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Buy Now	In The Pines: Tar Heel Folk Songs & Fiddle Tunes: Old-Time Music Of North Carolina 1926-1936 (more) »rank: 57022 by: Dock Walsh, Clarence Greene, Ernest Stoneman, Charlie Poole, Dixon Brothers, Red Fox Chasers, Mainer's Mountaineers, Wilmer Watts, Ben Jarrell, Frank Jenkins :Album Description:North Carolina, the 'Tar Heel State,' has a proud heritage of traditional music, and this CD anthology from Old Hat Records, In The Pines, offers compelling proof. Here are 24 rare tracks first recorded between 1926-1936, a decade of inspired musical achievement. You'll hear old-time fiddle and banjo tunes, folk songs and murder ballads, gospel hymns, mountain blues and railroad songs, sentimental favorites and showpiece instrumentals, all performed by the state's top musical talent. Most tracks are reissued here for the first time on compact disc.In The Pines has been carefully crafted by Old Hat's team of experts, including Grammy-nominated ...	Buy Now	On Christmas Night (more) »rank: 9492 by: Cherish the Ladies :Album Description:The critically acclaimed women's ensemble Cherish the Ladies extends its theme of traditional Irish music to the holidays. On Christmas Night features traditional Irish melodies and carols like 'The Holly and the Berry' and 'The Wexford Carol' interspersed with well-known Christmas carols, including 'O Come All Ye Faithful,' 'What Child Is This,' 'The Little Drummer Boy,' 'We Three Kings,' 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,' 'Angels We Have Heard on High,' 'Silent Night,' and 'The First Noel.' All of the arrangements are brought forth with a new freshness by the use of the group's unique Celtic instrumentation (penny whistles, fiddles, accordion, ...
Buy Now	Shady Grove (more) »rank: 35312 by: Jerry Garcia & David Grisman : :Throughout his life, Jerry Garcia had an abiding fondness for the banjo, bluegrass, and roots-folk music. It not only helped shape the Grateful Dead's vast repertoire, but also led him on various musical excursions outside of the Dead. One of his most consistent collaborators in his extra-Dead adventures was 'newgrass' mandolin master and bandleader David Grisman. The two of them formed the nucleus of the short-lived but influential bluegrass ensemble Old & In the Way in the early 1970s. These 13 delightful folk songs were culled from numerous laid-back Garcia-Grisman sessions that took place in Grisman's studio between 1990 and 1995, ...	Buy Now	Blue Country Heart (more) »rank: 30680 by: Jorma Kaukonen : :Singer and guitarist extraordinaire Jorma Kaukonen was a devoted aficionado of early-20th-century rural music long before he cofounded Jefferson Airplane in 1965 and Hot Tuna some years later. On his new solo album, Kaukonen has found an imaginative setting to remind listeners how a fusion of styles and influences from both black and white musicians defined American country music in its formative decades. Included here are gems, both familiar and obscure, by the likes of Jimmie Rodgers, the Delmore Brothers, Jimmie Davis, Cliff Carlisle, and other country musicians who were clearly inspired by their blues cousins. Backed by the Nashville All-Stars, ...
Buy Now	The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 (more) »rank: 12837 by: Woody Guthrie :Album Description:This is the finest Woody Guthrie Collection ever assembled. These 105 songs, including many of his best-known compositions and some of his most unususal, were all recorded in the 1940's by Moses Asch, the founder of Folkways Records. Carefully selected, exquisitely remastered, and painstakingly annotated in over 100 pages of text in four illustrated booklets. Contains four CDs originally issued as separate volumes. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon.(4 hours and 43 minutes) essential recording:Poland-born, Brooklyn-reared producer and folk enthusiast Moses Asch maintained a suitably slack but ultimately productive relationship with Woody Guthrie. The notoriously unbound ...	Buy Now	I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound: The Best Of Tom Paxton (more) »rank: 32168 by: Tom Paxton : :There are few music fans who are not familiar with a Tom Paxton song--whether they know it or not. Paxton emerged from the folk movement of the 1960s and went on to pen a remarkable body of work that has been covered by literally hundreds of singers. Indeed, the songs on this collection, culled from the seven albums he cut from his start on through 1971, include what are now unarguably American standards in the rarefied tradition of Stephen Foster and Woody Guthrie. His lyrical charm and simplicity of melody informs children's songs ('Going to the Zoo,' 'Marvelous Toy') and hilarious ...
Buy Now	One Fair Summer Evening (more) »rank: 19459 by: Nanci Griffith : essential recording:Nanci Griffith first built her audience through intimate, well-timed, and energetic concerts. This live set, recorded in August 1988 at the legendary Anderson Fair in Houston, contains her best performances of originals like 'Workin' in Corners,' 'The Wing and the Wheel,' and 'Love at the Five and Dime,' as well as songs by Bill Staines, Eric Taylor, and Julie Gold, songs she helped bring just shy of fame: 'Roseville Fair,' 'Deadwood, South Dakota,' and 'From a Distance.' Griffith learned her craft and got her chops down at Anderson Fair, and her gift for narrative shines brilliantly in her (often ...	Buy Now	Ollabelle (more) »rank: 13844 by: Ollabelle : :Ollabelle are a six-person, New York City-based band that celebrates rural American roots music, as well as the joys of group singing. What started as a side project became a bona fide group, named in honor of country singer and songwriter Ola Belle Reed. They mix traditional songs (including 'Jesus on the Mainline,' 'Soul of a Man,' and 'John the Revelator') with originals, the latter sounding every bit as timeless as the former. Lead singer Amy Helm has had no shortage of exposure to honest music, her father being Levon Helm of the Band. The rest of the band includes singing ...
Buy Now	The Beauty of the Rain (more) »rank: 31197 by: Dar Williams :Album Description:Dar Williams delivers her most stunning work to date with The Beauty Of The Rain, showcasing a new, fuller sound and her master at mapping out the emotional terrain of people whose lives are in transition. Produced by Rob Hyman (Joan Osborne, Hooters) and Stewart Lerman (Laurie Anderson), The Beauty Of The Rain features guest appearances by a remarkable roster of talent: platinum artist Alison Krauss on vocals, Bela Fleck on banjo, John Popper (Blues Traveler) manning the harmonica and backup vocals, Stefan Lessard (Dave Matthews Band) on bass, electro-jazz wiz John Medeski (Medeski, Martin & Wood) on keyboards, Chris ...	Buy Now	Jim Croce - 50th Anniversary Collection (more) »rank: 9198 by: Jim Croce :Album Description:Dar Williams delivers her most stunning work to date with The Beauty Of The Rain, showcasing a new, fuller sound and her master at mapping out the emotional terrain of people whose lives are in transition. Produced by Rob Hyman (Joan Osborne, Hooters) and Stewart Lerman (Laurie Anderson), The Beauty Of The Rain features guest appearances by a remarkable roster of talent: platinum artist Alison Krauss on vocals, Bela Fleck on banjo, John Popper (Blues Traveler) manning the harmonica and backup vocals, Stefan Lessard (Dave Matthews Band) on bass, electro-jazz wiz John Medeski (Medeski, Martin & Wood) on keyboards, Chris ...