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One of the better releases from K-Tel's Back to Back series includes ten songs, five each from country gospel legends the Jordanaires and J.D. Sumner ... More

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This three-CD set might not be the essential guide to American roots music; how could even a 30-CD box be the be-all and end-all of that wide ... More

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It only takes a cursory look at the titles of the songs on Hard Times in the Country to get a clear picture of life in the rural South between 1927 ... More

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This three-disc, 30-track set (each of the discs is also available individually as The Best of Americana, Vol. 1, The Best of Americana, Vol. 2, and ... More

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This ten-track set (it's also available as the third volume of the three-volume box set The Best of Americana) hardly defines what exactly Americana ... More

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Here collected are "toasts" of the black American oral tradition. It is obvious that herein lie the roots of modern rap in its most nihilist of ... More

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All things considered, it's somewhat surprising that Josh White, Jr. hadn't recorded a full-fledged tribute album for his father earlier, but however ... More

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The critical consensus at the end of 2000 was that it had been one of the weakest film years in recent memory. Which may have been true, despite O ... More

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When the soundtrack to Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's film O Brother, Where Art Thou? was released in 2001, it ended up being a left-wing entry on the ... More

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Early old-time music had a great diversity of styles ranging from duos to fiddle virtuosos, from down-home blues to rambunctious string bands. While ... More

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From October 13 through October 19, 1929, OKeh Records recorded numerous roots musicians in various styles in Richmond, VA. This two-CD set presents ... More

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Despite its subtitle -- Early American Rural Love Songs -- Yazoo's The Rose Grew Round the Briar features at least as many falsehearted lovers and ... More

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The Newport Folk Festival was founded in 1959 by George Wein, who had already established the successful Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode ... More

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Mississippi fife legend Turner is joined on this outing by a loose union of players billed as the Afrosippi All Stars. This makeshift band is ... More

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This brief collection combines five tracks each from folk-blues songwriter and songster Leadbelly and country bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson in a ... More

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This third volume in Document's field recordings series may well be the most varied and arcane, collecting a series of sounding calls, hollers, rope ... More

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Collectables four-disc Leadbelly box set includes the albums Bourgeois Blues, Golden Classics: Pt. 2 (Defense Blues), Memorial, Vol. 1-2 and Memorial ... More

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A tribute to the bravery and dedication of the people involved in the Underground Railroad, 1998's Steal Away features Kim & Reggie Harris' stirring ... More

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The first golden age of recorded music in America came in the 1920s when the newly emerged record labels began putting out 78s, signing and releasing ... More

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