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	Unidentified male Sioux singer with gourd rattle and water drum	02:19
117	Outdoor Powwow	Chippewa Pow-wow drum group in 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