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Smithsonian Folkways American roots collection

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Smithsonian Folkways American roots collection

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Smithsonian Folkway presents a panorama of American Roots music with styles including blues, folk, bluegrass, and jazz. This collection also features classic tracks from Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lucinda Williams, Bill Monroe, and more

Penitentiary blues / (Lightnin' Hopkins) (2:53) -- Sweet old Chicago / (Roosevelt Sykes) (2:56) -- Blue moon of Kentucky / (Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys) (2:00) -- If I had a hammer / (Pete Seeger) (2:10) -- Lafayette / (Lucinda Williams) (3:41) -- Bosco stomp / (Allie Young, Bessyl Duhon, Rodney Balfa) (3:02) -- Better day / (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry) (3:01) -- Long road to travel / (Lonnie Johnson) (2:19) -- The coo-coo bird / (Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley) (2:33) -- Pretty Saro / (Doug and Jack Wallin) (2:29) -- Freight train / (Elizabeth Cotten) (2:43) -- Old Joe Bone / (the New Lost City Ramblers) (1:59) -- Have a feast here tonight / (Bill Monroe and Doc Watson) (2:28) -- Freedom road / (Josh White) (2:18) -- This land is your land / (Woody Guthrie) (2:16) -- Two good men / (Woody Guthrie) (3:45) -- In the pines / (Lead Belly) (2:07) -- Irene / (Lead Belly) (2:16) -- Somebody's been fooling #1 / (Big Joe Williams) (2:49) -- Hesitation blues / (Dave Van Ronk) (2:31) -- Gonna be an engineer / (Peggy Seeger) (4:28) -- Delgadina / (Mercedez López) (2:11) -- I was standing by the bedside of a neighbor (If you see my Saviour) / (Michele Lanchester with Sweet Honey in the Rock) (3:19) -- Virgo / (Mary Lou Williams) (2:26) -- Syl-o-gism / (Mary Lou Williams) (3:27) -- We shall overcome / (the SNCC Freedom Singers with Dorothy Cotton and Pete Seeger) (2:42)

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American roots collection