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Amede Ardoin Mama I'll Be Long Gone 2cd 2cd 2011/1929-34 new Ardoin's wheezing duets with fiddler Dennis McGee are the starting point for all things cajun/zydeco. Ardoin has a high tenor voice that ripples like a flag & hiccoughs on cue...	Tompkins Square	$18.00 Add:
An Evening With Dando Shaft lp lp 2011/1970 new 1st & slightly lesser album, mostly because of that slight but annoying reverb-as-echo that's on everything. Otherwise, the Bert Jansch/Fairport/ISB ripoffs the band is known for are...	Sommor	$25.00 Add:
Anne Briggs lp lp 2008/1971 new Bert Jansch's pure-voiced roommate had already spent several years hanging around the UK folk scene, but she was notoriously unreliable about turning up for shows, & was known for...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Anne Briggs Nottinghamshire Tales lp lp 2009/1973 new Aka 'Sing a Song For You'. Third album before she gave up music to raise some kids & live in the Scottish countryside. Briggs unique voice & thick Midlands accent scalpels through...	Vinyl Lovers	$23.00 Add:
Anne Briggs Sing a Song for You cd cd 1996/1973 new Aka 'Nottinghamshire Tales'. Third album before she gave up music to raise some kids & live in the Scottish countryside. Briggs unique voice & thick Midlands accent scalpels through...	Fledgling	$16.00 Add:
Anne Briggs The Time Has Come lp lp 2007/1971 new Mid 60s UK trad folk singer who was a generation younger than everybody else & suddenly started drinking a lot, hanging out with Bert Jansch & writing her own material. Her 2nd album...	Four Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Arizona Dranes He Is My Story cd cd 2012/1926 new Blind piano playing holy roller who went to the same church as Sister Rosetta Tharpe & was sanctifying while Tharpe was still a little girl. Originally from Texas, Dranes is rhythmic...	Tompkins Square	$25.00 Add:
Barbecue Bob Chocolate To the Bone cd cd 1992/1972/192x new Good time Bob's Atlanta bottleneck playing displays a hard-driving rhythmic sense & arrangements that cleverly hide the slide player's problem of always having to be in the same...	Yazoo	$15.00 Add:
Benny Joy Vol. 2 Rollin to the Jukebox Rock lp lp 2009/1957-61 new Joy once turned down an offer from Sun, and you can hear the songwriting talent that caught Sam Phillips' gold ears. Wonderfully raw performances, & songs written from the 50s as...	Norton	$11.50 Add:
Benny Joy Vol. 4 Wild Wild Lover lp lp 2009/1957-61 new Demos, unreleased sessions, & long gone singles by rockabilly obscurity Benny, who strayed into fascinating territory that bordered on haunted minor key surf or country ballads...	Norton	$11.50 Add:
Benny Joy Vol. 5 Love Zone lp lp 2009/1957-61 new Demos from when Benny was a Nashville songwriter, after the end of his touring run out of Florida. Interesting to hear him try on different styles that aren't quite rockabilly....	Norton	$11.50 Add:
Blind Blake Back Biting Bee Blues lp lp 2009/1926-32 new Stylish & swanky as his peaked double breasted suit, Arthur Blake makes his guitar boogie-oogie-woogie like a fast piano left hand. He can get an entire band arrangement out of...	Monk	$23.50 Add:
Blind Blake That Will Happen No More lp lp 2010/1927-28 new Stephen Calt (best known for his unforgettable Skip James bio book) says Blind Blake probably has some dance band history in his past. And that makes sense, as the guy's little...	Monk	$21.00 Add:
Blind Boy Fuller Truckin My Blues Away lp lp 2013/1978/1935-39 new The song that eventually turned into the goofy 70s saying 'Keep on Truckin' was Fuller's. After losing his sight in his teens, Fuller had few options, but gained countrywide...	Yazoo	$17.00 Add:
Blind Lemon Jefferson I Want to Be Like Jesus in my Heart lp lp 2009/1926-29 new Jefferson's high voice, fairly intricate playing, and sense of variety gained from travel (which he did quite a bit of, prompting Victoria Spivey to comment that he 'sure could...	Monk	$22.50 Add:
Blind Willie Johnson Praise God I'm Satisfied lp lp 2013/1977/1927-30 new Quintessential gospel growler & slide player, whose version of 'Dark Was the Night Cold Was the Ground' gave enough souls the shivers that it was sent into space on the...	Yazoo	$17.00 Add:
Blind Willie McTell lp lp 2011/1973/1927-35 new Atlanta guitarist who could while his way through country fingerpicking (on a 12-string, no less) all the way to metropolitan bottleneck slides. He's known for his impromptu,...	Yazoo	$17.00 Add:
