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Authentic Ethnic Music Recordings: Forgotten Songs of Ukrainians

This music is vanishing away. Unique authentic music recordings made at the end of the last century during folklore research expeditions on both banks of Dneper River in Kiev District of Ukraine.

Recommended if you like Devo.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $6.95
  • Buy CD - $10.95
 
Fred Eaglesmith: Tinderbox

Tinderbox is the new album by Fred Eagelsmith. This alternative gospel (gospel for non-believers) cd, is full if backsliders and people living on the margins. It rocks and rolls with distortion and preachers and end times.

Recommended if you like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $19.99
  • Buy CD - $19.99
 
Daniel Gannaway: Bootlegged at the Temple

".Herein lies the essence of Bootlegged: simply an audience, a musician, and a quiet venue . . . - no hype."

  • Download Album (MP3) - $7.00
  • Buy CD - $10.00
 
Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention: Sacred Harp Singing in Western Massachusetts 2000-2001

Field recordings of Sacred Harp singing (not performing) events in western Massachusetts--the music is rugged and soulful American harmony--loud, rhythmic and spirited a capella singing.

Recommended if you like Brother, Cold, Cordelia's Dad, Mountain, Thou.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
  • Buy CD - $14.00
 
Chris Schoen: Heraclitus

Downer lyrics? Check. Haunting chord progressions? Check. Addictively hummalongable? Check.

  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
  • Buy CD - $12.00
 
Royal Pine: Chanty Town

Acoustic duo plays indie-folk Americana gypsy.

Recommended if you like Crooked Still, Jolie Holland, Regina Spektor, Tom Waits.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
  • Buy CD - $10.95
 
Bob Bassara, Clayton Bailey, Jon Raskin: Kaolithic Music, Sounds from the Pre Credulous Age

3 jaw harp players recorded in a 538 gallon vase that was used to establish a time-continuum link to the Kaolithic Age. A intimate, vibrate acoustic space ideal for creative music from one of the original instruments created by humans.

  • Download Album (MP3) - $7.00
  • Buy CD - $7.00
 
Warner Collection, Vol. 1: Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still

An overview of the field recordings of traditional American music made by song collectors Anne and Frank Warner along the Eastern Seaboard from 1940 to 1966 - "real deal" folk songs from the source.

Recommended if you like Frank Proffitt, Pete Seeger, Tim Eriksen.
  • Buy CD - $15.00
 
Warner Collection, Vol. 2: Nothing Seems Better to Me - The Music of Frank Proffitt and North Carolina

More field recordings of traditional American music collected by Anne and Frank Warner along the Eastern Seaboard from 1940 to 1966 - "real deal" folk songs from the source.

Recommended if you like Cordelia's Dad, Pete Seeger, Tim Eriksen.
  • Buy CD - $15.00
 
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