Folk music U.S.A. Vol. 1 / compiled by Harold Courlander.
| Format | Electronic, Audio (Streaming), and Musical Sound Recording |
| Publication Info | New York : Folkways Records, [1959], ©1958. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Vol. 1 |
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| Other author/creator | Brule, Ray. |
| Other author/creator | Cotten, Elizabeth. |
| Other author/creator | Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996. |
| Other author/creator | Davis, Mary Jo. |
| Other author/creator | Dodds, Baby, 1898-1959. |
| Other author/creator | Eaglin, Snooks, 1936-2009. |
| Other author/creator | Houston, Cisco. |
| Other author/creator | Hurd, Peter, 1904-1984. |
| Other author/creator | Johnson, Blind Willie. |
| Other author/creator | Lunsford, Bascom Lamar, 1882-1973. |
| Other author/creator | Perkins, Virgil. |
| Other author/creator | Randolph, Percy. |
| Other author/creator | Sims, Jack (Guitarist) |
| Other author/creator | Smith, Hobart, 1897-1965. |
| Other author/creator | Steele, Pete, 1891-1985. |
| Other author/creator | Alabama Sacred Harp Singers. |
| Series | Ethnic folkways library Ethnic Folkways library. ^A632055 |
| Contents | John Henry (Virgil Perkins, vocal, kazoo and washboard ; Jack Sims, 12-string guitar) -- Grizzly bear : Negro prison camp worksong -- Blowing the train (Percy Randolph, harmonica) -- Six thousand miles from nowhere (Snooks Eaglin, vocal, guitar) -- Dark was the night (Blind Willie Johnson, vocal, guitar) -- Amasee : children's ring game song -- Spooky drums (Warren "Baby" Dodds, drums -- Black Jack Davy) (Mary Jo Davis, vocal) -- Drunken sailor : dulcimer medley -- Ellen Smith (Pete Steele, vocal, 5- string banjo) -- Run, run (Elizabeth Cotton, guitar) -- Mole in the ground (Bascom Lamar Lunsford, vocal, 5-string banjo) -- Rolling river : country dance : fiddle, banjo, guitar -- Allons danser Colinda (Cajun dance) (Ray Brule, vocal, accordion) -- Sourwood Mountain (Square dance tune) (Hobart Smith, piano) -- Diamond Joe (Cowboy song) (Cisco Houston, vocal, guitar) -- Siete Leguas (Corrido) (Peter Hurd, vocal, guitar) -- Matachines dance -- Moonlight song : Taos Indian serenade -- War dance song (Flathead Indians) -- Esta Navidad : Puerto Rican Christmas song (Vocal and instrumental) -- Aguinaldo cagueno : Puerto Rican song (Vocal and instrumental) -- Rocky road (Alabama Sacred Harp Singers : shape-note singing) -- If we never meet again (Virgin Island children) -- Inviting-in dance song (Alaskan Eskimos). |
| General note | Accompanying notes by Charles Edward Smith laid in original container. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded between 1928 and 1958. |
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