUNTAIN: OLD TIME MUSIC FOR MODERN TIMES
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22 tracks of old-time music for the new generation including Corey Harris's "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground," Fiddle Fever's "Ashokan Farewell," Alison Krauss and Union Station's "There Is A Reason," and more.
ROUN-CD0547
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$13.95
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COUNTRY BOY'S DREAM: COUNTRY, WESTERN, BLUEGRASS & INSTRUMENTAL CLASSICS
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33 selections culled only from the Bear family catalog, featuring a taste of obscure tracks along with well-known hits. Including tracks from Carl Perkins, Ray Campi, Leon Chappel, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, Cousin Emmy, Molly O'Day, Leon McAuliffe, Bud Isaacs, more. With 16-page booklet including rare, unpublished photos.
BEAR-CD17032
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$7.95
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DARK HOLLER: OLD LOVE SONGS AND BALLADS
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1960 reissue highlighting balladeers Dillard Chandler, Cass Wallin, Dellie Norton, Lisha Shelton, and others. Contains 26 tracks, plus a bonus DVD of John Cohen's classic film "The End Of An Old Song." With 36 page booklet.
FOLKW-CD40159
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$14.95
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DESPERATE MAN BLUES: DISCOVERING THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC
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18 classics of American roots music from the 78 RPM era, as featured in the documentary film of the same name, concerning the notorious record collector Joe Bussard. Blind Willie Johnson "Dark Was The Night," Willie McTell "Statesboro Blues," Carter Family "John Hardy," Robert Johnson "Cross Roads," Clarence Ashley "Coo Coo Bird," Lewis Brothers, Uncle Dave Macon, Lonnie Johnson and more!
DTD-CD005
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$14.95
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hot platter!DOWN IN THE BASEMENT: JOE BUSSARD'S TREASURE TROVE OF VINTAGE 78s
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Now in jewel-case packaging, 24 rare gems from the king of record collectors! Blues, jazz, string bands, country, Cajun and gospel: The Stripling Brothers, Big Bill, James Cole's Washboard Four, Bessie Brown, Fields Ward & The Grayson County Railsplitters and more -- includes a 28-page full-color booklet.
OLDHAT-CD1004
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$16.95
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EARLY COUNTRY RADIO
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4 CDs, 80 tracks 1936-51, genuine radio broadcasts from the golden era! Two full CDs feature the Carter Family, the other two feature shows from Charlie Monroe, Roy Hall & his Blue Ridge Entertainers, Mainer's Mountaineers, Cowboy Slim Rinehart, and Hank Williams and his Drifting Cowboys. More than five hours of music!
JSP-CD7757
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$26.95
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hot platter!EARLY MANDOLIN CLASSICS, VOL. 1
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with Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers, Yank Rachell with Sleepy John Estes & more from the 20s and 30s.
ROUN-CD1050
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$13.95
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ECHOES OF THE OZARKS VOL. 1
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Old-time recordings of the Ozarks, ca. 1926-1933, newly remastered from 78s, some for the first time. Includes Morrison Bros., Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers, Luke Hignight's Ozark Strutters, Fiddlin' Sam Long and more. Includes extra material that did not appear on County's LP collection.
out-of-stock, more coming soon -- normally ships within 20 days
COUY-CD3506
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$12.95
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ECHOES OF THE OZARKS VOL. 2
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More old-time gems rescued from 78's. Includes Dr. Smith's Champion Hoss Hair Pullers, Hiter Covin, Arkansas Barefoot Boys and more. Includes selections that did not appear on County's LP issues.
COUY-CD3507
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$14.95
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FACE A FROWNING WORLD: AN E.C. BALL MEMORIAL ALBUM
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Ball, of Rugby, Virginia, drove a school bus, ran a service station, and, with his wife Orna, made some of the most joyful, eerie, affecting, and enduring traditional country music around. They sang ballads, comic songs, and mountain gospel. This tribute features Jolie Holland, Jon Langford, Michael Hurley, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, more. Release date 12/08/2009
on order, expected arrival date 12/08/09
TOMPKINS-CD2288
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$13.25
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FRIENDS OF OLD TIME MUSIC: THE FOLK ARRIVAL 1961-65
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3 CDs, 55 tracks of mostly never-before-released live concert recordings from NYC, showcasing many legendary traditional musicians to city audiences for the first time! Dock Boggs, Hobart Smith, Doc Watson, the New Lost City Ramblers, the Stanley Brothers, Roscoe Holcomb, Mississippi John Hurt, Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, Maybelle Carter and many others.
