A New Year!
After a brief break, it’s great to be back at it in the fresh new year! We’re running the gamut this round! There is considerable blend of country and blues with some jazz, bossa nova and a couple other curveballs embedded throughout. Enjoy!
Playlist
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Doc Watson, “That Train That Carried My Girl from Town”
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1990
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Nadi Qamar, “After Glow”
from The Nuru Taa African Musical Idiom - Played On the Mama-Likembi - EP
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
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The Williamson Brothers & Curry, “The Fun's All Over”
from Old-Time Music of West Virginia, Vol. 2
Rebel Records - 1999
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Hank Bradley & Rick Shubb featuring Doc Watson, “Beaumont Rag”
from The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2021
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Corey Harris, “Keep your Lamp Trimmed and Burning”
Alligator Records - 1995
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Charles Mingus, “All the Things You Can C# (Live)”
from Mingus at The Bohemia (Live)
Fantasy Records - 1990
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Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys, Ricky Lee, “If I Lose/ Kitten and Cat”
from Live at the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian
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Jimmie Lunceford, “For Dancers Only”
from Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Jimmie Lunceford
Beyond Patina - 2012
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Little Hat Jones, “Kentucky Blues”
from My Rough and Rowdy Ways: Early American Rural Music. Badman Ballads and Hellraising Songs, Vol. 1
Yazoo - 2005
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Charlie Sayles, “Train Piece”
from Classic Harmonica Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2013
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Skip James & Jack Owens, “Hard Times”
from 50 Years Mississippi Blues in Bentonia
Wolf Records International GmbH - 2017
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Marie Knight, “Shadrack”
from The Decca Singles, Vol. 5
Verve Reissues - 2019
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Buck Ramsey, “Cowboy’s Lament (Streets of Laredo)”
from Classic American Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2015
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Vivien Richman, “A Ja Lejber Man”
from Vivien Richman Sings Folk Songs of West Pennsylvania
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
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Bamboushay Steel Band, “Kingston Town”
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
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Elmore James, “The Sky Is Crying”
from Shake Your Money Maker: The Best of the Fire Sessions
Buddha Records - 2001
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Lonnie Pitchford, “Boogie Chillun”
from Living Country Blues USA, Vol. 7 - Afro-American Blues Roots
L+R Records - 1982
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