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Folkways, 1979. New Copy Gatefold ... $12.99 16.98
A beautifully poetic take on the transplantation of African sounds in the US scene – played on a variety of different instruments by Bilal Abdurahman! The tracks are mostly short, percussive ones – with the strongest focus on instrumentation, but with occasional vocal refrains from ... (Global Grooves) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Folkways, 1982. New Copy Gatefold ... $12.99 16.98
Great long-form work from electronics wizard Jon Appleton – performed in the early 80s on the synclavier, but with the same sort of sensitivity as his early electronics experiments! Most tunes here are relatively extended – and work together with a slightly poetic feel that lives up to ... (Out Sound) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Folkways, 1980. New Copy Gatefold ... $12.99 16.98
A hip batch of underground poetry tracks – collected together by the Before Columbus Foundation, a group dedicated to promoting the works of African-American and Native American artists! Despite the 1980 date, the collection has a feel that's similar to earlier righteous poetry albums on the ... (Spoken Word) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Barons, Dominoes, Queenettes, & Others —
Roots – Rhythm & Blues ... LP 
Folkways, 1966. Very Good ... $29.99
A weird little album from the Folkways label – one that features a bunch of 50s-sounding R&B tracks, but packaged almost in an ethnographic style – as if commercial American music was being examined from an outside scientific source! Given that the date of the album is 1966, and ... (Soul) read more LP, Vinyl record album
(Includes booklet. Cover has light wear. Label has an ink stamp.)
Folkways, 1975. Used ... $6.99
David Cope —
Bach By Design – Computer Composed Music – Experiments In Musical Intelligence ... CD Centaur, 1994. Used ... $9.99
Country Gentlemen —
Sing & Play Folk Songs & Bluegrass ... LP Folkways, Mid 60s. Near Mint- ... Temporarily Out Of Stock
(Folk/Country) LP, Vinyl record album
(Black vinyl pressing in a yellow cover. Includes booklet. Cover has a trace of a price sticke, but looks great overall.)
Angela Davis —
Angela Davis Speaks ... CD Folkways, 1971. New Copy Gatefold ... Out Of Stock
A really unique document of the struggle and story of Angela Davis – recorded in 1971 by ABC news, and packaged together here as kind of a sonic program by Folkways! The record works like a short news program – starting out with a statement by Angela, then moving to a narrated ... (Spoken Word) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Nancy Dupree —
Letter To Young Sisters & Other Poems By Nancy Dupree ... CD Asch/Folkways, 1970. New Copy ... Out Of Stock
A fantastic record from Nancy Dupree – a hip poet with a mission towards raising social consciousness and increasing a sense of pride and power in the younger generation – all of which comes through very strongly in this classic Folkways Records set! The album is way more than just ... (Soul) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
East New York Ensemble De Music —
At The Helm ... CD Folkways, 1974. New Copy ... Out Of Stock
An extremely righteous bit of soul jazz – originally issued in a very small pressing by Folkway Records, at a time when the label was doing some great underground recordings! The sound is loose and free – spiritually building in a manner that recalls the work of Ahmed Abdul Malik, Phil ... (Global Grooves) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Langston Hughes —
Story Of Jazz ... CD Folkways, 1954. New Copy ... Out Of Stock
A very cool record! Langston tells the story of jazz, using snippets of work from the Folkways catalog – like tunes by Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodd, Ma Rainey, Leadbelly, and others – all sewn together in a rich narrative on the history of the music, delivered with some surprising ... (Spoken Word) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Langston Hughes —
Voice Of Langston Hughes ... CD Folkways, 1950s. New Copy ... Out Of Stock
A wonderful collection of work from Langston Hughes – material pulled from a handful of albums recorded for the Folkway labels in the 50s, all of which are pretty darn great and long out of print! Hughes' writings are well known – part of a rich tradition of African-American expression ... (Spoken Word) read more CD
Folkways, 1955. New Copy Gatefold ... $12.99 16.98
One of the weirdest sound effects ever recorded – a record that's filled with sounds of the human body! Side one features a bizzare surgical operation – narrated by the doctor, who's removing a cyst from the neck of a small boy. You hear his talking more than the operation, but side ... (Sound Library) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Folkways, 1963. Near Mint- ... $19.99
Folkways, Early 50s. Fair 2LP Set ... $7.99
(Blues) LP, Vinyl record album
(In the bound gatefold cover, with surface wear, split bottom seams, and half split spine. Includes the insert, worn and folded in half. Vinyl appears dull and has numerous press flaw bumps that crackle.)
Timothy Leary & Ralph Metzner —
Psychedelic Experience ... CD Folkways, 1966. New Copy Gatefold ... Out Of Stock
A wonderful early bit of psychedelia from an academic perspective – a record that features Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert – all reading from the book The Psychedelic Experience A Manual Based On The Tibetan Book Of The Dead! The album's divided up into two sections ... (Spoken Word) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Bob Lind —
Elusive Bob Lind ... LP Verve/Folkways, 1966. Sealed ... Just Sold Out!
