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  • Blind Alfred Reed 'Appalachian Visionary' - Cargo Records UK

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    Blind Alfred Reed 'Appalachian Visionary' CD + Hardcover Book

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    Born blind on June 15, 1880, in Floyd County, Virginia, Alfred Reed grew up on a West Virginia farm. In the 1920s, when radio became available in his area, Alfred listened to and enjoyed performances by several of the era's popular singers.

    Alfred would purchase songbooks and hymnbooks, and his wife Nettie would read the lyrics to him. Because the songs he learned from others did not always express aspects of what he was thinking, feeling, and experiencing, Alfred felt compelled to compose his own songs, and he was exceptionally talented in this endeavor'a craftsman with many things to say.

    Relying upon his talent to generate money, he gave music lessons, performed at dances and various social and church gatherings, sold printed copies of his own lyrics, and, in 1927 and 1929, made the commercial recordings included on this set. 10.

    Tracklisting for all formats:
    1. Blind Alfred Reed - The Wreck of the Virginian
    2. Blind Alfred Reed - I Mean to Live for Jesus
    3. Blind Alfred Reed - You Must Unload
    4. Blind Alfred Reed - Walking In The Way With Jesus
    5. Blind Alfred Reed - Explosion In The Fairmount Mines
    6. Blind Alfred Reed - Fate Of Chris Lively And Wife
    7. Blind Alfred Reed - Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls
    8. Blind Alfred Reed - Always Lift Him Up And Never Knock Him Down
    9. Blind Alfred Reed - The Prayer Of The Drunkard's Little Girl
    10. The West Virginia Night Owls - Sweet Bird
    11. The West Virginia Night Owls - I'm Goin'To Walk The Streets Of Glory
    12. Orville Reed - The Telephone Girl
    13. Blind Alfred Reed - Woman's Been After Man Ever Since
    14. Blind Alfred Reed - Why Do You Bob Your Hair Girls-No. 2
    15. Blind Alfred Reed and Orville Reed - There'll Be No Distinction There
    16. Blind Alfred Reed and Orville Reed - We've Got To Have 'Em, That's All
    17. Blind Alfred Reed and Orville Reed - Beware
    18. Blind Alfred Reed and Orville Reed - The Old-Fashioned Cottage
    19. Blind Alfred Reed - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?
    20. Blind Alfred Reed - Black And Blue Blues
    21. Blind Alfred Reed and Orville Reed - You'll Miss Me
    22. Blind Alfred Reed - Money Cravin' Folks
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  • Brother Claude Ely 'Ain'â„¢t No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely' - Cargo Records UK

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    Brother Claude Ely 'Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely'

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    360-page hardback biography with CD, includes 290 sepia photographs CD features rare and electrifying audio recordings of Pentecostal worship services in the mountains of Kentucky and Virginia accompanied by a fiery sermon preached by Brother Claude Ely.
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  • George King

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    George King "Ten Thousand Points Of Light: 20th Anniversary Edition"

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    Kitsch alert! Worshippers at the shrine of Elvis and followers of pop culture take note. Ten Thousand Points of Light is a wry, understated and terrifically funny look at the Townsends, a suburban Atlanta family who, every holiday season for eight years, transformed their Stone Mountain area brick ranch house into a meteoric blaze of Christmas lights.

    Known as both the Christmas House and the the Elvis House, the Townsend's home was visited yearly by vast numbers of people, many of whom viewed a trip to the land of a thousand tchotchkes as an annual pilgrimage. '? Linda Dubler, Creative Loafing

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  • J.B. Smith 'No More Good Time in the World for Me' - Cargo Records UK

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    J.B. Smith 'No More Good Time in the World for Me'

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    Folklorist Bruce Jackson was among the last to record work songs. In 1964 he visited Ramsey State Farm in Rosharon, Texas, where he met Johnnie B. Smith, prisoner #130196. A native of Hearne, Texas, Smitty was 46 years old and on his fourth prison term. In his younger days, Smitty toted lead hoe in a flat-weeding gang and led the work songs.

    It's hard to overstate the importance of a good song leader in the penitentiary setting'one needed to be rhythmically, lyrically, and physically reliable, to maintain those songs over interminable hours of hard labor under an unforgiving south-central Texas sun. But J.B. also sang other songs, different songs'those he'd made up to occupy himself while chopping sugarcane or picking cotton. He referred to them as his 'little ol'songs.' The longest stretched to thirty-three verses, or more than twenty-two recorded minutes. Although Smitty knew and sang a variety of melodies, to an assortment of work songs and sacred pieces, he employed only one tune for his compositions.

    What changed were the tempo and the ornamentation with which he individualized them. 'The Major Special,' 'No More Good Time In The World For Me,' 'Ever Since I Been A Man Full Grown''each song Smith charged with its own emotional ambience, as a seasoned preacher intuits the particular colors and atmospheres that should imbue each portion of his service. Smith was paroled in 1967, a year - ¨after his final session with Jackson - ¨and the release, on John Fahey's - ¨Takoma Records, of an LP' Ever Since - ¨I Have Been A Man Full Grown 'of three of Smitty's songs.

    That summer, Bruce arranged for him to sing at the Newport Folk Festival, at which he appeared on stage with Pete Seeger, and, in one of the only photos that survive of him, in the company of Robert Pete Williams and Muddy Waters. A couple of years passed before Bruce heard from him again. He had returned to Amarillo, where he preached for a while; a parole violation then sent him back to prison.

    Tracklisting:
    Disc 1:

    1. No More Good Time in the World for Me
    2. Watching My Timber *
    3. Drop Em Down Together *
    4. I Got Too Much Time for the Crime I Done
    5. They Can't Do That (Toast) *
    6. I Heard the Reports of a Pistol *
    7. Drinking That Wine *
    8. Ever Since I Been a Man Full Grown

    Disc 2:
    1. Sure Make a Man Feel Bad *
    2. Tried By Fire *
    3. Woman Trouble *
    4. On Composition (Spoken) *
    5. The Major Special *
    6. No Payday Here *
    7. At the Cross *
    8. Poor Boy, Number Two *
    9. On Getting Out (Spoken)*
    10. Go Ahead *

    *Previously unreleased.
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  • Joe Bussard 'Desperate Man Blues;Discovering The Roots Of American Music (Soundtrack CD)' - Cargo Records UK

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    Joe Bussard 'Desperate Man Blues;Discovering The Roots Of American Music (Soundtrack CD)'

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    One DVD, 55 minute feature film, 40 minutes of bonus footage, 30 minute featurette on Joe's life, Audio commentary by Joe, Two Country Classics radio shows, 8 page booklet, Clear amaray case.

    Directed by Ed GillanDesperate Man Blues tells the story of self-proclaimed king of record collectors Joseph E. Bussard, Jr. of Frederick Maryland. Joe has amassed probably the greatest collection of 78 rpm recordings of country, blues, jazz, cajun and gospel music in the world. He has spent most of of his waking hours in pursuit of old 78s. To call it a hobby would be an insult: It's his life.

    Check out the DVD Desperate Man Blues. Joe's an eccentric record collector who's preserved all sorts of magical corners of music ' although he says things like 'There are no good jazz records made after 1927.' '? Elvis Costello

    It's nice to have a DVD of this great documentary on Joe Bussard, plus another featurette, King of All Record Collectors, and other bonus stuff. Bussard is a stone gas, grooving around his basement amidst one of the finest collections of pre-war 78s ever assembled. A few nice archival shots of Fahey, too. And the stories are hilarious.
    '? Byron Coley and Thurston Moore, #4 on their Top 80 of 2006

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  • Lonnie Holley 'Just Before Music' - Cargo Records UK

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    Lonnie Holley 'Just Before Music' CD

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    Fans of Sun Ra, take notice ' there is a new American original on the scene who hails from Birmingham, Alabama. Lonnie Holley's music is unlike anything we have ever heard, and we feel these recordings are a welcome addition to the continuum of music. This album marks the first time Dust-to-Digital has taken an artist into a recording studio. Lonnie Bradley Holley was born on February 10, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, the seventh of twenty-seven children.

    From the age of 5, Holley worked various jobs:  picking up trash at a drive-in movie theatre, washing dishes, and cooking. He lived in a whiskey house, on the state fairgrounds, and in several foster homes. His early life was chaotic and Holley was never afforded the pleasure of a real childhood. Since 1979, Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and sound.

    Holley's sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. Objects, already imbued with cultural and artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that commemorate places, people, and events.

    Holley did not start making and performing music in a studio nor does his creative process mirror that of the typical musician. His music and lyrics are improvised on the spot and morph and evolve with every event, concert, and recording. In Holley's original art environment, he would construct and deconstruct his visual works, repurposing their elements for new pieces. This often led to the transfer of individual narratives into the new work creating a cumulative composite image that has depth and purpose beyond its original singular meaning. The layers of sound in Holley's music, likewise, are the result of decades of evolving experimentation.

    Track listing: 
    1. Looking for All (All Rendered Truth)
    2. Here I Stand Knocking at Your Door
    3. Mama's Little Baby
    4. The End of the Film Era
    5. Fifth Child Burning
    6. Earthly Things
    7. Planet Earth and Otherwheres

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  • Lonnie Holley 'Keeping A Record Of It' - Cargo Records UK

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    Keeping a Record of It is the follow-up to Lonnie Holley's debut album, Just Before Music.

    Guest performers include Cole Alexander from the Black Lips, Bradford Cox from Deerhunter, and visual artist Lillian Blades.

    Lonnie Holley sings with an intense, emotional voice and unleashes lyrics without consistent meter or rhyme over gossamer keyboard lines that hang in the ether. His music is a blues nebula, splotched with riffy word jazz that shares in some rappers' collagist aesthetics as well as the runaway passion of a gospel preacher enlivened by the Spirit. ' Aquarium Drunkard

    Tracklisting:
    1. Six Space Shuttles and 144,000 Elephants
    2. The Start of a River's Run (One Drop)
    3. Mind On
    4. Sun & Water (featuring Lillian Blades)
    5. Making a Joyful Noise
    6. From the Other Side of the Pulpit (featuring Bradford Cox and Cole Alexander)
    7. Keeping a Record of It (featuring Bradford Cox and Cole Alexander)

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  • Rev Johnny L Jones 'Jesus Christ From A To Z' - Cargo Records UK

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    Rev Johnny L Jones 'Jesus Christ From A To Z'

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    More than a half-century ago, a young country preacher from backwoods Alabama came to the big city and made his name leading one of Atlanta's largest Baptist congregations. In a great Southern metropolis renowned for its preachers, Rev. Johnny L. Jones stood out for his unique delivery that combined solid theological grounding and moody, explosive flights into a high-turbulence zone between song and speech, earning him a reputation as the Fireball Preacher and more famously, The Hurricane. Jesus Christ from A to Z(PT-4001) was compiled from more than 50 years of reel-to-reel tapes of live church recordings.
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  • Stewart Copeland 'Let Your Feet Do The Talkin'â„¢: Documentary Film About Buckdancer Thomas Maupin' - Cargo Records UK

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    Stewart Copeland 'Let Your Feet Do The Talkin': Documentary Film About Buckdancer Thomas Maupin'

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    One DVD, 30 minute feature film, 60 minute dance lesson with Thomas Maupin, 4 page folder with an Introduction to Buckdancing essay, Cardboard case.

    Directed by Stewart Copeland, this 2010 documentary tells the story of 70-year-old buckdancing legend Thomas Maupin, who remains one of the greatest old-time dancers in America.

    Framed between Thomas' recovery from cancer and his acceptance of a nationally-recognized award, this piece presents a deeply personal look at a folk icon.

    As well as being a portrait of an artist, Let Your Feet Do The Talkin' asks the question, What drives us to perform? and examines art's ability to form and to strengthen relationships and to lift us above our circumstances.
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  • Various 'Bolinus Brandaris: Flamenco from the Bay of Cadiz' Hardback Book + CD

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    Various 'Bolinus Brandaris: Flamenco from the Bay of Cadiz' Hardback Book + CD

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    96-page hardcover book printed on artbook-quality paper with 46 photos, lyric transcriptions, cultural and regional histories, artist biographies, and a glossary. Hardcover book dimensions: 9.25" x 6.25" x .5" Weight: 14 oz. In 2015, New York-based producer David Aglow traveled to Spain searching for the roots of flamenco. At the time he set out on the recording project, a local newspaper wrote about Aglow's mission and referred to him as "an American in love with flamenco." It is his passion and drive to document the most authentic flamenco traditions of today that propels our new release "Bolinus Brandaris: Flamenco from the Bay of Cadiz.”Bolinus Brandaris takes the listener to the Bay of Cadiz, which is often referred to as cuna del cante (cradle of song). This southernmost part of mainland Spain is considered the birthplace and heartland of flamenco, where many song styles originated then radiated out through the rest of Andalusia. Expertly recorded with modern technology in informal and natural environments, this is flamenco culture as it is being lived today. Generally speaking, modern flamenco recordings have often missed the mark for two reasons: either they were live recordings in which the recorded sound was a by-product of a staged concert event, or they were studio recordings that leaned heavily on studio techniques to make the music sound contemporary (i.e. isolation booths, added effects, multi-tracking). Bolinus Brandaris gives flamenco's fundamental elements – voice and guitar – their overdue spotlight. By excluding the often-overemphasized component of flamenco dance, this release provides context which will enrich any flamenco experience.As an artist with whom we worked said: "A singer, a guitar player, and a bottle of wine on the table – that's flamenco." And that kind of intimacy and immediacy is what these recordings are –flamenco where it lives: in the bars, social clubs, restaurants and homes of the people who have lived it all their lives. The recording engineers and producers embedded in those environments and organized sessions that produced audiophile-quality recordings of the magic of flamenco, far removed from the pageantry of the stage and the sterility of the studio. Serve up some sherry, a bit of regional cheese, close your eyes and it is almost like you're there.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Trini de la Isla, Juani de la Isla, and Jesus Castilla – “Alegría”
    2. Ana Polanco and Victor Rosa – “Malagueña”
    3. Pedrín de la Isla and Victor Rosa – “Seguiriya”
    4. Trini de la Isla, Jesus Castilla, and Juani de la Isla – “Bulería”
    5. Jesus Guerrero – “Rondeña”
    6. Jesus Castilla and Juani de la Isla – “Soleá”
    7. El Niño del Parque – “Saeta”
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  • Various 'Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll (O.S.T.)' - Cargo Records UK

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    Various 'Don"t Think I"ve Forgotten: Cambodia"s Lost Rock and Roll (O.S.T.)'

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    40 years ago: April 17, 1975, Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge and Cambodian rock and roll was no more. Its star musicians were targeted and killed, record collections were destroyed, clubs were closed, and Western-style music-making, dancing, and clothes were outlawed.

    The deaths of approximately 2 million Cambodians and the horrors of the Killing Fields have been well-documented; add to this John Pirozzi's fascinating tale of Cambodia's vibrant pop music scene, beginning in the 1950s and 60s, influenced by France's Johnny Hallyday and Britain's Cliff Richard and the Shadows.

    The filmmaker has assembled rare archival footage, punctuating it with telling interviews with the few surviving musicians. Cambodian culture has long been synonymous with a love for the arts. DON'T THINK I'VE FORGOTTEN pays homage to the country's rock legends who paid for their creativity with their lives.

    Through the eyes, words and songs of its popular music stars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll examines and unravels Cambodia's recent tragic past. Dust-to-Digital is excited to release the soundtrack to such an important film. Compiled by the film's director, the album is very cinematic in nature.

    The sequencing and newly-remastered audio transport the listener through the rock and roll history of Cambodia in a similar fashion as John Pirozzi's documentary film. It is both entertaining and essential to hear so many tracks that are available outside of Cambodia for the very first time.

    Tracklisting:
    1. The Royal University of Fine Arts - Phnom Penh
    2. Sinn Sisamouth - Under the Sound of Rain
    3. Chhoun Malay - The Story of My Love
    4. Huoy Meas - Unique Child
    5. Baksey Cham Krong - B.C.K.
    6. Ros Serey Sothea - Don't Be Angry
    7. Sinn Sisamouth - Dance A Go Go
    8. Pen Ran - There's Nothing To Be Ashamed Of
    9. Baksey Cham Krong - Full Moon
    10. Sinn Sisamouth and Ros Serey Sothea - Thevary My Love
    11. Ros Serey Sothea - Heaven's Song
    12. Sinn Sisamouth - Navy A Go Go
    13. Sieng Vannthy - Console Me
    14. Yol Aularong & Va Sovy - Dying Under a Woman's Sword
    15. Drakkar - Crazy Loving You
    16. Pou Vannary - You've Got a Friend
    17. Yol Aularong - Cyclo
    18. Ros Serey Sothea - Old Pot Still Cooks Good Rice
    19. Sinn Sisamouth - Don't Think I've Forgotten
    20. Cheam Chansovannary - Oh! Phnom Penh

    Release Date: 17/11/2017
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  • Various 'Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History Of The World's Music (1907-1967)' 4CD Boxset

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    Various 'Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History Of The World's Music (1907-1967)' 4CD Boxset

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    100 recordings on 4 CDs.

    184-page hardcover book printed on artbook-quality paper ● Packaged in a deluxe gloss-laminated box.

    It begins with a South African choir from 1930 and a song about police brutality; it ends in Cuba with dreamy innuendo.

    This collection is about music that is often invisible in today’s world, the incredible world of global recordings that aren’t jazz, blues, country, rock ‘n roll, R&B, or “classical.”

    This physical edition of the box set, eight years in the making, contains 100 tracks and 100 stories in an extensive, illustrated 184-page book with detailed, contextual mini-histories about both musical origins and the beginnings of the industry, touching on the complexities of colonialism, economic agendas, and cultural tourism.

    With nearly all of the tracks never before reissued, this collection expands upon and acts as a companion to Jonathan Ward’s Excavated Shellac website, a unique repository of music, history, and data on 78 rpm recordings from around the world, rarely heard and seldom seen.

    Part 1
    1. Caluza's Double Quartet – Abaqafi (South Africa)
    2. Los Chinacos – Zacamandú (Mexico)
    3. Itokazu Kame – Hatoma-bushi (Okinawa, Japan)
    4. Cheikh Saïd Relizani - Denhar Mabrouk, Pt. 1 (Algeria)
    5. Enosse Kuhanya Muni – O Ta Nikona (Mozambique)
    6. Bonfiglio de Oliveira - Lembrancas do Passado (Brazil)
    7. Giovanni Vicari - Rose D'Italia (Italy)
    8. K. S. Narayana Ayyengar - Mokshamu Galadha, Pt 1 (Saramathi) (India)
    9. Hosseingholi Tatayy – Shur (Iran)
    10. Ne'matjon Qulabdullaev - Bilmasang Bilgil (Uzbekistan)
    11. Che Ta'seah - Lenggang Mak Inang (Malaysia)
    12. Demka dhe Hajro e Shoket – Këngë e Mahmudisë (Albania)
    13. Liam Walsh - Portlaw Reel (Ireland)
    14. Šule Radosavljevič-Šapčanin – Jeleno, Momo Jeleno (Serbia)
    15. Klaudiya Kotok and E.M. Shishova - Razvogor Dvuh Podrug (Russia)
    16. Fr. Dukli Wiejska Banda – Na Wykretke (Poland)
    17. Triki-Trixa de Zumarraga - Ez Dago Larrosarik (The Basque Country, Spain)
    18. Margarida, Cantadeira de Paredes – Caninha Verde (Portugal)
    19. Andrés Chazarreta y su Orquesta Tipica de Arte Nativo - La Doble (Argentina)
    20. Cuadro Gitano La Coja, featuring Concha Maya - Fandangos del Albaicín (Andalusia, Spain)
    21. Cuarteto Caraquita – Las Bellas Noches de Maiquetia (Venezuela)
    22. Sein Bo Tint - Aung Pa Khei Ti Loun (Burma)
    23. Park Booyong – Shin-Gosahn Taryong (Korea)
    24. Ali Muhammadi – Vitha (Sudan)
    25. Hanns in der Gand - Chant de Guerre Fribourgeois (Switzerland)

    Part 2
    1. Chimudon, Mashibato, and Togus Ziguradan - The Venerable Genghis Khan (Mongolia)
    2. Muhammad Rashid al-Rifa’i - Ya Ghusain Alban, Pt 1 (Bahrain)
    3. Negatoua - Ya Bati Zefen (Ethiopia)
    4. Picoğlu Osman - Sıksara Horon Havası (Turkey)
    5. Miyagi Michio, Yoshida Kyoko, Miyagi Kiyoko - Sakura Variations, Pt 2 (Japan)
    6. Paulos Dikito - Hendeyi Kumunda (Zimbabwe)
    7. Saez y Hermanos Ascuez – Pregonero (Peru)
    8. Grupo Istmeño - Coge el Pandero Que Se Te Va (Panama)
    9. Orchestre Franco-Creole – Prend Yo (Haiti)
    10. Khaledi and Zahedi – Bayāt-e Tork, Pt. 2 (Iran)
    11. Mita Stoyecheva - Da Znaya Mamo, Da Znaya (Bulgaria)
    12. Myskal Omurkanova - Oilo Sen (Kyrgyzstan)
    13. Miss Thông - Chinh Phụ Ngâm, Pt 1 (Vietnam)
    14. Vassyl Yemetz - Z Ukrainskyce Stepiw (Ukraine)
    15. Abaimbi be Kanisa Lutiko eye Namirembe - Oje Omwoyo Omutukuvu (Uganda)
    16. Nicholas De Heer – Osibonibom (Ghana)
    17. Tamarii-Tahiti - Haere Roa Roa (Tahiti)
    18. Count Lasher – Perseverance (Jamaica)
    19. Paykān - Khayāl Dilbar (Afghanistan)
    20. Zohra El Fassia – Erraad, Pt 2 (Morocco)
    21. Gavino de Lunas – Cantu Pastorale (Sardinia)
    22. Coro de Ruada - Foliada de Orense (Galicia, Spain)
    23. Crimean Tatar Orchestra – Taksim ve Peshraf (Crimea)
    24. Júlio Silva - Fado Melancólico (Portugal)
    25. Salim Abdullah – Kwaherini (Tanzania)

    Part 3
    1. Adja Mint Aali – El Khar (Mauritania)
    2. Siddiq and Party – Sun Kay Gal Nawab Nai (Punjab)
    3. Khan Shushinski – Qarabağ Şikəstəsi (Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan)
    4. J. Joseph and Mary – Safarini (Kenya)
    5. Ewert Åhs - Evertsbergs Gamla Brudmarsch (Sweden)
    6. Orchestre Créole Delvi - Du Feu Prix en Tête Man Nordé (Martinique)
    7. Trio Medellín – La Morena (Veracruz, Mexico)
    8. Pasquale Taraffo – Sonatina in A Major (Italy)
    9. Cayla and Demay – Lo Mourolliado (Auvergne, France)
    10. Dachauer Bauernkapelle “Strassmaier” - Niederbayrischer Halbwalzer (Germany)
    11. A. Megrelidze and the Georgian Radio Folk Song Ensemble - Rostom Chabuki (Georgia)
    12. Tiwonoh and Sandikola - Tilondo le Phepo (Malawi)
    13. Sears Orchestra – Bela Aurora (Azores, Portugal)
    14. Pov Siv Nou and Pov Van Chorn– Sompong Klay (Cambodia)
    15. Toba Batak ensemble – Riak-Riak (Sumatra, Indonesia)
    16. Emmanuele Cilia - Iz-Zakkiek (Malta)
    17. Mayfair Band – Gathering Peascods (England)
    18. Wei Zhongyue - Shimian Maifu, Pt. 1 (China)
    19. Subeit bin Ambar - Taksim Hijazi (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
    20. Koni Coumaré – Dabatako (Mali)
    21. Yusuf Taj – Yahya Al-Zaman Illi Jama’na (Lebanon)
    22. Monks of the Maru Monastery at Lhasa - Tse-Chu Cho-Pa (The Offering on the Tenth) (Tibet, China)
    23. Francis Salomon – Dans la Ville Mahebourg (Mauritius)
    24. Philip Tanner – The Gower Reel (Wales, United Kingdom)
    25. Hernández Brothers – Sérénade (Sing, Smile, Slumber) (Columbia)

