Folk, Country & Pre-War



Pix Title- Label Price
The Hokum Boys You Can't Get Enough of That Stuff lp

The Hokum Boys You Can't Get Enough of That Stuff lp

lp 2011/1975/1928-29 new Blind Blake, Ikey Robinson, Leroy Carr, Scrapper Blackwell, & Tampa Red all passed through this Chicago area band. There were lots of 'hokum' bands and even genres between...
Yazoo $17.00

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The Incomparable Cackle Sisters cdr

The Incomparable Cackle Sisters cdr

cdr 2012/194x new The Dutch DeZurik sisters were raised along the Mississippi river, grew up on a farm and imitated the animals there, especially the chickens. Their laser-sharp harmonizing and...
BWIE $5.00

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These Trails cd

These Trails cd

cd 2011/1973 new Tender & ethereal private press from Honolulu. Crosses early 70s folkie moves with vintage Hawaiian songs, where tinkly dulcimer sits in for steel guitar/ukulele. Reedy femme...
Drag City $13.00

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This Is Howlin' Wolf's New Album cd

This Is Howlin' Wolf's New Album cd

cd 2011/1968 new The bungee cord between Howlin Wolf & Captain Beefheart snaps back hard on this wah-slathered hard psych record, that has sitar, phasing, flute, etc. Inspired by the success of...
Get on Down $14.00

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Tim Buckley 2cd

Tim Buckley 2cd

2cd 2011/1966 new On this first album, Buckley is still only 19 years old, but his voice is already distinctive, plopping down like a fat lady on the bus & sounding closer to Grace Slick than anybody...
Light in the Attic $38.00

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Tim Buckley Live at the Folklore Center cd

Tim Buckley Live at the Folklore Center cd

cd 2009/1967 new Intimate solo acoustic concert from a small folk music shop on 6th avenue in NYC. Several original songs which never made it to a record, along with a requisite Fred Neil cover, etc....
Tompkins Square $15.50

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Tim Buckley Lorca lp

Tim Buckley Lorca lp

lp 2006/1970 new Haunting & transcendent dirge songs that are so far beyond folk they just don't have a genre anymore. Soaring wild & stormy vocals over moody electric undertow have made this one an...
4 Men With Beards $16.50

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Tim Buckley Starsailor lp

Tim Buckley Starsailor lp

lp 2007/1970 new Long unavailable & a pain in the ass to find as an original, this is famed as Buckley's most avant lp & a good companion to 'Lorca'. It is an unusual record- it doesn't come off as...
4 Men With Beards $18.00

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Tony Caro & John Blue Clouds lp

Tony Caro & John Blue Clouds lp

lp 2012/1972-77 new Pixie-fried folk guys (and one girl) who got themselves a keybord & threw some great fuzzed-out electric guitar licks along the more expected bongo boinks & jew's harp plunks. An...
Drag City $17.00

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Trevor Lucas Overlander lp

Trevor Lucas Overlander lp

lp 2013/1966 new UK folk fella originally from Australia who ended up in Fairport & Fotheringay & was married to Sandy Denny when she died in the mid 70s. Lucas started his own electric band,...
Klimt $23.00

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Various A Short Life of Trouble lp

Various A Short Life of Trouble lp

lp 2013/1927-43 new Adding electricity to the recording process round about 1925 allowed softer instruments that people had in their houses, like dulcimers, little guitars, or autoharps, to be picked...
Mississippi $13.00

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Various Aimer et Perdre 2cd

Various Aimer et Perdre 2cd

2cd 2012/1917-34 new Creole French, Polish, & Ukranian folks who had recently immigrated to the US sing songs from home about the separation from loved ones. Wedding dance tunes to accompany...
Tompkins Square $26.00

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Various Aimer et Perdre 3lp

Various Aimer et Perdre 3lp

3lp 2012/1917-34 new Creole French, Polish, & Ukranian folks who had recently immigrated to the US sing songs from home about the separation from loved ones. Wedding dance tunes to accompany...
Angry Mom $51.00

