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Michael Hurley Long Journey lp lp 2011/1976 new As folk singers go, Hurley just plain plants more daisies in his lacksidasical. This first of his 2 for Rounder gives you dobro, mandolin, Peter Stampfel on banjo, clip clop mouth...	Light in the Attic	$18.00 Add:
Michael Hurley Snockgrass lp lp 2011/1980 new Hurley at his most straight & regular, but it's still a good ole time and there are some lyrical cul-de-sacs that nobody else would come up with ('I Heard the Voice of a Porkchop')....	Light in the Attic	$18.50 Add:
Mississippi Fred McDowell Delta Blues lp lp 2012/1964 new McDowell's 1st record that made him an instant favorite of the folk boom. Not hard to hear why, as the guy's fingers are so good his bottleneck notes seem to oxidize the moment they...	Arhoolie	$18.00 Add:
Mississippi John Hurt 1928 Sessions cd cd 1990/1928 new Quintessential folk blues player who rarely got out of his tiny country town, worked as a sharecropper until found by the folk revivalists in 63, thereafter played colleges. Most of...	Yazoo	$15.00 Add:
Muddy Waters Electric Mud lp lp 2010/1968 new Infamous dip into psychedelia, which isn't super trippy but does have Pete Cosey spewing some fierce & shattered guitar distortion. There's a Stones cover that rethinks the song as...	Cadet	$11.00 Add:
Nick Drake Family Tree 2lp 2lp 2007/1967-68 new The paradigm of the willowy, sensitive artist is both endlessly false & eternally true, & that's why Nick Drake's guitar can both sell Volkswagens and paint the maw of human...	Sunbeam	$30.00 Add:
Nimrod Workman I Want To Go Where Things Are Beautiful lp lp 2008/1982 new Acapella appalachian ballads, which range from murder to baptism & make a small shelter against the pitiless work of coal mining. Workman was a miner for nearly half of his 99 years...	Drag City	$14.50 Add:
Nothing and the No Names 7 inch 7 inch 2012/1956 new Cute hillbilly rockers from hicksville have a whale of a time knocking off Gene Vincent & Charlie Feathers. They keep things fast & effortlessly simple, and there's an amusingly...	Norton	$7.00 Add:
Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette cd cd 2008/1909-28 new 78s and Edison cylinders that're so old Mark Twain provided their promo blurb. As early as 1892, Polk Miller was taking an integrated act around the country to showcase the lost...	Tompkins Square	$13.50 Add:
Porter Wagoner The Cold Hard Facts of Life cd cd 2008/1967 new That's Porter's own apartment in the cover shot, with no pictures on the walls & the lampshade with the plastic still on. Throughout the late 60s Porter's albums were all organized...	Omni	$17.00 Add:
Porter Wagoner The Rubber Room cd cd 2006/1966-77 new Porter Wagoner wore enough makeup and bangles to be mistaken for a drag queen. But he seriously upped the ante on country concept albums with a series that cast him as a...	Omni	$17.00 Add:
Randy Burns Evening of the Magician lp lp 2011/1968 new 2nd album of 3 that originally came out on ESP. Straight ahead folk considering the onetime label, but none the worse for it. Acoustic guitar, flute, and a muted backing band with...	Enabling Works	$23.50 Add:
Red Fox Chasers I'm Going Down to North Carolina 2cd 2cd 2009/1928-31 new Fast North Carolina appalachian fiddle tunes that saw & totter. Banjo, harmonica, guitar & plenty of fervid nasal twang. The band was able to record frequesntly, mostly due to...	Tompkins Square	$19.00 Add:
Rev Charlie Jackson Lord You're So Good lp lp 2012/1974-89 new Wonderous live gospel performances from around Baton Rouge LA with heavily distorted electric guitar. And as more & more of Jackson's stuff makes it out into the world, more &...	50 Miles of Elbow Room	$20.00 Add:
Rev. Johnny L Hurricane Jones Jesus Christ From A to Z lp lp 2009/1960 new Atlanta Baptist preacher who combines singing, sermonizing, & heavy breathing in the style of CL Franklin (Aretha's dad, the varsity star of shouting preachers). During the 70s, he...	Parlortone	$14.00 Add:
Reverend Gary Davis New Blues and Gospel lp lp 2012/1971 new A stately, relaxed session from the end of Davis' life. Having played on the street from the late 20s until the 40s, the folk festival circut had finally brought Davis enough money...	Sutro Park	$17.50 Add:
Richard Crandell In the Flower of Our Youth lp lp 2008/1980 new Warm & friendly solo acoustic guitar recordings from Eugene, Oregon. Crandell also makes lightly processed recordings on african thumb piano & has a couple of cds out on Tzadik....	Tompkins Square	$12.50 Add:
Robbie Basho Bonn Ist Supreme cd cd 2008/1980 new Live in Germany. Basho plays 12-string like two people at once, both of whom are falling down drunk and bumping into each other. Although it's from '80, there's very little Windham...	Bo Weavil	$17.00 Add:
Robbie Basho The Seal of the Blue Lotus lp lp 2012/1965 new Basho sets forth the twin poles of his musical personality right away on this 1st indelible record. He insists on talking as windily as possible, mentioning in the notes that 'The...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Robbie Basho Venus in Cancer lp lp 2012/1969 new Feelgood transcendental folk yowling & one of Basho's best. 12 string raga influences and appalachian picking influences get equal billing, and some of the guitar fireworks are as...	Universal	$17.00 Add:
Robert Pete Williams Free Again lp lp 2011/1960 new Before 1940, the Louisiana State Penitentary, commonly known as Angola, was a for-profit farming corporation. It specifically used the one thing that came to it free, manpower, to...	Doxy	$23.00 Add:
Robert Pete Williams Louisiana Blues lp lp 2011/1966 new Williams is one of the most idiosyncratic blues performers of any era. He improvises and picks/slides both notes and their many chopped-short cousins & distant relatives, out of of a...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Robin Dransfield A Lighter Touch 2cd 2cd 2008/1972-80 new UK folk that often sounds ten years earlier than it's recording date. Featuring tight bluegrass-style harmonizing with brother Barry, who also plays cello, & is known to you & me...	Hux	$25.50 Add:
Rockin With Wanda Jackson lp lp 2012/1960 new No woman made rockabilly as tough as Wanda's. Hank Thompson plucked her from obscurity while she was still in high school, and she carved out a career that survived well into the 70s...	Rumble	$21.50 Add:
Ronnie Henn Always On My Mind cd cd 2011/1983-92 new Honey smooth, baritone-voiced Indiana dad who tried driving down to Nashville once in a while to break into the country music business, but never got a break. Nashville was nearly...	Folk Evaluation	$13.00 Add:
Roscoe Holcomb The High Lonesome Sound lp lp 2009/1965 new Holcomb was discovered, unrecorded mind you, by the 60s folk revivalists & it's his voice that spawned the phrase 'high lonesome sound' to describe the bluegrass harmonies like that...	Smithsonian Folkways	$18.00 Add:
Roy Head & the Traits Live it Up cd cd 2010/1958-62 new Roy and his friends all went to high school together in San Marcos, Texas. Roy gathered crowds in the halls with his chicken-hop leg-accordion dancing, and the rest of the kids...	Norton	$12.50 Add:
Roy Head and the Traits Live it Up lp lp 2010/1958-62 new Roy and his friends all went to high school together in San Marcos, Texas. Roy gathered crowds in the halls with his chicken-hop leg-accordion dancing, and the rest of the kids...	Norton	$12.50 Add:
Sam Moore Moooohieee cd cd 2006/192x new Wonderful collection of priceless 78s by this extremely obscure player of saw, homemade steel guitar, and balloon! Came from Florida and made it to the Ziegfield follies on the...	EM	$19.50 Add:
Sandy Bull & the Rhythm Ace Live lp lp 2012/1976 new Bull pulls the kitchen sink into his live act, showing off his early drum machine, playing along to prerecorded basslines, talking for long sections. He even tries out a straight...	Drag City	$15.00 Add:
Sandy Bull E Pluribus Unum lp lp 2009/1969 new His 3rd, and it's one big electric vibrating quaver that's quite a bit more blues/SF hippie oriented than his earlier Vanguards. Bull plays electric through a throbbing set of 4...	Sutro Park	$17.50 Add:
Sandy Bull Inventions lp lp 2009/1964 new In the mid 60s, there were no hippies yet. So if you copped a few oud moves on your acoustic guitar, it meant you played jazz. The original liner notes in fact, go to the trouble of...	Sutro Park	$17.50 Add:
Sandy Bull Still Valentine's Day cd cd 2006/1969 new Bull sometimes gets tagged for being too much of a quoter (think about Quentin Tarantino or John Zorn), but this electric set shows how deeply organic his various genre-bending...	Water	$14.00 Add:
Sandy Denny She Moves Through the Fair lp lp 2009/1967 new Vinyl version of the earliest demos that first appeared on the 'Boxful of Treasures' set. Some of Denny's purest moments are here, in home recordings made when she was barely 19...	Stamford	$31.50 Add:
Shirley & Dolly Collins For As Many As Will cd cd 2012/1978 new Shirley's chocolatey, rich voice sits thickly amid the miniature pipe organ that her sister Dolly plays, making things even darker & thicker. Their last album before Shirley retired,...	Fledgling	$15.00 Add:
Shirley & Dolly Collins Snapshots cd cd 2006/1966-79 new A little collection of crumbs from UK folk's heaviest-laid table. Thick as cream dirges on organ and banjo. Shirley's rich & meaty voice always sounds best backed up by her sister...	Fledgling	$14.50 Add:
Shirley Collins & Davy Graham Folk Roots New Routes lp lp 2010/1964 new You wouldn't think this pairing would work, with Shirley's tree-trunk-thick, gooey, & lustrous voice matched to Graham's constantly shifting prickles of acoustic guitar. But the two...	Four Men With Beards	$20.50 Add:
Shirley Collins Adieu to Old England cd cd 1999/1974 new After the rock explorations of the Albion Country Band, Shirley strips things down to a smaller ensemble but one full of thick & tooting accompaniment. Concertina, flute organ, mouth...	Fledgling	$15.00 Add:
Shirley Collins False True Lovers lp lp 2009/1959 new Collins met Alan Lomax when she was 19. He was old enough to be her father, famous (at least in folk revival circles), and visiting England to escape the mid-50s communist scare in...	Vinyl Lovers	$14.00 Add:
Shirley Collins Power of the True Love Knot cd cd 2000/1968 new Rich and gooey as cheesecake, with majestic & grave pacing & teeth-sinking pipe organ arrangements. Shirley and Dolly with the Incredible String Band, & it's a major highlight of...	Fledgling	$14.50 Add:
Shirley Collins Sweet England cd cd 2010/1959 new Shirley was barely the age of a college student at the time of this recording, but she'd been living with Alan Lomax while he hung around London in self-imposed exile from the ugly...	Fledgling	$14.50 Add:
Shirley Collins Sweet Primeroses cd cd 1963-7 new The most beautiful voice in folk music, without peer. Besides the reissue of the 1967 album, you also get the 10 inch "Heroes in Love" from '63. Two of her prime documents in one place....	Topic	$14.50 Add:
Sid Hemphill The Devil's Dream lp lp 2013/1942 new Fife & quill recordings (wood flutes & pan pipes basically, but played by civil war vets) barely existed outside of Henry Thomas' 20s recordings until Alan Lomax went to a shack in...	Mississippi	$13.00 Add:
Skip James Jesus Is a Mighty Good Leader lp lp 2009/1931 new James' murderous, misanthropic mind is couched in a soft high howl & dazzling guitar & piano peacocking. After scuttling through whorehouses, his father's stuffy church, & nasty...	Monk	$23.50 Add:
Skip James The Complete 1931 Session lp lp 2013/1986/1931 new James' high, frail falsetto is one of the most haunting sounds recorded by humans. And underlined with his virtuoso and self-invented open D minor 3-finger picking style, no...	Yazoo	$17.00 Add:
Sleepy John Estes I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More 2lp 2lp 2010/1929-37 new Sounds just like Jo Ann Kelly, don't he? Estes was from Brownsville, TN & did the circuit of Memphis house parties with mandolin player Yank Rachel & harmonica player Hammie...	Monk	$32.00 Add:
Son House Father of Folk Blues lp lp 2012/1965 new House had been recorded in the early 30s as a tagalong to a Charlie Patton session, and then again by Alan Lomax in the early 40s. Before this album was recorded, he hadn't played...	Columbia	$16.00 Add:
Spider John Koerner lp lp 2013/1966-67 new John Koerner is the real person most folkie fans thought Bob Dylan was when they started liking him, at least before Dylan turned into whatever it is that Dylan actually is....	Nero's Neptune	$18.50 Add:
Stonemans All In the Family cd cd 2012/1965-68 new Family bluegrass band that was sort of a walking variety show. Led by their elder patriarch, who had made 78s in the 1920s. Perpetually in front of a tv audience however, they...	Omni	$19.50 Add:
The Amazing and Incredible Pete Drake cdr cdr 2010/1965 new Protoge of Jerry Byrd who became a greatly requested studio musician in Nashville during the mid-60s. After about 5 years of futzing around with a rubber hose in his mouth during...	BWIE	$5.00 Add: