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Assembled by Harry Smith and released by Folkways Records in 1952, this six-LP collection brings together 84 recordings made between 1927 and 1932. Its three divisions, Ballads, Social Music, and Songs, organize rural American music by narrative and function rather than by a simple division between...
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Foundational archival landmark with immense cultural influence, scholarship, and near-universal critical reverence.
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Lightnin' Hopkins is a 1959 album by the renowned Texas acoustic blues guitarist and singer Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins. The recordings were produced by folklorist Samuel Charters, who sought to capture Hopkins' traditional country blues style in a raw, stripped-down setting. Released during the mid-cen...
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