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This volume is half of a two-recording set that includes recordings not issued on the Vanguard or Elektra Newport compilations. It features folk songs and ballads sung by Irish, Canadian, and... more

During Charlie Brown's (aka Charles Artman) travels he befriended mountain climbers in the Tetons of Wyoming. The Teton Tea Parties were initially led by Billy Briggs in the Jackson Hole area (later... more

Recorded at Yale, Chicago, Carnegie Hall, and the Village Gate, Sing Out with Pete! Includes enduring favorites and rousing singalongs like "The Hammer Song," "Wimoweh," and "Michael, Row the Boat... more

In this collection of live recordings, Pete Seeger plays some of his favorite Woody Guthrie tunes. Classics such as Pretty Boy Floyd, Reuben James, and This Land is Your Land are included alongside... more

As it did with blues and jazz, the early recording industry missed the beginnings of ragtime. Luckily, the burgeoning player piano industry produced ragtime tunes on paper rolls, and these rolls... more

This album exhibits Pete Seeger's omnivorous approach to music. Here, he plays a variety of instruments, and this collection features a far-ranging repertoire. Seeger's musical travels took him to... more

Pete and Sonny have a ball with instrumentals, traditional folk tunes, children's songs, Guthrie songs, spirituals and more in this December 27, 1957, Carnegie Hall concert. The "Goofing-Off Suite"... 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

Blacklisted actor and tireless social activist Will Geer toured government work camps with Guthrie and Burl Ives long before Geer and Guthrie released this 1956 LP. They tell it like it is the songs... more

Avast ye, landlubers! There be shanties here for only true salts of the seas. Aye! 2 CDs full of the music of real sailors sung by everybody from Pete Seeger to actual recordings of working sailors... more

Recorded at "hoots" in '58 and '59 (this tradition was nearly two decades old by then), this album overflows with audience participation, social commentary and, of course, legendary folk songs and... more

Irwin Silber produced this classic 1960 Folkways comp of Civil War songs both famous and obscure, from rousing marches to brokenhearted ballads. Along with Tenting Tonight; Lincoln and Liberty; John... more

No one could pound out that incessant bass with the left and still lead the way with a thunderous right like Slim. This 1959 LP features one stunning solo after another by one of the most exciting... more

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

I've never had the blues, says Brownie McGhee in an interview with famed oral historian, Studs Terkel, "the blues has always had me." the trio of legendary bluesmen played, talked, and traded stories... more

Created in 1931, the American Folk Song Festival helped Kentucky mountain singers share their music with the world. Perhaps more relevantly, it allowed the rest of the world to hear the music of... more

When he recorded this album, Mark Spoelstra was heading to the Southwest to work with American Indians instead of joining the military-but he said he felt he was getting into something rather than... more

Adventurers, nonconformists, naturalists, and anyone seeking a new life traveled to America's far reaches, singing their old music even as they created new songs to describe life on the frontier.... more

The songs on this 15-track album were contributed to Broadside Magazine by folk singer-songwriters during the early 1960s and are performed by The Broadside Singers. Featured in the collection are... more

Among the impassioned performers on this 1961 recording of spirituals, gospel and new songs are high school girls from Alabama, seminary students and others who sang out for first-class citizenship... more

This compilation reflects musicians' accounts of the growth of jazz, spotlighting forms they heard in New Orleans such as the march, rag, blues, spiritual and "standards. " Featured are Jelly Roll... more

Massachusetts native Paul Clayton spent his college years at the University of Virginia collecting songs and writing a thesis about Child ballads found in the state. Clayton selected these songs from... more