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Ochs was one of the most enthusiastic contributors to Broadside, the original folk-music zine. This posthumous 1976 LP has live performances he gave for Broadside benefit concerts and demos he made... more

DESCRIPTION::On What Will We Do, Lula Wiles channel infectious energy and bold insight into music that strikes with purpose. The band fosters contradiction, embracing the spirit of traditional... more

A paean to the joys of live performance, this album features rousing singalongs, blues, spirituals, and songs from South Africa and the Bahamas. Willie Dixon and Memphis Slim join Seeger in this... more

After attracting attention with his live sets in NYC (where he often played in a duo with Dylan), Spoelstra signed to Folkways and got the chance to show off his inspired takes on folk classics and... more

22 songs favored by leaders of antiwar, civil rights, industrial labor, farm worker, and other struggles throughout American history. "Jesus Christ" Woody Guthrie, "Blowin' In The Wind," New World... more

The American Favorite Ballads series (1957–62) was a cornerstone of Seeger's work on Folkways, and this fifth volume is now joined by songs from his other albums of the era—29 tracks from the... more

Pete Seeger has long set the standard for interpreters of American traditional and topical songs. This fourth volume in the popular series compiled from the Folkways Records AMERICAN FAVORITE BALLADS... more

Simply 25 of the finest '40s-to-'60s performances from the Folkways vaults: "Pastures of Plenty" Woody Guthrie; "Changes" Phil Ochs; "Betty and Dupree" Brownie McGhee; "We Shall Overcome" Pete... more

Ballads fuse the arts of music and storytelling.3 Pete Seeger, an American folk hero and icon of the great "folk revival of the 1950s & 1960 s, hand selecton some of his favorite American ballads to... more

The songs Pete Seeger recorded on his American Favorite Ballads LPs in the '50s and '60s are not merely classic folk songs—they're definitive Americana. This first in a series of reissues of those... more

"Broadside" magazine was sort of the literary equivalent of the proverbial '60s coffeehouse, where folk and protest singers would come together and share their latest songs coming out of the peace,... more

This is the 4th volume in the collection of Woody Guthrie's recordings of the 1940's. Featuring original compositions and traditional songs about Cowboys, Outlaws and other Western themes this is an... more

"Broadside" was an early-'60s magazine devoted to publishing topical songs, and who else but Phil Ochs would be its #1 contributor? These tapes were recorded privately for "Broadside" to transcribe... more

Reissue of the stunning introduction to the musical world of the unique guitarist from the Bahamas, Joseph Spence. Recorded in 1958 on the porch of a shack in Fresh Creek Settlement, it captures... more

The New Faith tells an Afrofuturist story set in a far-future world devastated by climate change. Jake Blount and his collaborators embody a group of Black climate refugees as they perform a... more

Dave Van Ronk - Ballads, Blues & a Spiritual - Dubbed "The Mayor of MacDougal Street," Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was an iconoclastic folksinger and an influential figure in the American folk music... more

A mentor to everyone from Bob Dylan to Suzanne Vega, "The Mayor of MacDougal Street" was a treasured figure in the Greenwich Village scene for four decades. His autobiography and its portrait of the... more

It's more than an instrument—it's a symbol of the American South. Here are 30 prime examples of banjo artistry from more than 300 LPs (44-page booklet, too): "Bright Sunny South" Dock Boggs; "Johnson... more

Bold, lusty, wickedly funny, unexpurgated. Fireside conversation in the time of Queen Elizabeth I and songs in the same free spirit read and sung by Richard Dyer-Bennet.

The legendary Rose Maddox was known as the Queen of California Country Music and was also the first woman to record an all bluegrass album. She spent much of her later years playing with bluegrass... more