Blind Willie McTell The Early Years lp lp 2011/1968/1927-33 new Atlanta guitarist who could while his way through country fingerpicking (on a 12-string, no less) all the way to metropolitan bottleneck slides. He's known for his impromptu,...	Yazoo	$17.00 Add:
Bo Carter Banana In Your Fruit Basket lp lp 2013/1979/1931-36 new Aka Sam Chatmon, brother to Lonnie & member of the great stringband stompers the Mississippi Sheiks. Sam was known as the Sheik's manager, because of all the guys in the...	Yazoo	$17.00 Add:
Bo Diddley Is a Session Man lp lp 2011/1955-57 new R&B this loose & dirty didn't come from nowhere, of course. Bo'd been playing on the street around Chicago for about ten years, with his swizzling maracas master Jerome Green,...	Jerome	$18.50 Add:
Bridget St. John Ask Me No Questions lp lp 2011/1969 new St. John's glassy, back-of-the-throat voice always reminds of Nico, but her songwriting on this 1st & best album highlights a delicate sensibility. Close to Nick Drake's, even, and...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Bridget St. John BBC Radio 2cd 2cd 2010/1968-76 new Bridget's voice is very much like Nico: low, cool, vowels round & weighty. But instead of being a heroin ice princess she's a sweet butterfly of a girl from next door. 9...	Hux	$26.00 Add:
Bridget St. John Jumblequeen cd cd 2008/1974 new UK folkie with hippy-dip lyrics who sings in a cool, glassy style very reminiscent of Nico. Later & more songwritery/electric album from after she left John Peel's Dandelion label....	Sundazed	$17.00 Add:
Bruce Janaway Puritanical Odes cd cd 2011/1977 new Trebly 12 string with a UK singer who shows some Bert Jansch/Davey Graham influence in his playing. More memorably though, he sways wildly between throaty hollers, thick falsetto...	Sunbeam	$16.00 Add:
Bukka White Mississippi Blues cd cd 2010/1963-64 new White started playing music at parties, passing himself off as an adult to get more girls as early as age 14. He played baseball in the Negro leagues, boxed, gave BB King his...	Water	$15.00 Add:
Carl Perkins Whole Lotta Shakin lp lp 2011/1958 new The onetime child laborer who became rockabilly royalty. Perkins wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes' from a real life incident he saw on a dance floor. His voice was just like the guy next...	Rumble	$20.50 Add:
Casey Bill Weldon/Kokomo Arnold Bottleneck Trendsetters lp lp 2011/1975/1927-36 new Let every glinting twist of the bottleneck guitar pour over your head. Weldon shows off some really interesting inner harmonic lines, & more Tin Pan Alley or even Western...	Yazoo	$17.00 Add:
Charley Patton Electrically Recorded Prayer of Death lp lp 2009/1929 new Patton growled like a 500 pound howler monkey when he sang, & while constantly interrupting himself for commentary, liked to flip his guitar down to his knees or over his shoulders....	Monk	$22.50 Add:
Charley Patton Electrically Recorded: Jesus Is a Dying Bed Maker lp 2009/1929 new With a voice robust enough to uproot trees from the ground, and guitar playing that's unruly & impudent with corn liquor, Patton captured the imagination of the entire South. The guy...	Monk	$22.50 Add:
Charley Patton Founder of the Delta Blues 2lp 2lp 2011/1970/1929-34 new Patton sits at the fount of delta blues like a pissed off bear, roaring & huge & unpredictable. And even if you can't see him flipping his guitar over his head, you can...	Yazoo	$27.50 Add:
Charlie Poole with Highlanders Complete Paramount & Brunswick cd cd 2013/1929 new Poole was already a popular country string performer. Pretty smartly, he realized that adding piano & a 2nd, extra classy violinist to his normal trio of banjo, fiddle & guitar would...	Tompkins Square	$14.00 Add:
Charlie Poole with Highlanders Complete Paramount & Brunswick lp lp 2013/1929 new Poole was already a popular country string performer. Pretty smartly, he realized that adding piano & a 2nd, extra classy violinist to his normal trio of banjo, fiddle & guitar would...	Tompkins Square	$15.50 Add:
Charlie Tweddle Fantastic Greatest Hits cd cd 2004/1974 new Front porch hillbilly in the more expansive sense by Haight-Ashbury acidhead who went back home to bumpkinland & recorded himself playing over the am radio, along with the local...	Companion Records	$13.50 Add:
Collins Kids The Rockinest cd cd 1997/1955-58 new Larry Collins is perhaps the weirdest child star ever. A walking advertisement for Ritalin, Larry took duckwalking, bopping, & winking at the audience to amphetamine crazed...	Bear Family	$16.50 Add:
CW McCall Wolf Creek Pass cd cd 2013/1975 new McCall (born Bill Fries) wrote the song that inspired the Sam Peckinpah film 'Convoy', and therefore can be ultimately blamed for fare like 'Smokey and the Bandit', 'BJ and the Bear'...	Omni	$19.50 Add:
Dando Shaft lp lp 2011/1971 new Coventry UK band that really does sound just like Pentangle/Fairport. Espesh on their 2nd once they score a female singer. Tempos are quite fast rather than ethereal, but they take...	Sommor	$25.00 Add:
Dick Curless The Long Lonesome Road cd cd 2012/1968 new With his black eyepatch, stark & flinty trucker songs, and booming bass voice that could flip up high for a soft croon, Dick Curless comes off like a Johnny Cash for dead dog losers....	Omni	$19.50 Add:
Dock Boggs Legendary Singer & Banjo Player lp lp 2009/1964 new Fever-ridden blues-inflected banjo & appalachian muder ballads that could only be upstaged by Boggs' moonshine-burned frog croak of a voice. Mike Seeger, inspired by the inclusion of...	Folkways	$17.00 Add:
Dock Boggs Vol. 2 lp lp 2012/1965 new Of all the backwater banjo pickers, delta dusties & multivaried sloths of the prewar era, it's Dock who can sound most like he's calling straight out to you from his coffin. Coal...	Folkways	$18.00 Add:
Dock Boggs When My Worldly Trials Are Over lp lp 2010/1927-29 new Short collection, but Boggs' 20s banjo songs are hewn as coarse & jagged as any made by humankind. Alternate takes of the songs found on Monk's 'False Hearted Lover's Blues' (and...	Monk	$18.50 Add:
Dulcimer Room for Thought lp lp 2012/1971 new 2nd album of UK folk-rock which wasn't released until 1992. The band's recordings were produced by Larry Page (Kinks, Troggs), but instead of being on his label they were on a tiny...	Sommor	$25.00 Add:
Earl Hooker 2 Bugs and a Roach lp lp 2012/1968 new John Lee Hooker's flashy, sleazy cousin who played echoey & wah-covered slide all over Chicago. Hooker began as a Memphis studio musician, backing Ike Turner for a while & sitting in...	Arhoolie	$18.00 Add:
Ed Askew Imperfiction lp lp 2011/1984 new Tender plinking on 10 string ukulele & harpsichord. Every chord is arpeggiated across a constant stream of eighth notes, so that you slip along a fanciful river of lonesome. Askew...	Drag City	$15.00 Add:
Edouard Leon Scott de Martinville one sided 7 inch one sided 7 inch 2009/1860 new Most art acquisition is not dependent upon 20th century technological progress in the way that record collecting is. So here's a lovely way to celebrate it's unique...	Parolortone/Dust to Digital	$8.00 Add:
Elder Utah Smith I Got Two Wings cd + book cd + book 2009/1944-53 new Hot New Orleans player & growling preacher Utah Smith could read no book other than the Bible, but he got himself an electric guitar as early as the late 30s & wowed the...	Casequarter	$18.00 Add:
Elizabeth Cotten Folksongs and Instrumentals With Guitar lp lp 2012/1976 new Since she had to learn by borrowing her brother's banjo when he wasn't home, Cotten happened to figure out to play upsidedown. But by age 11 she'd put enough money together to buy...	Folkways	$18.00 Add:
Elizabeth Cotten When I'm Gone/Vol. 3 lp lp 2009/1979 new Elizabeth Cotten was a divorced lady working in a department store, when she returned a lost little girl to her mother. Ruth Crawford Seeger, a modernist composer turned folklorist,...	Folkways	$17.00 Add:
Fairport Convention Maidstone lp lp 2009/1970 new Live at a nice big outdoor hippie festival, Fairport jigs along happily at top speed, making them sound like a country dance band of old. Ian Matthews guests & a stuffy British...	Vinyl Lovers	$23.00 Add:
Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking cd cd 2008/1969 new 3rd album, & the one on which they unveiled Sandy Denny as the frontperson as well as the complete electric sound for which they're best known today. Dylan covers that were...	Water	$14.00 Add:
Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking lp lp 2008/1969 new 3rd album, & the one on which they unveiled Sandy Denny as the frontperson as well as the complete electric sound for which they're best known today. Dylan covers that were...	4 Men With Beards	$16.50 Add: