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Cover StoryThe Look of the Listen: The Cover Art of Folkways RecordsThe Look of the Listen is a website that explores the breadth and diversity of Folkways cover art...
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Artist SpotlightTransparency as Authenticity?Ronald Clyne designed approximately 500 covers for Folkways Records...
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Archive SpotlightCovering the Revolution: Paredon Records Album ArtIn these interview excerpts, founders Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber talk album cover art...
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Tools for TeachingThe Look of the Listen: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Lesson PlanOpportunities for teaching and learning about how music is aligned with visual art...
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video spotlight"Freight Train" by Elizabeth "Libba" CottenElizabeth “Libba” Cotten performs “Freight Train.” Cotten (1895-1987) built her musical legacy on a firm foundation of late-19th- and early-20th-century African American instrumental traditions and fine musicianship. The Smithsonian Folkways album Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (a reissue of her first 1958 LP) features a cover photograph of Cotten by David Gahr.
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From the Collection
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Satchmo at the National Press Club: Red Beans and Rice-ly YoursLouis Armstrong, Tyree Glenn, Tommy Gwaltney
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The Complete Bowdoin College Concert, 1960Pete Seeger
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Jazz: The Smithsonian AnthologyVarious Artists
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Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial CollectionWoody Guthrie
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Uncle Bouqui of Haiti: By Harold CourlanderAugusta Baker
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Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and TunesElizabeth Cotten