Customer Review: I borrowed this item from the Library, and found it hard to return it. We checked it out twice. Finally, I purchased the CD set. My son who is 3 and a half, loves the music. It puts us instantly in a good mood, commuting to work and school in the car. I love it as well, which is a plus. I found... more info
Customer Review: In the 1940s composer/folklorist Ruth Crawford Seeger assembled a collection of traditional American Christmas songs from Library of Congress field recordings, old manuscripts and WPA collections into a landmark book, "American Folk Songs for Christmas". There weren't the carols you hear in the... more info
Customer Review: At 75 years old, Mike is still alive and kicking very hard as the most outstanding player, historian, and analyst of Southeastern traditional music Black and white in America. He's unique in that as he likes to say, he was never very good at "book learning" and with the exception of a few out of... more info
Customer Review: Mike Seeger's has been devoted to traditional American and African American music for more than 50 years. This work catalogs many if not all of the chief southern banjo styles. It is a sharp refutation of the dogmatism that grips many old time banjo "experts" that old time banjo playing is simply... more info
Customer Review: Grisman and Hartford are old favorites of us "Smothers Brothers"-era folk but this album is so 'retro' it is almost a musical joke. John Hartford always had severe limitations as a vocalist and someone on this album is even worse! This harks back to the days when mountain folk were either "pickers"... more info
Customer Review: Whoa, there's some pretty diverse stuff here. Some is 3 finger style, some is clawhammer, a little melodic style, and some...well, honestly, I don't know what the heck some of the stuff is. There's one track which makes your speakers sound like they're trashed.....what's up with that?....and what... more info
Customer Review: I picked up this CD when I met Peggy Seeger a number of years ago. I was doing research on her mother Ruth Seeger at the time. Little did I know that ten years later my own daughter would love these songs. She dances and sings to them. Her favorite are "Mr. Rabbit", "Raccoon and Possum", "Snake... more info