Traditional Music- North America

Indigenous north American

powwow

musicians:

black bear

mardi gras Indian tradition:

The Wild Tchoupitoulas

Smithsonian folkways albums:

-Anthology of North American Indian and Eskimo Music

-American Indian Dances

-songs and dances of the great lakes Indians

-eskimo songs from Alaska

-The Eskimos of Hudson Bay and Alaska

-music of the guich'in Indians of Alaska

-Seneca social dance music

-haida: Indian music of the pacific northwest

-Kwakiutl: Indian music of the pacific northwest

-healing songs of the americn Indians

-music of the plains apache

-music of the algokians: woodland Indians: cree, Montagnais, Naskapi

-music of the pawnee 

-Songs and Dances of the Flathead Indians

-songs of the Chippewa, vol.1: Minnesota Chippewa game and social dance songs

-kiowa (Kenneth anquoe)

-songs of the seminole Indians of florida

-hopi katcina songs and six songs by hopi chanters

-music of the Sioux and the Navajo

-music of the American Indians of the southwest

-Indian Music of the Canadian Plains

-Indian Music of the Pacific Northwest Coast

-Nootka Indian Music of the Pacific North West Coast

-Kiowa Peyote Meeting

Canada

alan lomax (Columbia records)

-world library of folk & primitve music: Canada (album)

Smithsonian folkways albums:

-folk songs of Ontario

-folk music from nova scotia

-Maritime Folk Songs: from the Collection of Helen Creighton

-Folksongs of Saskatchewan

-alan mills: folk songs of newfoundland

french Canada & Quebec:

Smithsonian folkways album:

-Helene Baillargeon and alan mills-Songs of French Canada

-Helene Baillargeon and alan mills-chansons d'acedie (songs of acadia)

-Aimé Gagné-French Canadian Country Dances

-Jacques labrecque- folk songs of France and French Canada

-songs and dances of quebec

Pascal Gemme & Mario Loiselle:

 – Violon Du Québec (buda records-musique du monde album 2013)

cape Breton

fiddling

Smithsonian folkways album:

-Songs from Cape Breton Island

newfoundland fiddling

usa

youtube channels:

George Williams(@georgewilliams4392):

channel whith animated explanations of how to dance English, Scottish and American country & contra dances

joel cohen/the boston camerata

Old Virginia: Fiddle Tunes of David Russell Hamblen

by Nikos Pappas

john phillip sousa marches

alan lomax archive:

jean Ritchie:

-Singing the Traditional Songs of Her Kentucky Mountain Family (Elektra records album)

Smithsonian folkways albums:

-John Allison: Witches and War-Whoops: Early New England Ballads

-Wallace House: Ballads of the Revolution 1767-1781

Pete Seeger: 

-Frontier Ballads

-Champlain Valley Songs

-American favourite ballads vol. 1-4

-American industrial balladds

Hermes Nye: 

-Ballads of the Civil War

Anne Grimes: 

-Ohio State Ballads

-Fine Times at Our House: Traditional Music of Indiana: Ballads, Fiddle Tunes, Songs

-Mike Seeger: 

-Tipple, Loom & Rail: Songs of the Industrialization of the South

paul van Arsdale: 

-dulcimer heritage: traditional hammered dulcimer from new York state

-Old Grey Goose: Maine Country Dance Music and Song

music from the south series:

-Various Artists: Music from the South, Vol. 1: Country Brass Bands

-Horace Sprott Music from the South, Vol. 2: Horace Sprott, 1

-Horace Sprott Music from the South, Vol. 3: Horace Sprott, 2

-Horace Sprott Music from the South, Vol. 4: Horace Sprott, 3

-Various Artists: Music from the South, Vol. 5: Song, Play, and Dance

-Various Artists: Music from the South, Vol. 6: Elder Songsters, 1

-Various Artists: Music from the South, Vol. 7: Elder Songsters, 2

-Various Artists: Music from the South, Vol. 8: Young Songsters

-Various Artists: Music from the South, Vol. 9: Song and Worship

-Various Artists: Music from the South, Vol. 10: Been Here and Gone

virginia traditions:

-ballads from british tradition

-western piedmont blues

-native virginia ballads and songs

-blue ridge piano styles

-tidewater blues

-virginia work songs

-southwest virginia blues

-paul clayton: folksongs and ballads of virginia

-Virginia Mountain Boys, Vol. 1- 4

-Ballads and Songs of the Blue Ridge Mountains: Persistence and Change

-Bluegrass From the Blue Ridge: Country Band Music of Virginia

-Virginia Mountain Boys The Virginia Mountain Boys, Vol. 2: Bluegrass String Band

