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With its moving portraits of miners, senior citizens, lonesome housewives and drug-addicted veterans—and its lovely melodies and biting social commentary—John Prime's debut became a cherished... more

The gentle blend of folk and country on Prine's first two albums gave way to the revved-up country-rockers of this 1973 LP. His sardonic humor grew sharper on this album, and many a fan's favorite... more

Steve Cropper stepped in as producer for Prine's fourth album, helping the still-ascending singer-songwriter reach #66 on the pop album charts. The grooves and sonics shine as Prine paints vivid... more

Easy Rider - Leadbelly songs - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is proud to present 'Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection' - the first in-depth, career-spanning box set of songs, photos,... more

2021 release. Michael Hurley's first new studio record in 12 years features eleven songs recorded in Astoria, Oregon during the brief time of year when the foxgloves bloom. Hurley had been... more

Vinyl LP pressing. This recording, first released by Folkways founder Moses Asch in 1976 to coincide with the celebration of America's Bicentennial, was originally recorded by Asch in the 1940s. The... more

This acclaimed acoustic duo of Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale were ready to expand their sound, and so we have this: their first album backed by a full band. They were clearly liberated by this... more

The singer/activist teamed with up-and-coming quartet the Chambers Brothers in 1966 to record this soul-stirring blend of gospel, folk-rock and blues. The singing is sublime across the board, and the... more

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2015 release, the fourth album from the Bluegrass band featuring Chris Thile (mandolin), Gabe Witcher (fiddle/violin), Noam Pikelny (banjo), Chris Eldridge (guitar), and... more

Simultaneously heartbreaking and hopeful, this new collection of songs is rooted in the history of slavery in America, and speaks out with passion and determination against the ongoing cycle of... more

Leyla McCalla's Vari-Colored Songs is a celebration of the complexity of Black culture and identity, and a tribute to the legacy of poet and thinker Langston Hughes. A songwriter and... more

Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release. Freedom Highway is Grammy Award-winner and 2017 Grammy nominee Rhiannon Giddens' follow-up to her highly praised debut album Tomorrow Is My Turn. The record includes... more

Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton is a new album of old-time music produced from archival recordings by two legendary musicians. These largely unheard tapes were recorded at Doc Watson's two earliest... more

Vinyl LP pressing. 2020 release. Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn's duo project is as unlikely, perhaps, as it was inevitable-a manifest sonic consequence of politics and vibrations commingling across... more

On his third and most finely wrought album yet, guitarist, singer, and master interpreter Fussell is joined for the first time by a full band featuring Nathan Bowles (drums), Casey Toll (bass),... more

Produced by Joe Henry, recorded in Dublin and featuring primarily just Rhiannon and Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, Giddens' new album takes us from Africa and the Arabic world to... 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

Vinyl LP pressing. In December 2016, after more than a year of touring the world behind her 2015 LP Over and Even, Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg headed a few hours north to Chicago, where they... more

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2015 debut solo album from the singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and founding member of Grammy Award winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. Tomorrow Is My Turn was... more

Becalmyounglovers is as much a return as it is a farewell. Phil Moore's first Bowerbirds album since 2012 is an artifact of transition, a domino effect of doors closing and Moore stumbling headfirst... more

'Anam' is the first collection of recordings by Selah Broderick (b. 1959, Washington, D.C.). Having grown up in a strict Catholic setting, the alternative movements of the late 60's and 70's could... more

The eminent string quartet not only honor the indelible musical contributions of Pete Seeger here, but also the forever-relevant cries for unity and moral integrity that permeate Seeger's songs.... more

"The album art, made by my close friend Quintin Caldwell, is a farm scene made in the isometric style of a silicon valley tech company's marketing content. The cattle's enclosures are smart-phone... more

Strolling home after a gig one night in Chicago, Matthew Schneider, aka Moon Bros., was punched in the face by one young man, while another filmed the attack, presumably to post the video online... more