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2) Spellbound
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[2022]
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English
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Folk icon and cultural treasure Judy Collins continues her astounding career renaissance with a deeply introspective, lovingly crafted 29th studio album. This very special song cycle is a first in Collins's long career - it's her first collection of all original material written by entirely by her.
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In Dan Zanes' House Party!, the Grammy Award-winning children's artist presents a huge collection of folk songs along with inspiration to start your own family band. Too often, new parents eager to share their love of music with their young children feel their options are limited to cuddly singing dinosaurs and well-meaning humans whose understanding of children's music starts with "Kumbaya" and ends with "Puff the Magic Dragon." For many sane adults,...
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English
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Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Ten Thousand Miles from Home, Shack Bully Holler, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Bad Man Ballad, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Bear in the Hill, Shortenin' Bread, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.
5) Seven psalms
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Recorded entirely on acoustic instruments, and performed by Simon, this album showcases Simon's craft at its finest and most captivating, simply with his voice and guitar. Intended to be listened to as one continuous piece, the 33-minute, seven-movement composition transcends the concept of the "album". A stunning, intricately layered work, it's a record which establishes an engaging and meditative, hymnal soundscape, with Simon's lyrics providing...
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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When we think of folk music, most of us picture Pete Seeger singing "This Land is My Land" or Joan Baez singing "Barbara Allen." But this stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, in a wide-ranging portrait that goes far beyond America's shores to discuss folk music of every possible kind and in every corner of the globe. Written by award-winning musicologist Mark Slobin, this is the first compact...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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The collection of childhood favorites was recorded for fun, at home, with family and friends in the spirit of sharing. Everyone is welcome. Dickinson wanted to share these songs with his kids and his friend's kids as well as expose his daughters to the joy of learning, performing and recording music that his father shared with me. The recording was largely done in 2017 during dinner parties, sleep overs and play dates, either in a family style social...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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Multiple
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From the beating heart of the capital city Bamako to the rich musical soils of Niafunké, Mali has become synonymous with the raw desert blues sound. Featuring the likes of the legendary Tuareg band Tartit as well as Songhai bluesman Samba Touré, this Rough Guide also includes tracks by other unsung heroes, all of whom share the same goal of preserving a culture under serious threat.
17) Noon
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[2020]
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English
Description
The unlikely partnership between acoustic guitar pioneer Leo Kottke and Phish bassist Mike Gordon continues with the long-awaited first new album in fifteen years. Couching late-night melancholy in a summer lilt, the album features eleven tracks of warmly askew songs and intricate playing, and the intimate third voice created by Kottke and Goron, two of the most accomplished and idiosyncratic instrumentalists in American music.
19) Voices
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English
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Tom Rush's new CD that fans of modern folk music and contemporary singer-songwriters have been waiting for 50 years. Well known for his golden ear for significant new songs by little-known writers, the New England-based singer-guitarist, one of the last giants of the early 60s folk boom.
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In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the lost treasures of English roots music and update them for the new age. The records of Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, and Nick Drake are known as "folk rock" today, but Rob Young's epic, electrifying book makes clear that those musicians led a decades-long quest to recover English music-and...
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