FOLKW-CD40160
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$32.95
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GASTONIA GALLOP: COTTON MILL SONGS & HILLBILLY BLUES - PIEDMONT TEXTILE WORKERS ON RECORD
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24 rare, digitally remastered tracks highlighting music of the working class from Gaston County, North Carolina 1927-1931. Featuring protest songs, folk songs, ragtime tunes, Tin Pan Alley songs, minstrel pieces, ballads, and blues. Instrumentation includes guitar, banjo, mandolin, and harmonica. Features Carolina Twins, Three Tobacco Tags, David McCarn, Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles, others.
OLDHAT-CD1007
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$16.95
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GOLD RUSH AT COPPER CREEK
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2 CD set offers up a collection of musicians and singers from the Copper Creek label. Features James Leva, Kathy Kallick, Patent Pending and more.
COPPER-CD6001
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$5.95
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GOOD FOR WHAT AILS YOU: MUSIC OF THE MEDICINE SHOWS, 1926-1937
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2 CDs, 48 old-time classics in a beautiful trifold digipak -- plus a copiously illustrated 72-page booklet with extensive notes, period photos and much more. A fabulous musical document of the old-time medicine shows, a remnant of a bygone era, with Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett, Pink Anderson, Sam McGee, the Memphis Sheiks, Emmett Miller, Carolina Tar Heels, Henry Thomas, Mainer's Mountaineers, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Charlie Poole and many others!
OLDHAT-CD1005
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$24.95
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HARD TIMES IN THE COUNTRY
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Collection of roots music performances from the '20s and '30s, showing with satire, humor and emotion what it was like to be "down and out in the rural South". With Uncle Dave Macon, Lowe Stokes, Frank Hutchison and others.
COUY-CD3527
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$12.95
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hot platter!HARRY SMITH'S ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC VOL. 4
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2 CDs in a 96-page hardbound book; the anthology Smith planned to issue but never did! 28 tracks of vintage recordings featuring the Carter Family, Lead Belly, Robert Johnson, the Monroe Brothers and many others.
RVN-CD211
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$28.95
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HILLBILLY BLUES: 25 ORIGINAL MONO RECORDINGS 1929-47
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With The Allen Brothers, Ashley & Foster, The Carter Family, The Shelton Brothers, Dick Justice, Hartman's Heartbreakers, Jimmie Rodgers, others.
ASV-CD5361
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$11.95
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I BELONG TO THIS BAND: EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS OF SACRED HARP RECORDINGS
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30 cuts from 1922 to the present day; a companion to the feature documentary "Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp." The first overview of this unique southern Appalachian devotional harmony singing throughout its entire recorded history! "The Christian's Hope," "Jubilee," "Christian Soldier," "Cuba," "Concord," "The Good Old Way," "Marlborough," much more.
DTD-CD006
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$14.95
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IF YOU AIN'T GOT THE DO-RE-MI: SONGS OF RAGS AND RICHES
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27 American roots cuts featuring singers and songs of depicting the human condition. Including Pete Seeger's "Empty Pocket Blues," the Stoneman Family's "Black Dog Blues," Bascom Lamar Lunsford's "Last Gold Dollar," Josh White's "One Meat Ball," and more.
FOLKW-CD40195
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$14.95
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IN THE PINES: TAR HEEL FOLK SONGS & FIDDLE TUNES, OLD-TIME MUSIC OF NORTH CAROLINA 1926-1936
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Yet another release of treasures from this independent label. Concentrating on fiddlers, guitarists, banjo pickers, string bands, family singers of the era: Charlie Poole, Dixon Brothers, "Dock" Walsh, Clarence Greene, Red Fox Chasers, Wilmer Watts, Ben Jarrell, Frank Jenkins, Nance Family, and many more. Contains an array of old-time tunes, folk songs, murder ballads, minstrel music, gospel hymns, railroad songs, mountain blues, and showpiece instrumentals. Includes a 24 page, full color booklet with rare photos, and extensive liner notes.