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Various Anthology of American Folk Music Vol. 4 2lp

Various Anthology of American Folk Music Vol. 4 2lp

2lp 2011/1952/1926-40 new Alchemic milk-dribbler, 78 preservationist, filmmaker, easter egg collector, Fugs producer, and all around drug-addled crackpot Harry Smith was, among other things, one of...
Doxy $31.00

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Various Art of Field Recording Sampler cd

Various Art of Field Recording Sampler cd

cd 2006/1958-06 new 2nd generation folklorist & visual artist Art Rosenbaum's recordings of blues, banjo, fiddle, gospel & more. More digestible than the big 4cd box. There are a few well known...
Dust To Digital $14.00

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Various Cluck Old Hen cd

Various Cluck Old Hen cd

cd 2012/1926-40 new 78 labels love to put together thematic compilations, but Old Hat is one of the few you can trust not to recycle cuts you already have, AND they aren't afraid to be as hayseed &...
Old Hat $17.00

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Various Contemporary Guitar lp

Various Contemporary Guitar lp

lp 2012/1967 new Takoma label acoustic sampler that eventually inspired the one-man-reunion of Harry Taussig, as well as the 'Imaginational Anthem' compilation of a couple years back. Has a long...
4 Men With Beards $18.00

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Various Country Funk 2lp

Various Country Funk 2lp

2lp 2012/197x new Southern US swamps and dirt road struts meet up with slick LA session cats who play crackin' drum breaks. Ex rockabilly cat Dale Hawkins shows exactly how much Creedence stole from...
Light in the Attic $23.50

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Various Country Funk cd

Various Country Funk cd

cd 2012/197x new Southern US swamps and dirt road struts meet up with slick LA session cats who play crackin' drum breaks. Ex rockabilly cat Dale Hawkins shows exactly how much Creedence stole from...
Light in the Attic $15.00

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Various Desperate Man Blues cd

Various Desperate Man Blues cd

cd 2006/1927-62 new Deeply loved 78s filled with grooves of ecstatic faery dust and raw, uncultured humanity. All carefully chosen for you by one of America's great 78 collectors, Joe Bussard....
Dust To Digital $14.00

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Various Down in the Basement cd

Various Down in the Basement cd

cd 2002/1926-37 new If you want to go to heaven when you d-i-e you got to put on your collar and go see Joe Bussard, the man from Fredereck Maryland with the big bustin basement full of incredibly...
Old Hat $17.00

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Various Drop on Down in Florida 2cd + book

Various Drop on Down in Florida 2cd + book

2cd + book 2012/1977-81 new Acoustic blues, back porch gospel, a guy who attached a wire to a door & played slide with a whiskey bottle, plus shape note church congregation recordings, all from the...
Dust To Digital $35.50

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Various Drop On Down in Florida 2lp

Various Drop On Down in Florida 2lp

2lp 2013/1977-81 new Acoustic blues, back porch gospel, a guy who attached a wire to a door & played slide with a whiskey bottle, plus shape note church congregation recordings, all from the humid...
Florida Folklife $39.00

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Various Fire in My Bones 3cd

Various Fire in My Bones 3cd

3cd 2009/1944-07 new Compiled by Mike McGonigal (Yeti, Chemical Imbalance), this set airs the rapacious growth of interest in postwar gospel in the last few years. There's a few performers who've...
Tompkins Square $26.00

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Various Five Days Married and Other Laments lp

Various Five Days Married and Other Laments lp

lp 2013/1928-58 new Greek 78s from rural areas, as opposed to the better-known rembetika of the city hash dens. Instead of slow pointed dances with evil & angry lyrics, these songs have clarinets...
Angry Mom $21.50

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Various Five Minutes to Midnight 10 inch

