Summary: Ears of the People is a collection of sublime contemporary recordings of the ekonting, a three-stringed gourd lute played by Jola people in Gambia and the Casamance region of Senegal. The nine tradition-bearers featured on the album share stories of love, heartache, conflict, spirituality, and all that is unique and beautiful in Jola culture over the rolling lilt of the instrument. An important...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN EARBrown, Alison
Contents: Wind the clock -- Choro 'nuff / (feat. Anat Cohen) -- Foggy morning breaking / (feat. Steve Martin) -- Sweet sixteenths / (feat. Sierra Hull) -- Sun and water (Here comes the sun/Waters of March) -- Old shatterhand -- Regalito / (feat. Sharon Isbin) -- Banjobim -- Tall hog at the trough / (feat. Stuart Duncan) -- Porches / (feat. Kronos Quartet)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY BROCoyne, Éamonn
Contents: Introduction -- A short history of the tenor banjo -- Parts of the tenor banjo -- Strings and tuning -- Holding the tenor banjo -- The plectrum -- Picking -- Basic music theory -- Fingering/the fretboard -- The D string -- The A string -- The D major scale -- Rhythm -- Oh! Susanna -- Egan's polka -- The E string -- Johnny Leary's -- The rolling waves -- The G major scale -- The ashplant -- The...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC 787.88 CONContents: [Disc 1]. Chapter 1. [Live at the Boarding House, May 1, 1974]. Salty dog blues -- Doc's talking blues -- Blue yodel no. 1 (T for Texas) -- Miss the Mississippi and you -- Wabash cannonball -- Nancy Rowland -- Solid gone -- Tennessee stud -- Frosty morn -- Matchbox blues -- Mama don't allow no music -- Deep elem blues.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK WATContents: Night train to Valhalla / John Fahey (2:14) -- The ice miner / Leo Kottke (1:54) -- Anyhow / Leo Kottke (2:04) -- April in Cambridge / Peter Walker (3:11) -- Water verses / Harry taussig (1:52) -- Children's dance / Harry Taussig (3:48) -- Little Maggie / Sandy Bull (4:08) -- On the banks of the Owchita / John Fahey (3:50) -- Gypsy song / Peter Walker (3:41) -- Raga (1) / Max Ochs (4:53) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK THORed Tail Ring (Musical group)
Contents: Sugarwine -- Hangman -- Eliza -- The road is my skyway -- Harps & jaws -- Trouble -- Peshtigo -- Baby's in the black gold -- My ol' friends -- Sky's gone coal -- The oak set -- Stone song.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Earthwork Music 2019
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL REDSatake, Akira.
Contents: Tail wag dog jig -- Nobody's hat -- Mr. Fulla Bullets -- A. I. -- Basho -- A taste of loomi -- All else pales -- Into and out of it -- Atami.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alula Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN SatakContents: CD 1. Ladies on the steamboat (Burnett & Rutherford) -- The dying soldier (Buell Kazee) -- Little rabbit ; Rabbit where's your mammy (Crockett Family Mountaineers) -- I truly understand you love another man (Shortbuckle Roarke & Family) -- Eighth of January (Ted Gossett's Band) -- All night long blues (Burnett & Rutherford) -- Shipping port (Jimmy Johnson's String Band) -- The Rowan County crew...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Yazoo 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY KEN1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC CD COUNTRY KEN
Mumford & Sons (Musical group)
Summary: The eagerly anticipated debut album from British folk-indie quartet Mumford & Sons features the single Little Lion Man. This CD is full of beautiful harmonies and rollicking banjo chords.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010