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 EARSummary: A self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and on-screen banjo tablature so you can play all the music examples. Simply follow along with the music on the screen as you watch and listen to the teacher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard Corp. 2010
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: DVD 787.88 PLACarr, Joe.
Summary: First Lessons Tenor Banjo The great sound of tenor banjo is a cornerstone of Dixieland and traditional jazz. Using classic favorites, Joe Carr teaches the basics of accompaniment, basic melody and the popular chord melody style. Chords and melody are combined to produce professional sounding solo arrangements. This book/CD-DVD combo includes play-along practice tracks that speed up the learning...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Mel Bay Publications 2006
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC 787.88 CARO'Brien, Colin (Colin G.)
Summary: "This beginner's book will guide you step by step to playing songs on your banjo in the popular and exciting bluegrass style."--P. [2].
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Remember and do pray for me (Lloyd Chandler) (1:22) -- The silk merchant's daughter (Dellie Norton) (1:55) -- Rambling hobo ; Apple blossom (Gaither Carlton) (1:41; :50) -- Pretty crowing chicken (Frank Proffitt) (3:44) -- Forkey deer (Sidna Myers) (2:03) -- Satan, your kingdom must come down (Frank Proffitt) (1:49) -- Cumberland Gap ; Rolling mills are burning down (George Landers) (1:59;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK HIGTrischka, Tony
Summary: "A collection of over seventy-five bluegrass, old-time fiddle, and classical tunes in tablature for the 5-string banjo : includes sections on Scruggs, Reno, and melodic styles, interviews, tips on playing, and more : for the beginning to advanced player"--Cover.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Oak Publications 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.88 BANContents: [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 THOFleck, Béla
Contents: Disc A. Vertigo / feat. Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Bryan Sutton -- The old north woods -- Slippery eel / feat. Billy Strings and Chris Thile -- Hug point / feat. Sierra Hull and Molly Tuttle -- Boulderdash / feat. Tony Trischka and Noam Pikelny -- Our little secret -- Round rock / feat. Michael Cleveland and Jerry Douglas -- Baptist pumpkin farm -- Charm school / feat. Billy...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FLEBrown, 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 BROHolcomb, Roscoe.
Contents: Swanno mountain (3:14) -- Across the rocky mountain (5:19) -- Graveyard blues (2:57) -- Single girl (2:58) -- Little Maggie (2:58) -- Born and raised in Covington (2:14) -- Barbara Allen blues (1:26) -- Coal Creek (1:28) -- Rock Island prison (1:31) -- I am a man of constant sorrow / Carter Stanley (2:56) -- Combs Hotel burned down (2:29) -- The hills of Mexico (2:29) -- Knife guitar (1:14) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY HolcoContents: Coo coo (John Snipes) (1:13) -- Coo coo (Dink Roberts) (2:09) -- Old rattler : fox chase (John Snipes) (2:44) -- Georgie Buck (Dink Roberts) (1:00) -- Georgia Buck (Joe Thompson & Odell Thompson) (1:34) -- John Henry (James Roberts) (:47) -- High sheriff (:37) ; John Hardy (1:03) ; Garfield (1:19) ; Old corn liquor (1:19) (Dink Roberts) -- Old corn liquor (1:07) ; John Henry (2:17) (Joe...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian/Folkways 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BLABullard, John
Contents: Three romances for oboe and piano, op. 94 / Robert Schumann -- Concerto in D minor / Alessandro Marcello -- Partita no. 5 in E minor / Georg Philipp Telemann -- Trio sonata in G minor, op. 2, no. 8, HWV 393 / George Frideric Handel -- Fugue, sonata no. 1, BWV 1001 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Jesu, joy of man's desiring, movement 10 from the cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben", BWV 147 /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BULSteiner, Max
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: M. Witmark 1944
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMBaird, Laura
Contents: Wind, wind -- Dreadful wind and rain -- Cuckoo -- Love song from the earth to the moon -- Pretty Saro -- Bats -- Did you come here alone? -- Pretty Polly -- Hay in the wagon -- Home is where you are -- Poor orphan child -- Twin sisters
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ba Da Bing! 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BAIContents: Devil's dream ; Tally ho! / Blanche Coldiron -- Boatin' up Sandy / Earl Thomas -- Granny went to meeting with her old shoes on / Earl Thomas with Billy Stamper -- John Hardy / Buell Kazee -- Roll on, Buddy, roll on / Paul Smith -- Rippling water / Paul Smith with Bert Hatfield -- Down the river, oh yes / Bert Garvin -- Red lick / Travis Wells -- Walking in the parlor / Vernon and Zora Judd with...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records Corp. 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY KENContents: Haywood Belvins/Old Molly Hare -- John W. Summers/Old Blind Sow, She Stoel the Middins -- Clenn Ohrlin/The High Toned dance -- Frazier & Patterson/Po' Black Sheep -- Ola Belle Reed/High on a mountain -- Owen Snake Chapman/McMinnville' Breakdown -- Willson Douglas/One more river to cross -- Bruce Molsky and Big HOedown/Rocky Mountain -- Oscar & Eugene Wright/Protecting the Innocent -- Asa...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY OLDWade, Stephen.
Contents: Lost gander (2:11) -- John Greer's two-step (2:16) -- Money musk/White cockade (3:18) -- Snowdrop (1:59) -- Davy Davy (1:30) -- Pig ankle rag (1:38) -- Georgia buck/Cluckin' hen (1:44) -- Shooting Creek (2:20) -- Rye straw (2:05) -- Buckdancer's choice/Needlecase (2:41) -- Old Joe (1:41) -- Mulberry Gap (1:48) -- Baptist shout (1:41) -- Drunken waggoner (2:39) -- Rockhouse Joe (1:54) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Fish 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK WADRed 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 SatakFairchild, Raymond.
Contents: Slew foot-- Dixie -- Little Maggie -- Lost to a stranger -- Raymond's repeating banjo -- Casey Jones -- I ain't gonna work tomorrow -- Foggy mountain top -- Cripple creek -- Rolling in my sweet baby's arms -- Flying turkey -- Raymond's frosty mountain on fire -- Ride my blues away --Mama likes bluegrass music -- You are my flower -- Worried mountain -- Black eyed Suzie -- Pat's train special --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rural Rhythm 1967
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY FAIMartin, Steve
Contents: Daddy Played the Banjo (3:19) -- Pitkin County Turnaround (2:29) -- Hoedown At Alice's (3:21) -- Late for School (3:47) -- Tin Roof (2:20) -- Words Unspoken (2:56) -- Pretty Flowers (2:42) -- Wally on the Run (1:37) -- Freddie's Lilt (2:51) -- Saga of the Old West (3:24) -- Clawhammer Medley (2:16) -- Calico Train (4:47) -- Banana Banjo (2:14) -- Blue River Waltz (2:18) -- The Crow (3:23) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: New Rounder 2010
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Stanley, Ralph.
Contents: Disc 1. How mountain girls can love -- Shouting on the hills of glory -- Pretty Polly -- The window up above -- I just got wise -- If that's the way you feel -- Nobody's love is like mine -- Memories of Mother -- The lonesome river -- Old love letters -- She's more to be pitied -- When I wake up to sleep no more -- Another night -- Gold watch and chain -- Thy burdens are greater than mine --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rebel 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY STAWest, Hedy.
Summary: Hedy West was one of the most individual and inspiring folk musicians to grace the North American and European folk scenes. Ace UK's remastered release of her two solo albums for Vanguard is available for the first time anywhere apart from limited-edition, expensive imports or bootlegs. A major restoration to the marketplace, none of this material has ever been released commercially in Europe...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard UK 2012