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The CooP: Fast Folk Musical Magazine (May 1982, Vol.1, No. 4): The Political Song Revisited
1982
Well May the World Go
Larry Long
2000
American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1
Pete Seeger
2002
American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2
Pete Seeger
2003
Friends of Old Time Music: The Folk Arrival 1961-1965
2006
15 Regional Music Classics of Mexico
1997
Minneapolis Concert
Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, Ed Trickett
1987
Frank Hamilton Sings Folk Songs
Frank Hamilton
1962
Gazette, Vol. 1
Pete Seeger
1958
The Country Blues, Vol. 2
1970
Sea Songs
Stan Hugill, X Seamen's Insitute and David Jones
1980
What Now People? Vol. 2
1977
Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways, Vol. 2
2003
Pete Seeger Sings Leadbelly
Pete Seeger
1968
When We Make It Through
Barbara Dane
1982
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (September 1992, Vol. 6, No. 5)
1992
The CooP: Fast Folk Musical Magazine (April 1982, Vol. 1, No. 3)
1982
Black Cowboys
Dom Flemons
2018
So Goes My Heart
Ann Mayo Muir
1985
The Promise of the Sowing
Dan Schatz
2015
In a Place Called Chenango
Fred Gee
1983
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (November 1985, Vol. 2, No. 9): Women in Song
1985
The Art of the Folk-Blues Guitar: An Instruction Record
Jerry Silverman
1964
The Rural Blues: A Study of the Vocal and Instrumental Resources
1960
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (April 1984, Vol. 1, No. 4): Live at the Bottom Line 1984
1984
The CooP: Fast Folk Musical Magazine (November 1982, Vol. 1, No. 10): Women in Song
1982
Classic Folk Music from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
2004
15 Early Tejano Classics
1997
Folk Music U.S.A., Vol. 1
1958
Teton Tea Party with Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown
1967
Mexican-American Border Music: An Introduction: Pioneer Recording Artists 1928-1958
1994
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (October 1986, Vol. 3, No. 8): Season's Greetings
1986
Indian Summer: Original Sound Track Music
Pete Seeger and Michael Seeger
1960
First Queen of Tejano Music
Lydia Mendoza
1996
Orquestas de Cuerdas: The String Bands: The End of a Tradition 1926-1938
1996
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (September 1985, Vol. 2, No. 7): Cafe Lena 25th Anniversary
1985
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (December 1985, Vol. 2, No. 10)
1985
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (October 1995, Vol. 8, No. 4): New Voices NYC
1995
Turning Toward the Morning
Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, Ed Trickett
1975
The CooP: Fast Folk Musical Magazine (September 1983, Vol. 2, No. 7)
1983
Cowboy Songs on Folkways
1991
The Mississippi River of Song: A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi
1998
Virginia Traditions: Southwest Virginia Blues
1988
Folk Music of Washington Square
1962
Fast Folk Musical Magazine (October 1985, Vol. 2, No. 8)
1985
Go Waggaloo
Sarah Lee Guthrie and Family
2009
The Music of Ann Mayo Muir
Ann Mayo Muir
2000
Roots and Branches
Lorre Wyatt
1985
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Transposing / D Tuning / Capo on 6-String
Pete Seeger, Lead Belly
1962
C Position / Walking Bass / 1st and 2nd String in Unison
Pete Seeger, Lead Belly
1962
Use of the Fingers / Syncopated Bass / Opening Patterns / Beat on the 5th String
Pete Seeger, Lead Belly
1962
Guitar Rag
Mike Seeger
2007
Key of A (A7) / Runs / Playing the Bass Strings
Pete Seeger, Lead Belly
1962
Medley in "D"
Six and Seven-Eighths String Band
1981
C-U-B-A
Any Old Time String Band
2013
Falls of Richmond / Camp Chase
Any Old Time String Band
1996
Hootchie Kootchie
Mississippi String Band, Tom Johnson, and John Copeland
1956
I Am a Pilgrim
Iron Mountain String Band
1981
Clarinet Marmalade
Six and Seven-Eighths String Band
1981
La Porte Dans Arriere (The Back Door)
Any Old Time String Band
1996
Streets of Glory
Old Reliable String Band
2003
Farewell Blues
Any Old Time String Band
1996
Dallas Rag
Dallas String Band
1950
Milwaukee Blues
Dr. Humbead’s New Tranquility String Band
2021
The Louisville Burglar
The Iron Mountain String Band
2015
Long Lost Lover Blues
Any Old Time String Band
2013
East Tennessee Blues
Old Reliable String Band
1963
I've Got What It Takes
Any Old Time String Band
2013
High Society
Six and Seven-Eighths String Band
1981
The Raging Canal
William Hullfish, Golden Eagle String Band
1981
Johnson Boys
Caleb Finch with the Iron Mountain String Band
2007
Manzanares: D minor
Grand Curucaye String Orchestra of Trinidad
1956
New River Train
Iron Mountain String Band
2006
I've Got What It Takes
Any Old Time String Band
1996
Little Sparrow
Iron Mountain String Band
1973
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
The Six and Seven-Eights String Band of New Orleans
1956
Where Has My Mother Gone?
BVDC II String Band
2001
Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
Any Old Time String Band
1996
Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard
1965
Gonna Lay down My Old Guitar
Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard
2022
Mountain Strings
Sierra Hull
2024
The Strong in Spirit
Hugh Blumenfeld
1983
John
Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, Ed Trickett
1985
Yellow Gal
Lead Belly
1996
4, 5, and 9
Lead Belly
1996
John Henry
Lead Belly
1997
Cowboy Song
Lead Belly
1997
Don't Lie Buddy
Lead Belly and Josh White
2003
The Titanic
Lead Belly
2015
House of the Rising Sun
Lead Belly and Martha Ledbetter
2015
Bells of Rhymney
Pete Seeger
2012
Good, Good, Good (Talking, Preaching) / We Shall Walk Through the Valley
Lead Belly
2015
Ain't You Glad (The Blood Done Signed My Name)
Lead Belly
2015
Poor Howard
Lead Belly
2015
Hard Travelling
Pete Seeger
2019
OPA Shout
Pete Seeger
2019
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The Roots and Branches of Virginia Music: The past is present
2009
Joseph Spence: Bahamian master guitarist
2009
A Field Guide to... The Ozarks
2022
Dança!: Movement and Music of Brazil
2010
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