OLDHAT-CD1006
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$16.95
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JOHN WORK III: RECORDING BLACK CULTURE
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The unveiling of Work's private fieldwork collection from the late 1930s and early 1940s is a selection of string bands, quartets, Sacred Harp singing, blues and gospel. 14 tracks, with extensive liner notes by Bruce Nemerov. Including the Fairfield Four, Frank Patterson, Nathan Frazier, an interview with Muddy Waters and more.
SFR-CD104
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$13.25
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KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN MUSIC: CLASSIC RECORDINGS OF THE 1920s AND '30s
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7 CDs with 167 tracks ranging from fiddle and banjo to ballads and blues. Includes a 5"x 11" book with copious notes, photographs, etc. With Burnett & Rutherford, Doc Roberts, James Howard, Kentucky Mountain Chorusbusters, Asa Martin, Hack's String Band, and so much more. Think of how many 78's you'd have to find to hear all this! No additional discount
YAZ-CD2200
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$84.95
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MASTERS OF THE OLD-TIME COUNTRY AUTOHARP
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38 gospels and breakdowns, some played as instrumentals, including "Shortening Bread," "All I Got's Gone," "Red River Valley," and more. With Ernest Stoneman, Kilby Snow, and Kenneth & Neriah Benfield.
FOLKW-CD40115
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$14.95
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MOUNTAIN BLUES, BALLADS AND STRING BANDS 1927-1938
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4 CDs with 100 tracks of classic old-time tunes and songs, country blues and popular music of the period. With Riley Puckett, Clarence Green, Prince Albert Hunt, Ashley's Melody Men, Dykes Magic City Trio, Carolina Tar Heels, The Freeny Harmonizers and much more at a great low price!
JSP-CD7740
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$26.95
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MOUNTAIN FROLIC: RARE OLD TIMEY CLASSICS 1924-1937
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4 CDs, 101 rare gems from The Crockett Family, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Carolina Tar Heels, Buell Kazee, Smoky Mountain Ramblers, Piedmont Log Rollers, others.
JSP-CD77100
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$26.95
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MOUNTAIN GOSPEL: THE SACRED ROOTS OF COUNTRY MUSIC
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4 CDs, 100 tracks 1926-41: Ernest Stoneman's "Going Down The Valley," Coon Creek Girls "Sowing On The Mountain," Wade Mainer "The Precious Jewel," Alfred Karnes, Lubbock Texas Quartet, Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, Bill Carlisle, Sons of the Pioneers, Ernest Phipps & his Holiness Quartet and many more!
on order, expected arrival date 12/08/09
JSP-CD7755
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$26.95
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MOUNTAIN JOURNEY: STARS OF OLD TIME MUSIC
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21 tracks including Ola Belle Reed's "Wayfaring Pilgrim," Mike Seeger & Etta Baker's "Cripple Creek," Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard's "Two Soldiers" and others.
ROUN-CD0546
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$13.95
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hot platter!MOUNTAIN MUSIC OF KENTUCKY
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A must for any collector of Appalachian music! A 2-CD set that includes all of the original classic LP from 1960 plus 60 minutes of previously unreleased material, two hours in all. Featuring the voice and banjo of the great Roscoe Holcomb recorded at home in Kentucky.
FOLKW-CD40077
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$20.95
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hot platter!MUSIC FROM THE LOST PROVINCES: OLD-TIME STRINGBANDS FROM ASHE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA & VICINITY, 1927-31
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Reissue of 78 RPM recordings featuring Grayson and Whitter, Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers, Ephraim Woodie & The Henpecked Husbands, others. Most tracks have not been released on other anthologies.
OLDHAT-CD1001
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$16.95
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MUSIC OF COAL: MINING SONGS FROM THE APPALACHIAN COALFIELDS
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Hardbound book including 2 CDs. Book details lyrics and short history for the songs and songwriters featured on the accompanied CDs. Songs performed by Dock Boggs, Hazel Dickens, The Carter Family, Merle Travis, Ralph Stanley & Dwight Yoakam, Darrell Scott, many others. 69-page book includes historical photographs. 48 tracks in all.
