Introducing American Folk Music

This recording is the audio companion to ethnomusicologist Kip Lornell’s 1993 edition of “Introducing American Folk Music.” Lornell researched the book while a postdoctoral fellow at Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. His book is used as a textbook in presenting the many styles and influences of folk music in America from the early nineteenth century to the present day. The 27 recordings serve as examples of these roots and origins of American folk music. The collection is composed of Anglo-American and African-American secular and sacred music, ethnic music of indigenous peoples (Native American and Hawaiian), ethnic music that has developed into important American musical sub-cultures (Tejano and Cajun) and the folk music revival of the 1960s.

Track Listing

101	Sally Goodin Glen Smith and Wade Ward	01:11
102	Untitled Quill Instrumental Joe Patterson	01:30
103	House Carpenter Jean Ritchie	04:19
104	When the Work's All Done This Fall Harry Jackson	02:25
105	Dig A Hole in the Meadow Red Allen	02:20
106	Wondrous Love (No. 143) Old Harp Singers of Eastern Tennessee	02:06
107	Away over the Promised Land Phillips Family	02:14
108	Jesus Gonna Make up My Dyin’ Bed Dock Reed	01:14
109	Talkin' 'Bout a Good Time Moving Star Hall Singers	01:12
110	Before I Get to Heaven (I'll Fly Away) Chambers Brothers	03:24
111	Don't Let His Name Go Down Effie Hall and the Holy Church of God	01:23
112	Chopping in the New Ground Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas	01:38
113	Rock Island Line Lead Belly	02:30
114	Night Cap Blues Big Joe Williams	02:54
115	Ot Azoy Klesmer Plus Tamburitza	03:54
116	Peyote Song Philip Broken Leg	02:19
117	Outdoor Powwow Chippewa powwow drum group, Onigum, Leech Lake Reservation	01:06
118	A Ko'olau au 'ike i ka ua Hoakalei Kamau'u	01:35
119	Jole Blonde Tony Allemand and Rufis Allemand	02:06
120	Minnesota Polka Karl and the Country Dutchmen	02:26
121	Ay te dejo en San Antonio Santiago Jiménez, Jr.	03:06
122	Madre Mia Chote Southern Scratch	03:21
123	Do, Re, Mi Woody Guthrie	02:30
124	This Land is Your Land The Harvesters, Walter, Ethel Raim	02:17
125	Shanty Boys Sandy Ives	02:26
126	Tell It to Me The Red Clay Rambers	02:29
127	Locomotive Blues Sonny Terry and Saunders Terrell	03:26