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Honest Jon's
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Lower Stable Street
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London
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Monday-Saturday 11 till 6; Sunday 11 till 5

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Classic Folk Music

From Smithsonian Folkways

Folkways

Sarah Webster Fabio

Together To The Tune Of Coltrane's Equinox

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Sarah Webster Fabio

Jujus / Alchemy Of The Blues

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Orange Street Special

Fabulous Songs Of Miss Sonia E Pottinger Vol 2

Drum And Bass

No let up by the Drum And Bass crew — just check the sound samples — more rock steady treasures unearthed.

Leadbelly

The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

More than a hundred recordings — including fourteen previously unreleased tracks, and two radio shows from 1941 — housed in a hardbound 12-inch album, with a 140-page book of essays and rare photos.

Joseph Spence

Encore

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Wonderful, previously-unheard recordings by the legendary Bahamian guitarist, at his peak in 1965, made at his only New York concert, at home in Nassau, and in a Manhattan apartment. Gripping, one-off playing, continuously stepping out of line, or surprising you with accents, like Monk; rough, enraptured singing in the age-old tradition of local sponge fishermen, with startling irruptions of humming, babble and scat.

Joseph Spence

Bahaman Folk Guitar: Music from the Bahamas, Vol. 1

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Anthology Of American Folk Music

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Harry Smith’s monument.

The Watson Family

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Wu Man

Music Of Central Asia Vol. 10

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Pipa master Wu Man and her Uyghur, Tajik, and Hui collaborators explore connections between the musical worlds of China and Central Asia.

John Cage

Indeterminacy

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Telling ninety one-minute stories (sped up or slowed down according to length), whilst pianist David Tudor plays bits from a couple of Cage’s compositions, in a different studio. A 1959 Folkways.

Hubert Porter With The Jamaican Calypsonians

Calypsos From Jamaica

Dub Store

Irresistible 1950s mento — singalong tunes, ebulliently performed, over-spilling with scandal, smut and impudence, sex, dancing and booze, word-play, jokes and up-to-the minute social commentary, and general love for life.

Sonia

Ooh Baby Baby

D-Roy

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Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard

Won't You Come And Sing For Me?

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Blazing, hardcore bluegrass from 1967, including covers of the Stanley Brothers, the Louvin Brothers, the Delmore Brothers, and the Carter Family. Written for the duo by the father of bluegrass legend Bill Monroe, and saturated in blues music, closer The One I Love Is Gone is the killer blow.

Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard

Who's That Knocking?

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Their monumental 1965 debut. Driving, full-strength bluegrass, with magnificent accompaniment by fiddler Chubby Wise, David Grisman on mandolin, and Lamar Grier from the Blue Grass Boys playing banjo.

Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard

Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Their first two, groundbreaking Folkways LPs, plus a previously-unreleased go at the Louvins’ Childish Love. Decent booklet, with various essays and great photos.

‘When those albums first came out, I was disappointed with the quality of the sound,’ writes engineer Peter Siegel. ‘I think the new masters better capture the essence of Hazel and Alice’s music, and sound more like the traditional bluegrass style that these performances represent.’

Ears Of The People

Ekonting Songs from Senegal and The Gambia

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Songs for dancing, about love and heartache, conflict, and spirituality, over the rolling lilt of the ekonting, a three-stringed gourd lute played by Jola people in Gambia and the Casamance region of Senegal.

Sounds Of North American Frogs

The Biological Significance Of Voice In Frogs

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Put On Your Best Dress

Sonia Pottinger Ska & Rock Steady 1966-1967

Doctor Bird

Sonia Ferguson

My Baby Of Magic

Cha Cha

Classic, feel-good, disco-friendly Lovers Rock from 1980. Sonia is so happy she sings to herself.

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