#folkways — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #folkways, aggregated by home.social.
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Paul Clayton - "Dulcimer Songs and Solos" (1962)
If you see a dulcimer record, just get it.
#NowPlaying #FolkwaysRecords #Folkways #dulcimer #PaulClayton #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords
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Lucinda Williams, Ramblin’ On My Mind, 1979 on Folkways
Attributed to “Lucinda” mono-nymically, this was Williams’ debut solo album, released in 1979 on Folkways (which became Smithsonian Folkways in 1987).
She’s accompanied by John Grimaudo on 6-string guitar (she plays 12-string and sings), and the album was produced by Tom Royals, an attorney for whom this is the only producing credit – he was a friend of her father. It was recorded at Malaco Studios in Jackson, Mississippi.
It’s a collection of blues, folk, and country covers, some traditional and some by named artists: Robert Johnson, A.P. Carter, Memphis Minnie, Sleepy John Estes, Hammie Nixon, Hank Williams, Roy Acuff, Joe Hayes and Jack Rhodes.
My copy is a 2021 reissue, but I’m not sure where I got it from.
#1970s #1979 #APCarter #Blues #Country #covers #Folk #Folkways #HankWilliams #JohnGrumaudo #LucindaWilliams #MalacoStudios #RobertJohnson #SmithsonianFolkways #TomRoyals #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
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The Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music: Northern and Central Italy (1957)
#NowPlaying #AlanLomax #Folkways #Italy #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords
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Songs and Ballads of Newfoundland Sung by Ken Peacock (1956)
#NowPlaying #Folkways #Newfoundland #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords
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@colorblindcowboy @thereisnocat
Pretty sure Woody’s recordings are mostly over on Smithsonian/Folkways,(for now)Some at the Library of Congress issued by Electra/Rounder in the 90s and are streaming but the extensive notes are missing 😤
#Folkways keeps the old Arhoolie Records albums available — including tons of #zydeco #conjunto & #cajun #accordion because unlike the rest of the US folk revival, Austrian-born Chris Strachwitz was not afraid of the squeezebox
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@colorblindcowboy @thereisnocat
Pretty sure Woody’s recordings are mostly over on Smithsonian/Folkways,(for now)Some at the Library of Congress issued by Electra/Rounder in the 90s and are streaming but the extensive notes are missing 😤
#Folkways keeps the old Arhoolie Records albums available — including tons of #zydeco #conjunto & #cajun #accordion because unlike the rest of the US folk revival, Austrian-born Chris Strachwitz was not afraid of the squeezebox
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@colorblindcowboy @thereisnocat
Pretty sure Woody’s recordings are mostly over on Smithsonian/Folkways,(for now)Some at the Library of Congress issued by Electra/Rounder in the 90s and are streaming but the extensive notes are missing 😤
#Folkways keeps the old Arhoolie Records albums available — including tons of #zydeco #conjunto & #cajun #accordion because unlike the rest of the US folk revival, Austrian-born Chris Strachwitz was not afraid of the squeezebox
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Double exposure of today’s spin — The Watson Family originally released 1963 #NowListening #folk #Vinyl #Smithsonian #Folkways #DocWatson
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https://youtu.be/V4IZKm88PGE?si=mYBwivfjmfMd9rcO
Let us wave a flag for the Late Great #HarveyMilk.. Thus album is fantastic, music for the youth but not necessarily only for younger ears. #MrGregandCassMcCombs on #Folkways..https://folkways.si.edu/mr-greg-and-cass-mccombs/sing-and-play-new-folk-songs-for-children
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Oh man, Smithsonian’s Folkways label and American History Museum are releasing Robert ‘Mack’ McCormick’s tapes, research and writings as part of Folkways’ 75th anniversary! The Monster unleashed!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2023/10/14/smithsonian-folkways-robert-mccormick/
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So yesterday I shared the news about the Friends of #Folkways effort -- $5 a month, you can stream everything in their catalog and affiliated labels, https://folkways.si.edu/friends-of-folkways for more -- and today I'm currently tripping out on this amazingly earnest 1958 release about the sounds of the early satellites. This cover art is pure @quartzcity among others. #music https://folkways.si.edu/voices-of-the-satellites/sounds/album/smithsonianth
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Some actually happy news after all this week -- #Smithsonian #Folkways has announced a new #FriendsofFolkways program. $5 a month gets you access to their entire streaming catalog plus sublabels, at least for US listeners. More here at the link! #music https://folkways.si.edu/friends-of-folkways
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@colorblindcowboy
That’s wonderful!They’ve had their liner notes available as PDF downloads for years
But this is a new development that’s quite exciting
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It's the second #MusicWomenWednesday and I've been looking forward to this since last week!
Gonna go back a little ways in time this week to some of the greats that helped shaped American music
Let's start this off right, with Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Didn't it Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE
Mattie May Thomas: No Mo Freedom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZsBm2KYD8o
And last, Ola Belle Reed: High on a Mountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfpQt78NFC0
#Blues #Bluegrass #Folk #RockandRoll #MusicHistory #MountainSongs #FolkWays
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Hey! Come to the Hirshorn Museum (Independence Ave SW & 7th St SW in DC) on September 9th for a FREE 3-hour concert in octophonic sound. #Matmos will be manipulating and transforming the back catalog of field recordings, nature, and scientific LPs from #Folkways in 8 channels of surround sound! Expect 🐸 frogs,🐝 wasps, stomach growls, and more! https://hirshhorn.si.edu/event/matmos-plays-the-sounds-of-folkways-records/
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#NowPlaying #Folkways ❝In the 1950s and 60s, the blues was the dominant form of Black vernacular music throughout Texas and the surrounding areas. Robert “Mack” McCormick, an academically untrained but fanatical devotee, stepped into this world and became one of its most devout advocates and documentarians. This is the first compilation of music drawn from his fabled collection.❞ https://smithsonianfolkways.bandcamp.com/album/playing-for-the-man-at-the-door-field-recordings-from-the-collection-of-mack-mccormick-1958-1971
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Elizabeth Cotten - "When I'm Gone" (1979)
#NowPlaying #ElizabethCotten #Folkways #folkmusic #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords
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Elizabeth Cotten - "When I'm Gone" (1979)
#NowPlaying #ElizabethCotten #Folkways #folkmusic #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords
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Elizabeth Cotten - "When I'm Gone" (1979)
#NowPlaying #ElizabethCotten #Folkways #folkmusic #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords
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Elizabeth Cotten - "When I'm Gone" (1979)
#NowPlaying #ElizabethCotten #Folkways #folkmusic #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords
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#NowPlaying Here’s a sampling of the music released on #Folkways that has defined and redefined the fabric of American music since 1948. https://bndcmpr.co/f15f6c1a
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#NowPlaying #Podcast ❝I decided that I would become like an encyclopedia. You don’t eliminate “A” because nobody buys “A” … [I see #Folkways] not as a business, but as a documentation, as a depository. I don’t think many people could operate the thing as a business without saying why carry on such a thing where you might lose $200-$300 a year? It’s a problem. I haven’t got the answer.❞ H/T @AqiDraco https://www.si.edu/sidedoor/recording-world
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Craig Kupka - "Crystals" (1982)
#NowPlaying #CraigKupka #Mastodrone #Folkways #DroneMusic #trombonedrone #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords
High quality trombone drone, this.
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#ChrisStrachwitz was rare among American folk revivalists for appreciating the #Accordion before it had it's first "revival" in the 1980s (led by artists he helped bring to attention)
He laughed telling me how much #AlanLomax hated accordions (Mentioned in my #AccordionRevolution 🪗📚🤓)
Thanks to clearer ears like Chris’s, we have reissues like these of #CliftonChenier
https://folkways.si.edu/clifton-chenier/louisiana-blues-and-zydeco/2005-edition ❤️🔥🪗
#Folkways #Zydeco #Louisiana #BlackMusic #Creole @Pipistrelle -
Pancakes have been made and consumed, although I'm one of those people who does Pancake Day without doing Lent, because I'm non-religious but I just like sweet food. Although I do like the folk tradition too!
A record of Northumbrian folkways collected in the 1920s claims that pancakes are eaten here on Shrove Tuesday, "and always have been", a bold claim that I love for what it says about folk memory.
Other customs for the day included the ringing of the "Pancake Bell"(otherwise known as the Shriving Bell), a holiday for apprentices, and the playing of football matches - one of which is still famously played on the Pastures at Alnwick on Shrove Tuesday.
#Folklore #Folkways #PancakeDay #ShroveTuesday #Northumberland #FolkHistory @folklore
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Pancakes have been made and consumed, although I'm one of those people who does Pancake Day without doing Lent, because I'm non-religious but I just like sweet food. Although I do like the folk tradition too!
A record of Northumbrian folkways collected in the 1920s claims that pancakes are eaten here on Shrove Tuesday, "and always have been", a bold claim that I love for what it says about folk memory.
Other customs for the day included the ringing of the "Pancake Bell"(otherwise known as the Shriving Bell), a holiday for apprentices, and the playing of football matches - one of which is still famously played on the Pastures at Alnwick on Shrove Tuesday.
#Folklore #Folkways #PancakeDay #ShroveTuesday #Northumberland #FolkHistory @folklore
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Pancakes have been made and consumed, although I'm one of those people who does Pancake Day without doing Lent, because I'm non-religious but I just like sweet food. Although I do like the folk tradition too!
A record of Northumbrian folkways collected in the 1920s claims that pancakes are eaten here on Shrove Tuesday, "and always have been", a bold claim that I love for what it says about folk memory.
Other customs for the day included the ringing of the "Pancake Bell"(otherwise known as the Shriving Bell), a holiday for apprentices, and the playing of football matches - one of which is still famously played on the Pastures at Alnwick on Shrove Tuesday.
#Folklore #Folkways #PancakeDay #ShroveTuesday #Northumberland #FolkHistory @folklore
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Pancakes have been made and consumed, although I'm one of those people who does Pancake Day without doing Lent, because I'm non-religious but I just like sweet food. Although I do like the folk tradition too!
A record of Northumbrian folkways collected in the 1920s claims that pancakes are eaten here on Shrove Tuesday, "and always have been", a bold claim that I love for what it says about folk memory.
Other customs for the day included the ringing of the "Pancake Bell"(otherwise known as the Shriving Bell), a holiday for apprentices, and the playing of football matches - one of which is still famously played on the Pastures at Alnwick on Shrove Tuesday.
#Folklore #Folkways #PancakeDay #ShroveTuesday #Northumberland #FolkHistory @folklore
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Pancakes have been made and consumed, although I'm one of those people who does Pancake Day without doing Lent, because I'm non-religious but I just like sweet food. Although I do like the folk tradition too!
A record of Northumbrian folkways collected in the 1920s claims that pancakes are eaten here on Shrove Tuesday, "and always have been", a bold claim that I love for what it says about folk memory.
Other customs for the day included the ringing of the "Pancake Bell"(otherwise known as the Shriving Bell), a holiday for apprentices, and the playing of football matches - one of which is still famously played on the Pastures at Alnwick on Shrove Tuesday.
#Folklore #Folkways #PancakeDay #ShroveTuesday #Northumberland #FolkHistory @folklore
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Imbolc. St Brigid's Day. 1st of February.
Imbolc is recorded in early medieval Irish sources and was also historically celebrated in Scotland and the Isle of Man. It's generally believed that the origin is older, pre-Christian, and the date is important to many modern pagans as the start of spring. It's also the feast day of St Brigid, mother saint of Ireland, and traditions included the weaving of Brigid's Crosses from rushes. Many believe that Brigid is a Christianised version of a pre-Christian goddess, although she is also recorded as a real historic figure who founded the Abbey of Kildare. It may be that two figures have been conflated.
Imbolc is not recorded as ever being celebrated here in Northumberland, but the reasons for celebrating it as an agricultural festival would have been just as important here. The season for sowing, the start of the lambing, the return of the light, and the promise of warmer, less lean days to come.
#Imbolc #SaintBrigid #StBrigidsDay #folklore #folkways #FolkHistory #SaintsDays #history #spring #February #Pagan #RuralLife #OldWays #sunshine #nature #wildflowers #northumberland #aconites #snowdrops #landscape #landscapephotography
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Imbolc. St Brigid's Day. 1st of February.
Imbolc is recorded in early medieval Irish sources and was also historically celebrated in Scotland and the Isle of Man. It's generally believed that the origin is older, pre-Christian, and the date is important to many modern pagans as the start of spring. It's also the feast day of St Brigid, mother saint of Ireland, and traditions included the weaving of Brigid's Crosses from rushes. Many believe that Brigid is a Christianised version of a pre-Christian goddess, although she is also recorded as a real historic figure who founded the Abbey of Kildare. It may be that two figures have been conflated.
Imbolc is not recorded as ever being celebrated here in Northumberland, but the reasons for celebrating it as an agricultural festival would have been just as important here. The season for sowing, the start of the lambing, the return of the light, and the promise of warmer, less lean days to come.
#Imbolc #SaintBrigid #StBrigidsDay #folklore #folkways #FolkHistory #SaintsDays #history #spring #February #Pagan #RuralLife #OldWays #sunshine #nature #wildflowers #northumberland #aconites #snowdrops #landscape #landscapephotography
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Imbolc. St Brigid's Day. 1st of February.
Imbolc is recorded in early medieval Irish sources and was also historically celebrated in Scotland and the Isle of Man. It's generally believed that the origin is older, pre-Christian, and the date is important to many modern pagans as the start of spring. It's also the feast day of St Brigid, mother saint of Ireland, and traditions included the weaving of Brigid's Crosses from rushes. Many believe that Brigid is a Christianised version of a pre-Christian goddess, although she is also recorded as a real historic figure who founded the Abbey of Kildare. It may be that two figures have been conflated.
Imbolc is not recorded as ever being celebrated here in Northumberland, but the reasons for celebrating it as an agricultural festival would have been just as important here. The season for sowing, the start of the lambing, the return of the light, and the promise of warmer, less lean days to come.
#Imbolc #SaintBrigid #StBrigidsDay #folklore #folkways #FolkHistory #SaintsDays #history #spring #February #Pagan #RuralLife #OldWays #sunshine #nature #wildflowers #northumberland #aconites #snowdrops #landscape #landscapephotography
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Imbolc. St Brigid's Day. 1st of February.
Imbolc is recorded in early medieval Irish sources and was also historically celebrated in Scotland and the Isle of Man. It's generally believed that the origin is older, pre-Christian, and the date is important to many modern pagans as the start of spring. It's also the feast day of St Brigid, mother saint of Ireland, and traditions included the weaving of Brigid's Crosses from rushes. Many believe that Brigid is a Christianised version of a pre-Christian goddess, although she is also recorded as a real historic figure who founded the Abbey of Kildare. It may be that two figures have been conflated.
Imbolc is not recorded as ever being celebrated here in Northumberland, but the reasons for celebrating it as an agricultural festival would have been just as important here. The season for sowing, the start of the lambing, the return of the light, and the promise of warmer, less lean days to come.
#Imbolc #SaintBrigid #StBrigidsDay #folklore #folkways #FolkHistory #SaintsDays #history #spring #February #Pagan #RuralLife #OldWays #sunshine #nature #wildflowers #northumberland #aconites #snowdrops #landscape #landscapephotography
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Imbolc. St Brigid's Day. 1st of February.
Imbolc is recorded in early medieval Irish sources and was also historically celebrated in Scotland and the Isle of Man. It's generally believed that the origin is older, pre-Christian, and the date is important to many modern pagans as the start of spring. It's also the feast day of St Brigid, mother saint of Ireland, and traditions included the weaving of Brigid's Crosses from rushes. Many believe that Brigid is a Christianised version of a pre-Christian goddess, although she is also recorded as a real historic figure who founded the Abbey of Kildare. It may be that two figures have been conflated.
Imbolc is not recorded as ever being celebrated here in Northumberland, but the reasons for celebrating it as an agricultural festival would have been just as important here. The season for sowing, the start of the lambing, the return of the light, and the promise of warmer, less lean days to come.
#Imbolc #SaintBrigid #StBrigidsDay #folklore #folkways #FolkHistory #SaintsDays #history #spring #February #Pagan #RuralLife #OldWays #sunshine #nature #wildflowers #northumberland #aconites #snowdrops #landscape #landscapephotography
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Seeing an ad announcing that the venerable #Folkways Records (#SmithsonianFolkways these days) is looking for someone with "DSP" experience, which I'm just enough of a geek to realize couldn't mean Digital Signal Processor, but I'm also nostalgic about pre-commercialism Usenet and know nothing about digital marketing and online ad sales...
Found an alternative DSP for Folkways to look at:And for my own grudging edification:
https://www.musicgateway.com/blog/music-industry/music-production/what-is-a-dsp -
#nowplaying - #peteseeger put out so many LPs on #folkways that many are analogous to semi-casual bandcamp drops. side A of "the rainbow quest" from 1960 is pete in one of my favorite tender/mellow modes, including the 1st recording of "where have all the flowers gone," except all the songs are medlied together as choruses/fragments, intended for somber collegiate singalongs, i suspect. side B is more topical/newsy, bringing #ewanmaccoll / #peggyseeger songs to american ears.