    Part 4
    1. Sigbjørn B. Osa – Bjølleslåtten (Norway)
    2. Durban Lions – Maheshe (South Africa)
    3. Tunde King – Arthur Prest (Nigeria)
    4. El Haja Rouïda - Mallaly, Pt 1 (Morocco)
    5. Margareta Radulescu - Mamă! Tata Când Mai Vine (Romania)
    6. Tom Clough – The Keel Row (Northumberland, United Kingdom)
    7. Superba Molassana – A Partenza da Parigi (Genoa, Italy)
    8. Valentin Eugenio – Piritipit (Philippines)
    9. San Salvador – Narciso Ku Matadi (Congo)
    10. Rakotondrasoa and Manjakaray - Rakoto O! (Madagascar)
    11. Elenkrig’s Orchestra – Lebedeg (New York, United States)
    12. Ahmet Hulûsi Bey – Hacı Yârim (Turkey)
    13. Setrak Sourabian and George Shah-Baronian – Hay Aghchig (Armenia)
    14. Miss Phuaphan and Miss Pleng with the Organ-Phinphat Ensemble of Bang Khun Phrom Palace - Lakhon Rong Rueang Phali Yat Lohit, Pt 12 (Thailand)
    15. Angus Chisholm - Mr Murray; The £10 Fiddle; The Baker (Cape Breton, Canada)
    16. Kolompár Peti Cigánybandája – Borozó Csárdás Egyveleg (Hungary)
    17. Atan and Sak Ena – Dondang Sayang Singapora, Pt 4 (Singapore/Malaysia)
    18. Al Hadj Taha Abu Mandour – Al Sama’i al-Thaqil (Egypt)
    19. Gonxhe Manakovska – More Musa (North Macedonia)
    20. Saramacca Band – Moengo Boto Blon (Suriname)
    21. Kawîs Axa – Bîlmez, Pt. 1 (Iraq)
    22. Garifulla Kurmangaliyev – Asylzhan (Kazakhstan)
    23. Ishmulla Dilmukhametov – Hyr (Bashkortostan, Russia)
    24. Abrew’s Portuguese Instrumental Trio – Valsa Continental (Cape Verde)
    25. Sexteto Habanero – Son las dos…China (Cuba)
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  • Various 'Parchman Farm: Photographs and Field Recordings: 1947ââ'š¬â‚¬œ1959' - Cargo Records UK

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    Various 'Parchman Farm: Photographs and Field Recordings: 1947ââ'š¬â‚¬œ1959'

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    In 1947, '48 and '59, renowned folklorist Alan Lomax went behind the barbed wire into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck'and, in 1959, a camera'Lomax documented as best an outsider could the stark and savage conditions of the prison farm, where the black inmates labored 'from can't to can't,' chopping timber, clearing ground, and picking cotton for the state. They sang as they worked, keeping time with axes or hoes, adapting to their condition the slavery-time hollers that sustained their forbears and creating a new body of American song. Theirs was music, as Lomax wrote, that 'testified to the love of truth and beauty which is a universal human trait.'

    124-page hardcover book with 2 CDs/6.25 inches x 9.5 inches (landscape)/Includes slipcase and foil stamping/44 audio recordings, 12 previously unreleased, all newly remastered;/77 photographs, many published here for the first time;Essays by Alan Lomax, Anna Lomax Wood, and Bruce Jackson.Produced by Lance Ledbetter, founder of Dust-to-Digital, and Nathan Salsburg, curator of the Alan Lomax Archive. 'A few strands of wire were all that separated the prison from adjoining plantations. Only the sight of an occasional armed guard or a barred window in one of the frame dormitories made one realize that this was a prison. The land produced the same crop; there was the same work for blacks to do on both sides of the fence. And there was no Delta black who was not aware of how easy it was for him to find himself on the wrong side of those few strands of barbed wire - ¦. These songs are a vivid reminder of a system of social control and forced labor that has endured in the South for centuries, and I do not believe that the pattern of Southern life can be fundamentally reshaped until what lies behind these roaring, ironic choruses is understood.' ' Alan Lomax, 1958.'Black prisoners in all the Southern agricultural prisons in the years of these recordings participated in two distinct musical traditions: free world (the blues, hollers, spirituals and other songs they sang outside and, when the situation permitted, sang inside as well) and the work-songs, which were specific to the prison situation, and the recordings in this album represent that complete range of material, which is one of the reasons this set is so important: it doesn't just show this or that tradition within Parchman, but the range of musical traditions performed by black prisoners. I know of no other album that does that.' ' Bruce Jackson, 2013.

    DISC 1: 1947-'48 Work Songs and Hollers
    1. Jimpson and Group - 'Murderer's Home'
    2. 88 and Group - 'Rosie' *
    3. 22 and Group - 'It Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad'
    4. 88 - 'Whoa Buck'
    5. Tangle Eye, Hard Hat, 22, and Little Red - 'When I Went to Leland'
    6. Buzzard and group - 'I'm Going to Memphis'
    7. 22 and Group - 'The Prettiest Train I Ever Saw'
    8. 22 and Group - 'John Henry'
    9. Dan Barnes and Group - 'John Old Alabama'
    10. Foots - 'Hollers'
    11. Dobie Red and Group - 'Stewball'
    12. Bama - 'Levee Camp Hollers'
    13. Tangle Eye, Hard Hat, 22 and Little Red - 'Early In the Morning'
    14. Dobie Red and Group ' 'I Got A Bulldog (Well I Wonder)'
    15. 22 and Group - 'Dollar Mamie'
    16. Bama - 'Stackalee'
    17. Dan Barnes and group - 'I Don't Want No Jet Black Woman' *
    18. Bull, Foots and Dobie Red - 'Did You Hear About Louella Wallace'
    19. Tangle Eye - 'Tangle Eye's Blues'
    20. 22 and Group - 'Rosie'
    21. Bama - 'I'm Going Home'
    22. Jimpson and Group - 'No More My Lord'
    23. Unidentified Group - 'The Weather Get Warm' *

    Disc 2: 1947-'48 Blues / 1959 Work Songs and Hollers
    1. Floyd Batts - 'Lucky Song'
    2. Clarence Alexander - 'Disability Boogie Woogie'
    3. John Edwards and Group - 'Berta' *
    4. Clyde Jones and Group - 'Poor Lazarus' *
    5. John Dudley - 'Cool Drink of Water Blues'
    6. Ed Lewis - 'Levee Camp Holler / Interview'
    7. Ed Lewis and Group - 'Black Gal'
    8. Bama - 'I Don't Want You Baby' *
    9. Grover Wells and Group - 'Rosie' *
    10. Bridges Lee Cole - 'Hollers'
    11. John Dudley - 'You Got a Mean Disposition'
    12. John Dudley - 'Big Road Blues'
    13. Ervin Webb and Group - 'I'm Going Home'
    14. George Golden and Group - 'Berta' *
    15. Grover Wells - 'Up the River' *
    16. Clarence Alexander - 'Prison Blues'
    17. Johnny Lee Moore, Ed Lewis, James Carter, and Henry Mason - 'Tom Devil'
    18. Willie Washington - 'My Jack Don't Drink No Water' *
    19. Leroy Campbell and Yancey - 'Sometimes I Wonder'
    20. Henry Ratcliff - 'Look for Me In Louisiana'
    21. Heuston Earms - 'Ain't Been Able to Get Home No More' *

    *Previously unreleased.
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  • Various Artists 'Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers' - Cargo Records UK

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    Various Artists 'Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers'

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    For the traveling recording men of the late 1920s, Arkansas offered enticing pickings. The region was thronged with vigorous, idiosyncratic stringbands. This album carries the listener from the hillbilly music craze of the '20s to the song-based country music of the late '30s. Scarcely more than a decade, but a period, in music as in all American life, of galvanic change.

    This CD serves as the soundtrack album to the newly-released photograph book, 'Making Pictures: Three for a Dime' by Maxine Payne. All of the photos in this package are from the same cache of photographs taken by the Massengil family in their mobile photo-booth trailer throughout rural Arkansas in the 1930s-1940s. CD Digipak with 32 page booklet/Liner notes by country music scholar Tony Russell/Newly remastered 24-bit audio transfers from the Music Memory archive/Features original 78 RPM recordings made between 1928-1937 'It is indeed gratifying to know our program has made so many minds and hearts drift back to the earlier days when all was well, when the hoss hair pullers'of old were in due form and all parties concerned were in a receptive mood for tipping of the fantastic toe - ¦ My aggregation from this district claim that their music and songs are not suggestive of anything except good and wholesome exercise - ¦

    So everybody come to the Arkansas Ozarks, where you can eat the best fruit in the world; where home-cured meat is found in the smokehouse and corn and hay in the barn; where you can juice your own cow, feed your own chickens, fish in the wonderful White River, meet these men of the Missouri Pacific and natives, and you will then say, Yes, indeed, you have the most wonderful country in the world.'' ' Henry Harlin Smith, March 1926 on Hot Springs radio station KTHS.

    1. Ashley's Melody Men - 'Searcy County Rag'
    2. Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers - 'Get Along Home, Miss Cindy'
    3. Fiddling Bob Larkin & His Music Makers - 'The Higher up the Monkey Climbs'
    4. George Edgin's Corn Dodgers With Earl Wright & Brown Rich - 'My Ozark Mountain Home"
    5. Dr. Smith's Champion Hoss Hair Pullers - 'Just Give Me the Leavings"
    6. Ashley's Melody Men - 'Bath House Blues'
    7. Luke Highnight & His Ozark Strutters - 'Fort Smith Breakdown"
    8. Arkansas Barefoot Boys - 'Eighth of January'
    9. Bob Larkan & Family - 'McLeods Reel"
    10. A. E. Ward & His Plow Boys - 'The Old Dinner Pail"
    11. Wonder State Harmonists - 'My Castle on the Nile'
    12. Morrison Twin Brothers String Band - 'Dry and Dusty'
    13. Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers - 'Jaw Bone"
    14. Lonnie Glosson - 'Arkansas Hard Luck Blues"
    15. Fiddling Bob Larkin & His Music Makers - 'Paddy, Won't You Drink Some Good Old Cider?'
    16. George Edgin's Corn Dodgers With Earl Wright & Brown Rich - 'Corn Dodger No. 1 Special"
    17. Bonnie Dodd & Murray Lucas - 'Ozark Mountain Rose"
    18. Morrison Twin Brothers String Band - 'Ozark Waltz'
    19. L. O. Birkhead & R. M. Lane - 'Robinson County"
    20. George Edgin's Corn Dodgers With Earl Wright & Brown Rich - 'The Arkansas Hotel"
    21. A. E. Ward & His Plow Boys - 'Going to Leave Old Arkansas"
    22. Wonder State Harmonists - 'Petit Jean Gallop'
    23. Bob Larkan & Family - 'Silver Nail"
    24. Reaves White Country Ramblers - 'Drunkard's Hecups'
    25. Wonder State Harmonists - 'Turnip Greens'
    26. Lonnie Glosson - 'Lonnie's Fox Chase"
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  • Various Artists 'Art Of Field Recording Vol II: Traditional Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum' - Cargo Records UK

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    Various Artists 'Art Of Field Recording Vol II: Traditional Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum'

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    Contents and Packaging (Four Disc Box Set with a 96 Page Book).

