nodep5 Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Well, I'm a Folkways collector (the vinyl variety) and I just recently revisited the Smithsonian Folkways website. The whole spirit of Mo Asch (founder of the label) was too never let the some 2000 titles to ever go out of print. Well you can go on the website and get digital downloads of alot of the albums for I Tunes prices. Anyway, cool site. My rule of thumb when at a record store. If I see a folkways record I buy it. (Even a Pete Seeger one) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
isadorah Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 I used to work for Folklife which Folkways is a part of and got to have sneak previews of the recordings and helped with the design of some of the cd covers and catalogues. Folkways does a lot of good stuff. they get a thumbs up from me (even if the Folklife side of the organization was riddled with crazy). and hey, what's wrong with Pete Seeger, . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 and hey, what's wrong with Pete Seeger, .Yea, really?? I have tons of Pete on Folkways. I buy them too. Some are kind of beat up since they were pretty popular in their day. The not going out of print is only semi true. You can request the files I guess, but not all the artwork. I think this is the way it works. Somewhere along the way I ended up with a bunch of Ella Jenkins Folkways records.... LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nodep5 Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 Yea, really?? I have tons of Pete on Folkways. I buy them too. Some are kind of beat up since they were pretty popular in their day. The not going out of print is only semi true. You can request the files I guess, but not all the artwork. I think this is the way it works. Somewhere along the way I ended up with a bunch of Ella Jenkins Folkways records.... LouieB On the website they have all the original artwork posted under folkways records. Most titles also have downloads of original liner note booklets. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NightOfJoy Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Well, I'm a Folkways collector (the vinyl variety) and I just recently revisited the Smithsonian Folkways website. The whole spirit of Mo Asch (founder of the label) was too never let the some 2000 titles to ever go out of print. Well you can go on the website and get digital downloads of alot of the albums for I Tunes prices. Anyway, cool site. My rule of thumb when at a record store. If I see a folkways record I buy it. (Even a Pete Seeger one) In all my years of scrounging around garage sales and resale shops looking for vinyl, I've only come across one Folkways album........of harpsicord music. Ugh....totally unlistenable. I still have it....much to the chagrin of my lovely wife Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nodep5 Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 In all my years of scrounging around garage sales and resale shops looking for vinyl, I've only come across one Folkways album........of harpsicord music. Ugh....totally unlistenable. I still have it....much to the chagrin of my lovely wife Yeah they are reclusive little buggers. I usually find at least one Folkways album in any decent used record store, but hands down, the best collection I have ever seen was in a record store in Chicago around 2003 (don't remember the name of store of course). They had a ton of New Lost City Ramblers and a few Woody Guthrie records. I picked up Bound For Glory and Songs of the Depression that day. Anyway, cool place and reasonably priced. Ebay has a decent amount usually available also. I just wish I was in to this back when all the public library's let go of their vinyl. Damn can you imagine. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mfwahl Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 On the website they have all the original artwork posted under folkways records. Most titles also have downloads of original liner note booklets.Whoa, you're right about that. You don't even need to buy the tracks to read the liner notes. A lot of that is just good reading right there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Smith Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 My only exposure to folkways is the cd of Leadbelly and Guthrie covers from the late 1980 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NightOfJoy Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 I just wish I was in to this back when all the public library's let go of their vinyl. Damn can you imagine. I was able to take advantage of that! Got Dylans "Biograph" among a few other gems. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dondoboy Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 I just wish I was in to this back when all the public library's let go of their vinyl.I did well on this too. There was a huge collection on the Air Force base where my Dad worked. I cleaned up. 10 cent records! I'd say 1/3 of what I have came from that library. Hardly anyone else went to the sale. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 I found an old beat up copy of Broadside Ballads by Pete Seeger way back. Lots of crazy good stuff on Folkways (Almanac Singers, Woody Guthrie, New Lost City Ramblers, etc.) that I have found since then, but also alot of ethomusicologist type stuff as well. Depends on what you like I suppose. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dreamin' Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Lots of good children's music on Smithsonian Folkways, as well. My 2 yr old daughter loves to sing along with Woody. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Lots of good children's music on Smithsonian Folkways, as well. My 2 yr old daughter loves to sing along with Woody.I have two copies of that...one green one blue as I recall. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nodep5 Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Lots of good children's music on Smithsonian Folkways, as well. My 2 yr old daughter loves to sing along with Woody. The jewell of my record collection is a pristine copy of Woody's Folkways Songs To Grow On. I got for 20 bucks, went home and looked in a price guide "Wowee Zowee" Little sack o sugar eat you up! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 The jewell of my record collection is a pristine copy of Woody's Folkways Songs To Grow On. I got for 20 bucks, went home and looked in a price guide "Wowee Zowee" Little sack o sugar eat you up!20 bucks? I think I paid a buck a copy. If the guide is saying their are worth a whole lot more (mine aren't pristine I don't think), it seems sort of over blown. Most copies were bought by commie parents for their pink diaper babies. The copies I got were in piles donated to resale shops when those babies probably grew up and became either music fans who forgot who Woody was or capitalists pigs. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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