Various Five Minutes to Midnight 10 inch

10 inch 2012/196x new Late 60s & early 70s gospel-soul. In the mood to grieve over your impending death? Missionary Mamie Sample's song gave it's title to Mike McGonigal's 'This May Be My Last Time...
Mississippi $13.00

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Various Gastonia Gallop cd

Various Gastonia Gallop cd

cd 2009/1927-31 new A bump on a log outside of Charlotte, NC, Gastonia (which I'm told by a southerner here in the shop, rhymes with Petunia) was once the home of the largest cotton mills in the...
Old Hat $17.00

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Various Gennett Old Time Music 4cd

Various Gennett Old Time Music 4cd

4cd 2010/1927-34 new Known best for it's early jazz catalog, the Gennett label, born as the arm of a piano company in Indiana, also recorded a ton of now-obscure hillbilly/blues sides. They were the...
JSP $26.00

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Various Give Me Love Songs of the Brokenhearted Baghdad 2lp

Various Give Me Love Songs of the Brokenhearted Baghdad 2lp

2lp 2008/1925-29 new More amazing 78s dug out of the EMI archive, this time documenting the rich, fluid, urban kaleidescope of 20s Baghdad. Arabic folk singers, professional Jewish oud players, dabka...
Honest Jon's $19.00

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Various Harmonica Blues lp

Various Harmonica Blues lp

lp 2012/1976/1928-36 new Loud & cheap, the harmonica could travel with even the most destitute, and in the right hands it could imitate trains, chickens, people talking, babies crying, a whole band,...
Yazoo $17.00

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Various How Low Can You Go 3cd

Various How Low Can You Go 3cd

3cd 2006 new There wouldn't be any bottom in the black bottom stomp without the extra big stand up string bass. Back when jazz, blues, country, rockabilly, calypso, vaudeville, and hawaiian music...
Dust To Digital $50.00

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Various I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces 2cd

Various I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces 2cd

2cd + book 2011/192x new Record collectors often say the joy is in the chase rather than the acquisition, but Steve Roden knows well, it'd be more accurate to say it's in the cracks between them...
Dust To Digital $43.50

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Various Imaginational Anthem Vol. 6 cd

Various Imaginational Anthem Vol. 6 cd

cd 2013/1923-30 new The 78s that inspired guitar pickers & collectors of the 1960s, Fahey, Basho, Kottke, & even Harry Smith, etc. All acoustic guitar, some fingerstyle & some slide. In the years...
Tompkins Square $14.00

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Various Imaginational Anthem Vol. 6 lp

Various Imaginational Anthem Vol. 6 lp

lp 2013/1923-30 new The 78s that inspired guitar pickers & collectors of the 1960s, Fahey, Basho, Kottke, & even Harry Smith, etc. All acoustic guitar, some fingerstyle & some slide. In the years...
Tompkins Square $15.50

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Various In the Pines cd

Various In the Pines cd

cd 2008/1926-36 new Squawking raw fiddle & banjo tunes from North Carolina. More stout & rockin' than the wiley sound of appalachian mountain music, there's nonetheless a big dollop of...
Old Hat $16.50

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Various Last Time Around lp

Various Last Time Around lp

lp 2011/1948-98 new To my mind, some of the most interesting compilations on Mississippi are it's raw gospel series, & this is the 3rd (First two were 'Life Is A Problem' & 'Oh Graveyard You Can't...
Mississippi $13.50

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Various Legendary Wild Rockers 2 2lp

Various Legendary Wild Rockers 2 2lp

2lp 2012/1957-64 new Not in love with the cover art for this series, but the sounds are tops. Screamin' fast rave-ups with hairtrigger twangin guitar riffs & sleazy sax honkin. Gals chasin' guys,...
BBE $23.50

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Various Local Customs Lone Star Lowlands 2lp