LONESOME-CD071
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$34.95
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MY ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS VOL. 1: EARLY AMERICAN RURAL MUSIC - BADMEN BALLADS AND HELLRAISING SONGS
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"Classic Recordings of the 1920s and `30s" including Clarence Ashley, Tommy Johnson, Dock Boggs, Cannon's Jug Stompers, the Fruit Jar Guzzlers, Peg Leg Howell and much more!
YAZ-CD2039
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$15.95
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MY ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS VOL. 2: EARLY AMERICAN RURAL MUSIC - BADMEN BALLADS AND HELLRAISING SONGS
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"Classic Recordings of the 1920s and `30s" including Mississippi John Hurt, Uncle Dave Macon, Big Bill Broonzy, Vernon Dalhart, the Georgia Crackers and much more!
YAZ-CD2040
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$15.95
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NASHVILLE: THE EARLY STRING BANDS, VOL.1
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Commemorating the early Grand Ole Opry era of 1925 Nashville. Includes songs from Uncle Dave Macon, Sam & Kirk McGee, Arthur Smith Trio, Sid Harkreader & Grady Moore and more.
COUY-CD3521
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$12.95
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OLD MOUNTAIN: STRINGBAND SONGS AND TUNES
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"25 Original Mono Recordings 1927-31" with The Arkansas Barefoot Boys, Uncle Dave Macon, The Perry County Music Makers, The Skillet Lickers, Charlie Poole, The Corn Cob Crushers and more.
ASV-CD5577
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$11.95
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OLD TIME MOUNTAIN BANJO
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CD reissue with additional tracks. Sides issued on 78s in the 1920s and '30s, with a 16-page booklet of photos and notes by Bob Buckingham. Charlie Poole, B.F. Shelton, Frank Jenkins, Uncle Dave Macon, Coon Creek Girls, Clarence Ashley, Bascom Lamar Lunceford -- 18 classics in all!
COUY-CD3533
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$12.95
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OLD TIME MUSIC OF WEST VIRGINIA VOL. 1
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Remastered early recordings featuring The Corn Cob Crushers, The Fruit Jar Guzzlers, The Williamson Brothers & Curry, The Tweedy Brothers, Blind Alfred Reed and others.
COUY-CD3518
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$12.95
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OLD TIME MUSIC OF WEST VIRGINIA VOL. 2
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Remastered early recordings featuring Cleve Chaffin, The West Virginia Ramblers, The West Virginia Coon Hunters, The Kessinger Brothers, Dick Justice, Byrd Moore & Jess Johnston, others.
COUY-CD3519
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$12.95
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OLD-TIME MOUNTAIN BLUES: RURAL CLASSICS 1927-1939
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19 tracks of commercially-recorded performances of white artists performing blues music: Sam McGee, Dick Justice, Dock Boggs, Frank Hutchison, the Leake County Revelers, Jimmie Tarlton and many others.
COUY-CD3528
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$12.95
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OLD-TIME MOUNTAIN GUITAR
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1926-31 -- Sam McGee, Frank Hutchison, David Miller, Melvin Dupree, Roy Harvey, Leonard Copeland and more.
COUY-CD3512
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$12.95
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OLD-TIME MUSIC OF SOUTH-WEST VIRGINIA
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Includes cuts from Dock Boggs, Emry Arthur, Fiddlin' Powers & Family, Byrd Moore and more.
COUY-CD3523
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$12.95
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OLD-TIME MUSIC ON THE AIR VOL. 2
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Second Rounder collection of contemporary old-time music from smaller labels, this time with an emphasis on the West and Midwest.
out-of-stock, more coming soon -- normally ships within 20 days
ROUN-CD0391
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$13.95
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OLD-TIME TEXAS STRING BANDS VOL. 1 - TEXAS FAREWELL
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With tracks from Henry Gilliland, Eck Robertson, Lewis Brothers, East Texas Serenaders, and more. Features "Far In The Mountain", "Acorn Stomp", "Arkansas Traveler" and more.
COUY-CD3524
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$12.95
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OLD-TIME TEXAS STRING BANDS VOL. 2 - DALLAS BOUND
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With tracks from Oscar & Doc Harper, Red Headed Fiddlers, Captain M.J. Bonner, and more. Features "Possum Rag", "Sweetest Flower", "Billy In The Low Ground" and more.
COUY-CD3525
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$12.95
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OZARK FOLKSONGS
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Collection of songs and ballads never before recorded by any singers. The music was captured by Vance Randolph in 1941-42 and has never been commercially available before now.
ROUN-CD1108
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$16.95
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PARAMOUNT OLD TIME RECORDINGS
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4 CD, 100 sides culled from the Joe Bussard Collection, including the Kentucky Ramblers, the Dixie Crackers, Arthur Tanner, Emry Arthur, Red Brush Rowdies, Welling & McGhee, Davis & Nelson, Fruit Jar Guzzlers, and many others. Contains "Bile Them Cabbage Down," "Whoa Mule Whoa," "Got Drunk And Got Married," "Hen House Blues," and more.
JSP-CD7774
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$26.95
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PEOPLE TAKE WARNING! MURDER BALLADS & DISASTER SONGS, 1913-38
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3-CD boxed set. These are audio messages in a bottle reflecting a lost world where age old ballads rubbed up against songs inspired by the day's headlines. Charlie Patton, Ernest Stoneman, Furry Lewis, Charlie Poole, Uncle Dave Macon and others sing about everything from the sinking of the Titanic to now-obscure local murders. 48 page booklet. Intro by Tom Waits.
TOMPKINS-CD1875
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$44.95
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RELIGION IS A FORTUNE: VARIOUS SACRED HARP SINGING GROUPS -- EARLY 1900s
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Liner notes by John Bealle and Joyce Cauthen.
COUY-CD3532
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$12.95
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hot platter!ROOTS MUSIC: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY
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4-CD set, 68-track compilation of traditional music on the Rounder label. Features Norman Blake, The Johnson Mountain Boys, Etta Baker, Bela Fleck, Boozoo Chavis, Marcia Ball and more.
ROUN-CD0501
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$24.95
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Ball, Lena Hughes, Lewis Thomasson, Earl Blair, E.C.
RURAL PARLOR GUITAR: RECORDINGS FROM 1967-1971
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Featuring four musicians raised in different rural regions in the early 1900's. Spotlighting different aspects of the genre such as open tunings, arpeggios, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and harmonics. Many of the tracks have never been commercially available before this release. The tuning for each song is included. Including "Spanish Fandango", "Dewdrop", "Virginia Rag", "Walking The Wires", 21 in all.
COUY-CD2744
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Various artists
SERENADE IN THE MOUNTAINS: EARLY OLD TIME RECORDINGS
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4 CDs, 94 tracks: Ernest Stoneman & The Blue Ridge Cornshuckers, Floyd County Ramblers, Carolina Tar Heels, Ted Hawkins & Riley Puckett, Texas Rangers, Dalhart & Robison, Vernon Dalhart, and more. Includes such cuts as "Three Nights Drunk," "Your Low Down Dirty Ways," "My Mama Scolds Me For Flirting," "Swaller Tail Coat," "Who Stole The Lock On The Hen House Door," and many more.
JSP-CD7780
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$26.95
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hot platter!SONGCATCHER II: THE TRADITION THAT INSPIRED THE MOVIE
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Mountain classics from the Vanguard vaults, performed by the original artists: Dock Boggs "Oh Death," Maybelle Carter "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies," Roscoe Holcomb "Little Birdie," Sara Ogan Gunning "Girl of Constant Sorrow," Doc Watson, Almeda Riddle, Clarence Ashley and others.
VAN-CD79716
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$15.95
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SONGLINKS 2
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2-CD showcase of English traditional songs and their American variants. Disc 1 highlights the English singers, The Copper Family, Martyn Wyndham-Read and others. Disc 2 features the American conterparts: Bruce Molsky, Jean Ritchie, Jody Stecher, and others. Packaged in an 80-page hardback book written by Shirley Collins.
FELL-CD190
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$27.95
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SONGS OF THE OLD REGULAR BAPTISTS: LINED OUT HYMNODY FROM SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY
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13 tracks including "Brethren We Have Met Again," "Farewell Vain World," "I Am a Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow," more.
FOLKW-CD40106
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$14.95
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TAKE ME TO THE WATER: IMMERSION BAPTISM IN VINTAGE MUSIC AND PHOTOGRAPHY 1890-1950
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96-page hardbound book with a 25-track CD of songs and sermons from 1924-40. The book is filled with photos from the collection of Jim Linderman, plus lyrics, song facts, and some recording information. "Wade in the Water", "At the River", "Bathe in that Beautiful Pool", "Denomination Blues, Part 1", more. Artists include Washington Phillips, Dock Walsh, Ernest Stoneman's Dixie Mountaineers, Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers, others.
DTD-CD013
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$34.95
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hot platter!THE ALAN LOMAX COLLECTION SAMPLER
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Culled from the 100 CD Alan Lomax Collection of field recordings. Boxed with a 70 page booklet.
ROUN-CD1700
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$13.95
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THE ART OF OLD-TIME MOUNTAIN MUSIC
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28-song collection compiled from over three decades of Rounder recordings by musician and writer Kerry Blech. Includes Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGee, Clark Kessinger, Bruce Molsky and Big Hoedown, others.
ROUN-CD11599
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$13.95
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THE BLUFF COUNTRY GATHERING: A CELEBRATION OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC 2000-04
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"Great old time fiddle tunes, banjo numbers, and singing" from this annual Minnesota event! Geoff Seitz, James Bryan, Carl Jones & Beverly Smith, New Southern Broadcasters, Bruce Greene, Dan Gellert, Rhythm Rats, Rayna Gellert, Bob Carlin and more -- some proceeds go toward ongoing funding of the gathering.
JAWBONE-CD005
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$14.95
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THE MUSIC OF KENTUCKY VOL. 2: EARLY AMERICAN RURAL CLASSICS 1927-37
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Culled field recordings from early '78s. "Hard for to Love," "Little Birdie," "Glory in the Meeting House," more.
YAZ-CD2014
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$15.95
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THE OLD TIME BANJO FESTIVAL
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Compilation featuring 31 tracks in the old-time style, as well as contemporary numbers with an older flavor. Most tracks feature solo singing and playing, with occasional accompaniment. Including tracks from Mike Seeger, Dan Gellert, Adam Hurt, Bob Carlin, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Reed Martin, and others.
ROUN-CD0584
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$13.95
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McGraw & others, Hugh
THE SOCIAL HARP -- EARLY AMERICAN SHAPE-NOTE SONGS PERFORMED BY SOUTHERN TRADITIONAL SINGERS
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20 cut historical documentation of this singing style.
out-of-stock, more coming soon -- normally ships within 20 days
ROUN-CD0094
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$13.95
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Various artists
THE STAINED GLASS HOUR: BLUEGRASS AND OLD-TIMEY GOSPEL
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Hazel Dickens, Doc Watson, Louvin Bros., Nashville Bluegrass Band, Ricky Skaggs and more.
ROUN-CD11563
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$13.95
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THE STUFF THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF: SUPER RARITIES & UNISSUED GEMS OF THE 1920s & '30s
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A double CD packaged in a DVD digipak; 46 country and blues gems, including many never heard before! Two previously unknown Son House sides, a newly discovered Georgia Pot Lickers, a completely unknown track from Louis Jordan, Tommy Johnson, Dock Boggs, Memphis Jug Band, Sweet Brothers, Andrew and Jim Baxter, and many others -- cover art by uber-collector Robert Crumb! Yow!
YAZ-CD2202
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$24.95
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TIMES AIN'T LIKE THEY USED TO BE: EARLY AMERICAN RURAL MUSIC VOL. 1
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Classic recordings of the 1920s and 30s featuring string bands, rags, ballads, blues, banjo songs, and more. Bascom Lamar Lunsford, the Happy Hayseeds, Memphis Jug Band, Ken Maynard, NuGrape Twins, the Southern Moonlight Entertainers, Grayson & Whitter and more!
YAZ-CD2028
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$15.95
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TRADITIONAL FIDDLE MUSIC OF THE OZARKS - VOL. I: ALONG THE EASTERN CRESCENT
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Old time music from Salem, MO, down through Arkansas.
ROUN-CD0435
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$13.95
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Old Time Music Anthologies
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