The Carter Family are among the most important artists in the entire history of popular music. They were pioneers in writing and recording folk and country music for the commercial market, and their... more

"The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement" is usually filed under folk, but Odetta could tingle the spine with gospel and jazz, too. This is an amazing value for 122 tracks from her prime: her nine LPs... more

Cisco Houston was a folk singer and songwriter, brought up in California, who was a close associate of Woody Guthrie, whom he met while working as an actor in Hollywood in the late '30s. They started... more

These CDs chronicle the period when Van Ronk emerged as a fixture and guiding light in the Greenwich Village coffee-house scene. He traverses folk, blues, jug-band, ragtime, New Orleans jazz and more... more

The Kingston Trio were one of the most popular and successful groups to emerge from the growth in popularity of folk music during the 1950s, as they brought a polished commercial approach to updated... more

The Clancy Brothers, more than any other artists, brought traditional Irish folk music to a wide popular audience during the late '50s and early '60s, and re-established as a proud cultural movement... more