Folkways, 1960. Very Good ... $3.99
(Folk/Country) LP, Vinyl record album
(Cover has a light stain along the top and a split bottom seam.)
Ann McMillan —
Gateway Summer Sound – Abstracted Animal & Other Sounds ... CD Folkways, 1979. New Copy ... Out Of Stock
A really beautiful record from Ann McMillan – one of the lesser-known talents in the female legacy of electronic music – but one we'd put right up there right next to Daphne Oram for her inventive genius! The set was recorded at the legendary Princeton Center For Electronic Music ... (Out Sound) read more CD
Kenneth Patchen —
Kenneth Patchen Reads With Jazz In Canada ... CD Folkways, 1958. New Copy ... Out Of Stock
Kenneth Patchen, like Kenneth Rexroth, was one of the few poets who really understood what it meant to read and write in a jazz idiom – as you'll hear on this excellent set of beatnik jazz tracks! The album features Patchen reading in a great style – angular, cynical, really working ... (Spoken Word) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Sonia Sanchez —
Sun Lady For All Seasons Reads Her Poetry ... CD Folkways, 1971. New Copy Gatefold ... Out Of Stock
Very righteous work from this obscure 70s poet – a contemporary to Nikki Giovanni, Camille Yarbrough, and others – but not nearly as widely recorded! The album features no instrumentation, just Sonia reading her poems – and the work itself is pretty progressive, very much in the ... (Spoken Word) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Tony Schwartz —
Sounds Of My City – The Stories, Music, & Sounds Of The People Of New York ... CD Folkways, 1959. New Copy ... Out Of Stock
Tony Schwartz must have been one of the coolest cats working on the New York scene in the 50s – not a musician, or a singer – but instead a sound artist whose legacy was dedicated to documenting the city in a very poetic way! This album may well be Tony's masterpiece – a long ... (Spoken Word) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Serious Bizness —
How Many More? ... CD Folkways, 1985. New Copy ... Out Of Stock
An album from the 80s, but one that echoes a much older tradition of folk and blues – with a vibe that hardly fits the dated spelling of the duo's name! Serious Bizness is the team of Jaribu and Ngoma Hill – who harmonize together on some very message-oriented music, in a way that was ... (Blues) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Folkways, 1976. New Copy Gatefold ... $12.99 16.98
A rough-edged batch of spiritual jazz tracks from trumpeter Charles "Cha Cha" Shaw (not to be confused with Charles "Bo Bo" Shaw) – recorded in an open-ended loft jazz mode with a really open, echoey feel! The album's a rare 70s jazz date on the Folkways label, and it's ... (Jazz) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Cha Cha Shaw —
Kingdom Come ... CD Folkways, 1979. New Copy Gatefold ... Out Of Stock
The second Folkways album from trumpeter Charles Shaw – and even more wonderful than the first! This one changes up the groove a bit – still sticking in Shaw's spiritual jazz vein at times, but also tripping things out a bit more with use of electric guitar and the ultra-cool "bag ... (Jazz) read more CD
(Special limited CD – pressed up for us by the Smithsonian Folkways label. Comes with original cover artwork, and the CD also features a PDF file with the original liner notes and other materials from the original record release.)
Folkways, 1920s/1930s/1940s. Used 2CD & Book ... $34.99
Harry Smith's much revered efforts to compile the deepest early-to-mid 20th Century American folk music resulted in the monumental Anthology Of American Folk Music box set – plus this later volume that didn't make it into the original set or the celebrated reissue – and sadly went ... (Folk/Country) read more CD
(Out of print. Paper band not included.)
Folkways, Mid 40s. Very Good+ ... $6.99
Includes selections by Art Tatum, Erroll Garner, Teddy Wilson, Mary Lou Williams, Willie The Lion Smith, and Meade Lux Lewis. (Jazz) LP, Vinyl record album
(70s issue. Includes the insert. Cover has light wear and aging.)
Folkways, 1930s/1940s. Near Mint- ... $14.99
With selections by Louis Armstrong, Baby Cox, Jelly Roll Morton, Ivy Anderson, Ella Fitzgerald, Leo Watson, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith, Dallas Jug Band, Ma Rainey, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Bertha Chippe Hill, Champion Jack Dupree, Sonny Terry, and others. (Jazz) LP, Vinyl record album
(Includes the booklet and business reply card.)
Various —
Jazz Volume 10 – Boogie Woogie ... LP Folkways, 1930s. Very Good ... $14.99
Includes work by Jim Jackson, Tampa Red, Georgia Tom, Speckled Red, Charlie Spand, Blind Blake, Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Big Bill Broonzy, Jimmy Yancey, Pete Johnson, Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds Of Joy, Jones-Smith Inc, Jay ... (Jazz) read more LP, Vinyl record album
(Early 60s issue in a green cover. Includes the booklet.)
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