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Sample the sound
We asked local roots artists to name their favorite traditional or modern folk recordings.
Kris Delmhorst
Stanley Brothers, "The Complete Columbia Recordings" (Columbia Legacy)
Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, "The Live Recordings, 1956-69" (Smithsonian Folkways)
Missisippi John Hurt, "Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings" (Columbia Legacy/Okeh)
Freight Hoppers "Where'd You Come From, Where'd You Go" (Rounder)
Altan "Harvest Storm," (Green Linnet)
Gillian Welch, "Revival," (Almo)
Adam Dewey
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, "Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall" (Koch)
Joe Val, "One Morning in May" (Rounder)
Tony Rice, "Guitar" (Rounder)
Bill Monroe, "Instrumental" (MCA)
Tim Kelly
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, "Songs of the Famous Carter Family" (Sony Music)
Sol Hoopii, "Mystery of the Hawaiian Guitar," vols. I and II (Rounder)
Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer, and Russ Barenburg, "Skip, Hop and Wobble" (Sugar Hill)
Bertrand Laurence
Leo Kottke, "6 and 12 String Guitar" (Takoma)
Merle Travis, "The Merle Travis Guitar" (Longhorn)
Blind Blake, "Collection" (Document)
Big Bill Broonzy, "Collection" (Document)
Alastair Moock
Woody Guthrie, "The Library of Congress Recordings" (Rounder)
Lead Belly Ledbetter, "Alabama Bound" (Rounder)
Taj Mahal, "World Music" (Columbia Legacy)
Michael Tarbox
"Anthology of American Folk Music," various artists, collected by Harry Smith (Smithsonian Folkways)
"Southern Journeys," various artists, collected by Alan Lomax (Rounder)
"American Primitive, Vol. 1: Raw, Pre-War Gospel," various artists (Relevant)
Dock Boggs, "Country Blues" (Relevant)
Lead Belly Ledbetter, "Library of Congress Recordings" (Rounder)
Charlie Patton, "Founder of the Country Blues" (Yazoo)
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