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Smithsonian Podcasts 24 hours of Americana (and World Music)

Hi all-

Smithsonian Folkways has 24 hour-long podcasts giving and overview of the Folkways (and I think Library of Congress) music, oral history and poetry collections free for the download. You like Woodie Guthrie? You like Leadbelly? You like early jazz? It's all here and it's all free! Check it out: http://www.folkways.si.edu/explore_folkways/folkways_collection.aspx

Best regards, Willie

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Permalink Reply by Andy Estabrooks on September 29, 2009 at 9:39am

Thanks Willie, great link!

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Permalink Reply by Brian Lemin on September 29, 2009 at 8:41pm

That is right up my street.

Thanks fo the tip.

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Permalink Reply by Diydc on September 29, 2009 at 11:00pm

Great radiostation with some truly top tracks on it....
Thanks for the link.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Lemin on September 30, 2009 at 12:59am

I have started downloading.... thanks

I have been looking for historical jazz/blues video clips on that site as I thought they would have "plenty". I have not managed to locate any.... Can anyone help me out please?

Possibly not on the Smithsonian site....I do not mind.

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Permalink Reply by One String Willie on September 30, 2009 at 1:32am

Hi all-

I downloaded all of these yesterday and started burning them onto CD (what's an "iPod?"). I listened to the first one last night and started the second driving into work today. These first two are an interesting history of Folkways records and Moses Asch, with occasional music by Woodie Guthrie, Leadbelly, etc. These are worth listening to in part because they talk about how Asch ran a record company without any "stars," and in fact how "stars" cause problems for record companies. He had an very interesting way of thinking about things that would be useful for us in the Nation to consider.

I am really looking forward to the three segments on the Anthology of American Folk Music. Our local library had this set of six CDs, and it is really amazing and worth getting. The Asch recordings of Woodie Guthrie are on my christmas wish list.

Best regards, Willie