People’s Picks: William Tyler

The initial inspiration for this playlist was the work of one of my heroes, the recordist Tony Schwartz. There was something in the stillness and isolation of Covid that drew me back to his street recordings of New York specifically. But this playlist is really my fan letter to Folkways as being this really democratic and diverse library of sound: the history of it, the possibilities of it, the beautiful strangeness of it.

Folkways Suggests
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Tony Schwartz Records the Sound of Children>
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Music in the Streets>
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An Actual Story in Sound of a Dog's Life>
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The World in My Mail Box>
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Millions of Musicians>
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