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Classic Old-Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways
2003
Classic American Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways
2015
Classic Old-Time Fiddle from Smithsonian Folkways
2007
Bosavi: Rainforest Music from Papua New Guinea
2001
Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
2003
Return to the Land
Gordon Bok
1990
The First Fifteen Years, Vol. 1
Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett
1992
North Wind's Clearing
Gordon Bok
1995
The First Fifteen Years, Vol. 2
Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett
1992
If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle
Pete Seeger
1998
Hot Jazz, Cool Blues and Hard-Hitting Songs
Barbara Dane
2018
Music for Children, Music by Children
2017
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (1992, Vol. 6, No. 1): The Songwriters' Exchange
1992
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (June 1993, Vol. 7, No. 3): Eugene, Oregon
1993
Headlines and Footnotes: A Collection of Topical Songs
Pete Seeger
1999
Classic African-American Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways
2006
Heartbeat: Voices of First Nations Women
1995
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (November 1993, Vol. 7, No. 8): Los Angeles 1993
1993
Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways, Vol. 2
2003
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (September 1992, Vol. 6, No. 5)
1992
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (October 1995, Vol. 8, No. 4): New Voices NYC
1995
The Mississippi River of Song: A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi
1998
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (January 1996, Vol. 8, No. 6): Live at the Bottom Line 1995
1996
Streets of Glory
Old Reliable String Band
2003
The Louisville Burglar
The Iron Mountain String Band
2015
Johnson Boys
Caleb Finch with the Iron Mountain String Band
2007
Where Has My Mother Gone?
BVDC II String Band
2001
Don't Lie Buddy
Lead Belly and Josh White
2003
The Wreck of the Green Cove
Gordon Bok
1990
Gentle Annie
Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett
1992
Threeboot Philbrick's Lament
Gordon Bok
1995
Living on the River
Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett
1992
We Shall Overcome
Pete Seeger
1998
Victim to the Blues
Barbara Dane
2018
Go Waggaloo
Sarah Lee Guthrie
2017
Get Her into Shore
Gordon Bok
1990
From Way up Here
Pete Seeger
1999
The Muse
The Savants
1992
A Little Road and a Stone to Roll
Gordon Bok
1990
Clearcut Disillusion
T. R. Kelley
1993
Gallis Pole
Lead Belly
2006
Glitter Nights
Geraldine Barney
1995
Return to the Land
Gordon Bok
1990
These Dry Stone Walls
Gordon Bok
1990
I Held a Lady
Gordon Bok
1990
Sally
Gordon Bok
1990
Three Doors Down
Sandy Ross
1993
No Man's Land
Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett
1992
Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor
Lucinda Williams
2003
The Bells of Rhymney
Pete Seeger
1999
Song of the Wheelhouse Door
Gordon Bok
1990
In the Rose Garden (With the Bushes)
Don Haynie
1992
Banks of Marble
Pete Seeger
1998
Culebra
Gordon Bok
1990
John of Dreams
Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett
1992
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
Pete Seeger
1999
Pearly (Little Red)
Gordon Bok
1990
Bourgeois Blues
Pete Seeger
1998
Turn, Turn, Turn
Pete Seeger
1998
I've Got a Zoo Inside Me
Paul Clarke
1995
Sail Away Ladies
John Koerner
1998
This Old Mandolin
Gordon Bok
1990
Bare-Legged Kate
Gordon Bok
1990
O Mar (The Ocean)
Gordon Bok
1990
Waltzing with Bears
Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett
1992
Restless Soul
Lisa Nemzo
1993
The Gin and Rasberry
Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett
1992
Lament for Limerick
Gordon Bok
1990
The Swag and the Shiner
Gordon Bok
1990
If I Were You
Wendy Beckerman
1996
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