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Masters of the Steel String Guitar
2000
Sacred Steel: Traditional Sacred African-American Steel Guitar Music in Florida
1997
Original Hawaiian Steel Guitar
Tony Ku
1979
Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics 1927-1938
1993
Blue Yodeler and Steel Guitar Wizard
Cliff Carlisle
1996
Jesus Will Fix It! Sacred Steel Guitar Instrumentals
Sonny Treadway
1997
American Guitar: 19 Songs in 8 Folk Styles
Ed Badeaux
1958
Another Jubilee: Old Time Country and Cowboy Singing
2012
Shacktown Road
Norman Blake, Nancy Blake, Tut Taylor
2007
Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971
2023
Green Light on the Southern
Norman Blake
2011
The Poplin Family of Sumter, South Carolina
The Poplin Family
1963
A Bermuda Honeymoon in Song and Steel
The Esso Steel Band of Bermuda
1958
The Steel Drums of Kim Loy Wong
Kim Loy Wong with The University Settlement Steel Band
1961
Calypso Awakening from the Emory Cook Collection
2000
Calypso Exposed
1961
Recorded Live at the Second Sacred Steel Convention
2002
Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy
2024
South Texas Swing
Adolph Hofner and His Texans
1994
Songs of Steel and Struggle: The Story of the Steelworkers
Joe Glazer
1975
Vivien Richman Sings: Folk Songs of West Pennsylvania
Vivien Richman
1959
Jumps, Boogies and Wobbles
Howell Devine
2013
America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band, Vol. 2
The Maddox Brothers and Rose
1995
Memphis Charlie
Charlie Musselwhite
1989
Calypso in New York
Lord Invader
2000
Calypso Travels
Lord Invader and His Calypso Group
1959
Still Feel like Rollin': Songs about Trucks and Trains
Larry Penn
1987
I'm the Boss Card in Your Hand
Black Ace
1992
Music Used in Many Popular Television Commercials
1974
New Wind
Kevin Roth
1980
Black Cowboys
Dom Flemons
2018
First Through the Gate
Brian Conway
2002
The Montgomery Movement
The Montgomery Express
1974
Songs and Ballads of the Scottish Wars 1290-1745
Max Dunbar
1956
Camp Songs with Ella Jenkins and Friends
Ella Jenkins and Friends
2017
Opelousas Waltz
Austin Pitre and His Evangeline Playboys
1997
Live on the Radio
The Maddox Brothers and Rose
1998
Train Don't Leave Me
2001
Sacred Steel for the Holidays
The Campbell Brothers
2001
Sacred Steel Instrumentals
2004
The Best of Sacred Steel
2010
Texas-Czech: Bohemian-Moravian Bands: Historic Recordings 1929-1959
1993
Flyin' Hye!
Robert Takoushian and His Ensemble
1985
The Seductive Sounds of Hawaii: Polynesian Girl
Nani Wolfgramm and His Islanders
1986
20 Golden Hits of Hawaii
Nani Wolfgramm and His Islanders
1990
The Seductive Sounds of Hawaii: Polynesian Girl
Nani Wolfgramm and His Islanders
1993
Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes
Leyla McCalla
2020
Quelbe! Music of the U.S. Virgin Islands
Stanley and The Ten Sleepless Knights
2016
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Guide My Feet
Dan + Claudia Zanes
2024
Jesus Will Fix It for You
Sonny Treadway
1997
No Ways Tired
Calvin Cooke
1999
He's Sweet, I Know
The Campbell Brothers with Brother Sam Baldwin and Bishop Larry Boston
1999
Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Poor Man's Friend
Willie Eason
2010
Grand Mamou
Nathan Abshire
2013
Palolo
Kane's Hawaiians
1993
How I Miss You Tonight
Adolph Hofner
1994
Why Should I Cry over You?
Adolph Hofner
1994
Don't Play No Andrews Sisters
Baby Gramps
1984
When God Dips His Love in My Heart
The Maddox Brothers and Rose
1998
Fight the Devil
Louise Taylor
1996
The Ballad of Mary Magdalene
Lucy Kaplansky
1996
Old Age Pension Check
The New Lost City Ramblers
1959
Basile Cajun Hour: Commercials, Station Identification, Madeleine
Dewey Balfa
1977
Interview on Cajun Dances: Jolie Blon
Dewey Balfa
1977
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Sacred Steel: The Steel Guitar Tradition of the House of God Churches (DVD)
2001
Catalog
2022
Musical Rhythms to Learn, Love, and Share
2015
Arhoolie Records- Discography
2020
A Corrido of Struggle: Remembering Roberto Martínez and the Black Berets through “El Corrido de Córdova y Canales”
2013
Ella Jenkins: The First Lady of Children's Music
2014
Arhoolie Records
2020
Lesson Plans
2009
Connecting Cultures: Music of the Mekong River
2009
¡Cimarrón! Joropo Music from the Plains of Colombia | Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
2011
A Field Guide to... Alabama
2024
A Field Guide to... North Carolina
2022
People's Picks: Wendy Eisenberg
2024
A Field Guide to... Peru
2024
The Folkways 75
2023
People's Picks: Nora Brown
2023
People's Picks: David Pajo
2022
No-No Boy- No-No Boy- "Little Monk" (Official Music Video)
No-No Boy
2023
No-No Boy- "Nashville" (Official Music Video)
No-No Boy
2024
Exploring and Protecting Nature with Ella Jenkins: I Like Animals
2024
Catch the Calypso beat and put it on your feet!
2012
Island Soundscape: Musics of Hawaiʻi, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea
2010
Celebrating Trinidadian Steelband Music!
2010
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