    Compiled by Lance Ledbetter and Art Rosenbaum,Art of Field Recording Volume II is a four disc set with a 96 page book that contains essays and annotations by Art and over 100 illustrations and photographs by Art and his wife Margo. Art took a similar approach to Harry Smith in assembling the music: the discs are divided into Accompanied Songs and Ballads, Unaccompanied Songs and Ballads, Sacred, and a Survey disc that has a little bit of everything.

     

    Blog Critics: Art Of Field Recording Volume ll is an amazing collection of music and people that can't help but make you feel better about the world. There are fewer and fewer people today who play music because of what the song means to them in terms of their family's history or the people who taught it to them. To have the opportunity to experience listening to that type of music is a rare treat and one that might not be available to us for that much longer..

    Pitchfork: ¦Rosenbaum's work will make you yearn for childhood lullabies, for'? precious as it sounds'? the songs that you keep in your heart.

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  • Various Artists 'Greek Rhapsody '“ Instrumental Music From Greece 1905-1956' - Cargo Records UK

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    Various Artists 'Greek Rhapsody €' Instrumental Music From Greece 1905-1956'

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    DISC 1:
    1. G. Gretsis & S. Stamos ' Greek Rhapsody
    2. George Deligeorge ' Lemneiko-Zeibekiko
    3. Instrumental Trio ' Vlachico Sirto
    4. Spyros Peristeris ' To Mistirio
    5. Markos Vamvakaris ' Taxim Serf
    6. Solo Laterna ' Kazapiko
    7. Spyros Peristeris ' Tatavliano Hasapiko
    8. A. Kostis ' Dertlidikos Horos
    9. Spyros Peristeris ' Soultani Zeibekiko
    10. Spyros Peristeris ' Guzel-Zeibekiko
    11. Spyros Peristeris ' Hasapiko Laternas
    12. Andonis Amiralis Papatzis ' Hasapiko Politiko Argo
    13. Spyros Peristeris ' O Meraklis
    14. M. Hiotis-D. Gongos ''Bagianderas'' ' To Perasma
    15. Kyria Koula ' Zeibekikos Horos
    16. Spyros Peristeris ' Taxim Minore
    17. Frangiskos Zouridakis ' Syriano Hasapiko
    18. Ierotheos Skizas Mandolinata ' Karotsieris Hasapiko
    19. Spyros Peristeris ' Pireotiko Taximi
    20. Spyros Peristeris ' Romvia (Tatavliano Hasapiko)
    21. Giannis Stamatiou & P. Vasileiou ' Glykies Pennies

    Disc 2:
    1. Spyros Peristeris ' Beykos Hasapiko
    2. Spyros Peristeris ' Keflflidiko Minore
    3. Spyros Peristeris ' Boutzalio
    4. Ag. Tombouli ' Raftaki
    5. Havagies Bezou-Stipa ' Kardia Ap'agapi Orfani
    6. Solo Laterna ' Zeibekiko
    7. Apostolos Papadiamandis & Konstandinos Kalamaras ' I Hira
    8. Spyros Peristeris ' Sevdali
    9. Diodia Kyriakati ' Karsilamas Mytilineikos
    10. Spyros Peristeris ' Dertilidiko
    11. Lambros Leondaridis ' Karsilamas
    12. Ioannis Papaioannou ' Serviko Hasapiko
    13. Spyros Peristeris ' Minore Tou Teke
    14. Ierotheos Skizas Mandolinata ' Vlahiko Hasapiko
    15. Markos Vamvakaris ' Taxim Zeibekiko
    16. D. Arapakis ' Memetis
    17. Manolis Hiotis ' Giouzel Taxim
    18. Alexis Zoumbas ' Arvanitiko
    19. Lukianos Cavadias ' Hasapiko Kavvadia
    20. Spyros Peristeris ' Mistirio Zeibekiko
    21. Ioannis Halikias ' Minore Tou Teke

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  • Various Artists 'I Have My Liberty! Gospel Sounds From Accra, Ghana' - Cargo Records UK

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    Various Artists 'I Have My Liberty! Gospel Sounds From Accra, Ghana'

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    Produced by Calpin Hoffman-Williamson, I Have My Liberty! Gospel Sounds from Accra, Ghana features performances recorded live in 2008 in the churches of Ghana's capital city.

    This album could be seen as the missing link between American gospel records by artists like Rev. Johnny L. Jones and traditional African artists like those featured on Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM.
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  • Various Artists 'Kassidat: Raw 45s From Morocco' - Cargo Records UK

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    Side A:
    1. Mohamed Bergam ' Zine Mlih (Sublime Beauty)
    2. Rais Haj Omar Wahrouch ' Aksaid Wili Moudanine (Ask Our Brothers the Immigrants)
    3. Abdellah el Magana ' Kassidat el Hakka (The Poem Of The Truth)
     
    Side B:
    1. Jmimi, Lekbir and Fatma Anounya ' Makh-Makh (Why, Why?)
    2. Bennasser Oukhouya and Cheikha Hadda Ouakki ' Ha Howa Ha Howa (That's Him)
    3. Cheikh Mohamed Riffi ' Sidi M'Bark (Mr. M'bark)

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