Various Artists - Newport Folk Festival 2 / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This volume is half of a two-recording set that includes recordings not issued on the Vanguard or Elektra Newport compilations. It features folk songs and ballads sung by Irish, Canadian, and American singers, as well as selections from Louisiana blues singers Willie Thomas and Butch Cage.

Negura Bunget - Focul Viu [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/05/2011

Beginning in 1977, folklorist Art Rosenbaum traveled around northern Georgia making field recordings of singers who learned their music from the oral tradition. The outcome was a two-volume anthology and a book by the same title. The first half of Volume 2 features Inchblack frolic songs, work songs and blues,Inch to the accompaniment of guitar, banjo, harmonica, and fiddle. The second half features white Inchstring band music, banjo tunes and songs.Inch Rosenbaum's liner notes provide detailed information about the singers and each song, as well as song lyrics and photographs of the musicians and singers.