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Fruit Jar Drinkers, Dixie Sacred Singers, Uncle Dave Macon -- Sam McGee's...
New York, NY, May 07, 1927 (14 MB zipped MONO mp3) 01 Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers - Tell Her to Come Back Home 02 Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers -...
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More Woody Guthrie Radio, 1940
FORECAST #10, "Back Where I Come From",featuring The Golden Gate Quartet, Woody Guthrie, Len Doyle, Burl Ives, Josh White, Willie Johnson. Host: Clifton Fadiman, written by Alan Lomax & Nicholas...
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1947 Woody Guthrie Radio -- Hootenanny (March 10, 1947)
The complete March 10, 1947 broadcast as heard on CBS radio, with Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie, Eddie Smith, Brownie McGhee, Hally Wood, Sidney Bechet, Pops Foster, Cisco Houston and The...
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The (Original) Carter Family - 1935 ARC Recordings (40 tracks)
New York, NY, May 05, 1935 (5.74 zipped MONO mp3) 01 Carter Family, The - Glory to the Lamb 02 Carter Family, The - Behind Those Stone Walls...
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Sam McGee, 1928 to 1946 Recordings (with Uncle Dave Macon, Kirk McGee) (28...
Chicago, IL, July 25, 1928 (22 MB zipped MONO mp3): 01 Uncle Dave Macon - From Earth to Heaven 02 Uncle Dave Macon - The Coon That Had the Razor...
View Article1992 "Bobfest" (Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert) online as streams from NL
I was just alerted that the 1992 "Bobfest" (Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert) is online as streams from NL.Given the fact that Dylan content is "closed down" left and right all over the net, this...
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John Greenway - Obvious Source of Dylan's Talking Blues (expanded article,...
Back in 1996, while going through my non-Dylan records, I came across an album, I hadn't listened to for quite a while (maybe because on first listening I had deemed it too "scholarly" and too far...
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"Country Music" from behind the Iron Curtain....
It sure sounded "Country" (with the canned applause and everything) and must have given GDR citizens a similar feeling as when watching Marlboro commercials on West German TV -- even though hardly...
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More "Country Music" from behind the Iron Curtain... in German!
A rather strange album (and a historical document, for sure) -- conceived and recorded by state-owned Amiga in 1989, liner-notes from 1990, after the Iron Curtain had collapsed and the GDR prepared for...
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Former GDR Public Library item acquired in 1990 - Wanda Jackson in Prague,...
Whereas "Country Music made in GDR" (see my two previous posts) was rather "lame" and somewhat "fake", other Warsaw Pact countries seemed to be more interested in "the real McCoy" -- as far back as...
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Charlie Daniels Interview by Manfred Helfert, January 1991
© Manfred Helfert, 1991; first published in rec.music.dylan, Feb 1996. THE STORY BEHIND THIS INTERVIEW: On Apr 19, 1990, Charlie Daniels and Band played a USO concert at the Rheingold-Halle in Mainz,...
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The Death of Emmett Till - Historical & Discographical Background of two...
Expanded edition of an original article first published in rec.music.dylan, Apr 1996, reprinted in "Dignity," No. 7, Nov-Dec 1996, pp. 11-14; Original Content © Manfred Helfert, 1996-2011. On August,...
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New Bob Dylan Roots & Influences Blog
Please check out (and possibly subscribe to) my latest blog, dedicated to Bob Dylan's musical roots and influences at http://bobdylanroots.blogspot.com
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Johnny Cash's "variant" of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" -- "Understand...
To celebrate what would have been The Man in Black's 79th birthday today, I uploaded several Johnny Cash clips to YouTube -- this one being Johnny Cash's "variant" of Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's...
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R. I. P. Suze Rotolo (1943-2011)
I added a little tribute to Suze Rotolo (with links to some audio and video) to my "Bob Dylan Roots" blog.
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"You Can't Make A Living In A Cotton Mill" -- Dave McCarn (1930-'31 Recordings)
I first heard the name Dave McCarn as the author of a song ("Everyday Dirt") covered by Doc Watson on his Folkways debut album, a little later in connection with his trilogy of political songs about...
View ArticleBob Dylan and The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - HAPPY SAINT PADRAIG'S DAY!
A few connections between Bob Dylan and The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem --HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!!!!>/center>
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From Bob Dylan's Private Record Collection - Blind Boy Fuller (1935-1940)
In a tribute to Suze Rotolo earlier this year, Jeff Gold (of recordmecca.com) posted pictures/scans of two items from Dylan's personal record collection (folk blues on the European/Dutch Philips label,...
View ArticleElizabeth Cotten captured live in the 1960s
Found a wonderful YouTube channel with what seems to be 1960s blues and folk concerts from (most likely) KCTS, Seattle, WA. I think that these priceless performances should be shared as widely as...
View ArticleRosanne Cash on her father's list of "100 Essential Songs" and Bob Dylan's...
Rosanne Cash, in conversation with Daniel J. Levitin, WGBH, Boston, MA, on her father's (Johnny Cash's) list of "100 Essential Songs" and Dylan's "Girl From The North Country" (Oct. 21, 2009):
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Various Artists, "Saturday of Folk Music", Riverside Church, New York, NY,...
Recently, I came across two CDs of amateur recordings from the July 29, 1961 "Saturday of Folk Music", broadcast on WRVR, New York, NY.Whoever had the foresight to record this for posterity, did it...
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Due to the recent seizure of megaupload.com by the FBI, most of my (legal) files (under EU law where this blog originates and in accordance with the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107) are no...
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