Various Local Customs Lone Star Lowlands 2lp

2lp 2010/1969-74 new Compilation of quiet & laid back country rock from the cracker triangle, the area of Southeast Texas which spawned 50s performers like George Jones, the Big Bopper & Johnny...
Numero $21.50

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Various Lone Star Lowlands cd

Various Lone Star Lowlands cd

cd 2010/1969-74 new Compilation of quiet & laid back country rock from the cracker triangle, the area of Southeast Texas which spawned 50s performers like George Jones, the Big Bopper & Johnny...
Numero $17.00

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Various Mississippi Blues lp

Various Mississippi Blues lp

lp 2011/1967/1927-41 new Raw blues 101 & an instant classic even as it was released, 1st record on the peerless Yazoo label (which was originally called 'Belzona'). Perennially dazzling, even...
Yazoo $16.50

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Various Oh Run Into Me But Don't Hurt Me cd

Various Oh Run Into Me But Don't Hurt Me cd

cd 2008/1923-30 new Vaudeville floozies, crack guitar heroines, innuendo-riddled honkytonk stompers, & forgotten femmes from encrusted Vocalion & Victor 78s. Four different collectors contributed...
Sub Rosa $14.00

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Various Opika Pende 4cd

Various Opika Pende 4cd

4cd 2011/1909-196x new "Around one musical corner is another and another." It took both high-minded scholars and opportunistic furniture-sellers to capture a cross-section of music as diverse and...
Dust To Digital $53.00

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Various People Take Warning 3cd

Various People Take Warning 3cd

3cd 2007/1913-38 new Themed collection of 78s with a decent variety of performers- some rags, some blues, some tin pan alley, some clawhammer picking, and so on. Disc one features wrecks by trains,...
Tompkins Square $18.50

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Various Please Warm My Weiner lp

Various Please Warm My Weiner lp

lp 2011/1974/1928-35 new Droll skits about crap games, sweet duets with lots of flirting, harmony singing over Memphis style rags, etc. Vulgarity is thankfully popular everywhere & all the time, but...
Yazoo $16.50

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Various Secret Museum of Mankind Vol. 2 2lp

Various Secret Museum of Mankind Vol. 2 2lp

2lp 2010/1925-48 new Essential series of 78s that ring the globe. Pat Conte's beautiful series seems to be making the slow transition to vinyl, & I couldn't be more pleased to see it happen.....
Outernational $27.00

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Various Shbahoth: Iraqi Jewish Song From the 1920s cd

Various Shbahoth: Iraqi Jewish Song From the 1920s cd

cd 2004/192x new Ancient tongue poetry ululations & forlorn yawps to the heavens that were written to accompany Qabalah acrostics. But you also get a sloppy brass band & some pretty natty cimbalom...
Renair $19.00

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Various Shim Sham Shimmy lp

Various Shim Sham Shimmy lp

lp 2008/1945-50 new 3rd volume in a series compiled by blues boogie collector in Belgium. This one's devoted to uptown electric blues from around the end of WWII. Dirty guitar & screechy harmonica...
Sub Rosa $14.00

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Various Sorrow Come Pass Me Around lp

Various Sorrow Come Pass Me Around lp

lp 2013/1965-73 new Fife & drum and low key back porch shack blues players in rural Georgia, New Orleans, Mississippi, Memphis, & a naval base in Ridgecrest, California. A couple of church...
Dust To Digital $22.00

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Various Southern Folk Heritage Series 7lp

Various Southern Folk Heritage Series 7lp

7lp 2012/1959-60 new The entirety of Alan Lomax's famed southern journey. Lomax had just returned from a long stint in the UK, and Atlantic Records sent him (along with his much younger girlfriend...
Doxy $160.00

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Various Sprigs of Time cd

Various Sprigs of Time cd

cd 2008/1903-57 new Third dip into the giant EMI archive of long lost 78s by Honest Jon's, and this one skips around from place to place much like Pat Conte's 'Secret Museum of Mankind' series for...
Honest Jon's $16.00

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