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Various Calypso: Vintage Songs from the Caribbean. - sound recording review Putamayo 205 This compilation of recordings, originally released on the ART label in the 1950s and 1960s, provides the listener a snapshot of the influence of Kaiso music (Calypso). This device f...(Continue Reading) Various Songs of the African Coast: Cafe Music of Liberia and Ghana. - Brief Article - sound recording review Guthrie Alberts The first five songs on this album are sung over bright, swinging, "palm wine" acoustic guitar and a percussive scraper--a sound familiar ......(Continue Reading)We're the Light Crust Doughboys from Burrus Mill We're the Light Crust Doughboys from Burrus Mill JEAN A. BOYD University of Texas Press, Austin, 2003 164 pp. The Light Crust Doughboys Are On the ......(Continue Reading)Steve Forbert Any Old Time: Songs of Jimmie Rodgers. - sound recording review Koch 8400 The country music industry was born in August 1927 in Bristol, Tennessee when the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers, country music's first ......(Continue Reading)The Weavers Rarities from the Vanguard Vault. - Brief Article - sound recording review Vanguard 79707 In the early 1950s, the Weavers vocal quartet, anchored by Pete Seeger's aggressive, emotional banjo playing along with Ronnie Gilbert, ......(Continue Reading)
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