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2025-06-10

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.

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#1970s #1979 #APCarter #Blues #Country #covers #Folk #Folkways #HankWilliams #JohnGrumaudo #LucindaWilliams #MalacoStudios #RobertJohnson #SmithsonianFolkways #TomRoyals #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

2025-04-12

MICHAEL HURLEY, 1941-2025
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So sorry to learn of the death of Michael Hurley. The attachment is a screenshot from a Smithsonian Folkways mailing that arrived this afternoon. My old singing partner was a solid Michael Hurley fan.

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#bluemountain #folkmusic #folkways #folkwaysrecords #michaelhurley #music #musicnews #singersongwriter #smithsonianfolkways #teasong #theteasong

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2025-04-04

TRACY SCHWARZ, 1938-2025
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The attachment is a screenshot from a Smithsonian Folkways e-mailing that arrived today.

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#cajunmusic #countrymusic #folkmusic #music #musicnews #newlostcityramblers #oldtimemusic #oldtimeymusic #smithsonianfolkways #tracyschwarz

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2025-03-29

DOC WATSON
"DEEP RIVER BLUES"
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Doc Watson - "Deep River Blues" (Doc's Guitar: Fingerpicking & Flatpicking DVD)
Smithsonian Folkways [Introduced by Ralph Rinzler]

youtube.com/watch?v=cE2swkx9WX

This is Smithsonian Folkways' most played YouTube video. See why.

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#countrymusic #deepriverblues #docwatson #folkmusic #music #musicnews #ralphrinzler #smithsonianfolkways

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2025-02-19

Smithsonian Folkways: Smithsonian Folkways Launches Music Pathways, an Innovative New Teaching Tool. “Smithsonian Folkways has announced the launch of the Smithsonian Folkways Music Pathways, an innovative new teaching tool designed to illuminate lesser-known corners of music history using the sounds and resources available in the label’s iconic catalog.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/19/smithsonian-folkways-smithsonian-folkways-launches-music-pathways-an-innovative-new-teaching-tool/

2024-02-16

LEAD BELLY ON WNYC

WNYC rounded up fascinating archival recordings from Lead Belly’s appearances on the station, spanning from 1940 to 1948.

Source: Smithsonian Folkways, "Folkways Digest," Friday, February 16, 2024.

It is not really often that we have hot Lead Belly news.

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#folkmusic #folkways #huddieledbetter #leadbelly #musicnews #newyorkcity #newyorkmusic #smithsonianfolkways #wnyc

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Dan Kletter 🥑soundclamp@mastodon.xyz
2023-11-11

#NowPlaying For the 75th anniversary of #SmithsonianFolkways, they commissioned Baltimore-based experimental electronic music duo #Matmos to make an LP using the record label's back catalog. youtube.com/watch?v=bgE5EjMV4I

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2023-09-02
Rob Thornton (“No Planet B”)rthornton777
2023-08-01

(8/1/23)

“Black Annie” by

youtu.be/RdzopqM0JqQ

“Roustabout (Buffalo)” by Dink Roberts

youtu.be/kN8AlOUTUn8

NOTE: From the Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia.” The banjo was invented by Black people, so Dink belongs to a long tradition of Black .

@Long_live_rock_n_roll
@rephlex00@beige.party
@Superleopold
@bitterkarella

Dan Kletter 🥑soundclamp@mastodon.xyz
2023-06-07

#NowPlaying #CharlesMBogert Woo-hoo! #SmithsonianFolkways is reissuing “Sounds of North American Frogs” on vinyl to celebrate their 75 year anniversary. folkways.si.edu/sounds-of-nort

2023-01-24

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:

youtu.be/0Sg8AeNy_2g

And for my own grudging edification:
musicgateway.com/blog/music-in

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