-Cullen galyean and bobby Harrison: let me fall old time bluegrass from the virginia north Carolina border

-betty smith: songs traditionally sung in north Carolina

-the popping family of sumter south Carolina

-the jug bands

-square dances

-Cumberland mountain folksongs

-spirituals with dock reed and vera hall

-Hermes nye: Texas folksongs

-joan O'Bryant: folksongs and ballads of Texas

-logan English: Kentucky folksongs and ballads

-Ritchie family of Kentucky

-skiffle bands

-negro folk music of alabama, vol.1:secular music

-negro folk music of alabama, vol.2:religious music

-Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Vol. 3: Rich Amerson--1

-Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Vol. 4: Rich Amerson--2

-Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Vol. 5: Spirituals Dock Reed and Vera Hall Ward

-Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Vol. 6: Ring Game Songs and Others

-children's songs and games from the southern mountains

-prison worksongs

-Negro Prison Camp Worksongs

-slave shout songs from the coast of georgia

-sacred steel- traditional sacred African American steel guitar music from florida

-Junkanoo Band - Key West

-cajun songs from Louisiana

music of new orleans:

-music of the streets: music of mardi gras

-music of the eureka brass band

-music of the dance halls

-the birth of jazz

-new orleans jazz: the flowering

old time/blue grass:

gid tanner & the skillet lickers 

riley puckett

fiddlin' john carson 

the Georgia yellow hammers

tommy jarrell

wade ward

kyle creed

albert hash

doc Watson & family

the Hammons family

j. p. Farley

lee sexton

Frank proffitt

uncle dave macon

the McGee brothers

Thomas Maupin

fiddlin' Arthur smith

Charlie acuff

the roan mountain hilltoppers

dock boggs

g.b. grayson

bascom lamar Lunsford

roscoe Holcomb

matokie slaughter

earle Scruggs & lester flatt

bill Monroe

louvin brothers

Stanley brothers

gospel:

frisk jubilee singers

blind willie johnson

mahalia Jackson

vera hall

five blind boys of alabama

soul stirrers

the caravans

the mighty clouds of joy

sister rosetta Tharpe

revered gary davis

the dixie hummingbirds

Albertina walker

clara ward and the famous ward singers

james Cleveland

lou rawls

Gatemouth moore

the pilgrim travelers

the sounds of blackness

soul liberation

dionne warwick

the voices of heaven choir

new York community choir

the missionary quintet

Inez Andrews

walter arites with the paul johnson orchestra and chorus

Houston interdenominational choir

fountain of life joy choir

the fantastic violinaires

the loving sisters

mildren clark and the melody aires

timothy wright & the celestial choir of Washington temple

betty perkins

sweet spirit

pastor clay evans and the fellowship missionary Baptist church

the clark sisters

east st. louis gospelettes

Thomas l. walker and the tlw ensemble

the mackintosh country shouters

early recorded blues:

w.c. handy

jim Jackson

gus cannon and his jug stompers

blind lemon Jefferson

Mississippi john hurt

blind willie johnson

Charlie patton

tommy johnson

Mississippi sheiks

Robert johnson

blind willie mctell

bukka white

bo carter

Minnie ripperton

blind blake

barbecue bob

son house

leadbelly

Elizabeth cotten

mance lipscomb

Memphis jug band

furry lewis

Lucille bogan

ma rainey

etta baker

Bessie smith

Ida cox

Robert petway

sister rosetta Tharpe

reverend gary davis

Mississippi fred McDowell

big joe Williams

blind boy fuller

big bill broonzy

sam chatmon

belton Sutherland

clyde maxwell

brownie mcghee

scrapper Blackwell and leroy carr

tampa red

sonny boy Williamson I

Lonnie Johnson

t bone walker

sleepy john estes

Arthur cudrup

skip james

r.l. burnside

cajun & zydeco:

bureaux freres

amedes ardoin

joe and cleoma falcon

sady Courville

iry LeJeune

aldus roger & the Lafayette playboys

Clifton chenier

Michael Doucet and the band beausoleil

the balfa brothers

harry choates

d. l. menard

gladius Thibodeaux

louis "vinesse" LeJeune

dewey balfa

Zachary Richard

dennis McGee

bois sec ardoin

canary Fontenot

Smithsonian folkways albums:

-cajun home music

-zydeco champs

-cajun home music

-Louisiana creol music

-Richard Fontenot: cajun country guitar

traditional jazz

websites:

jazz fuel:

https://jazzfuel.com/

compilation albums:

Smithsonian folkways albums:

various artists Jazz, Vol. 1: South

Various Artists Jazz, Vol. 2: The Blues

Various Artists Jazz, Vol. 3: New Orleans

Various Artists Jazz, Vol. 4: Jazz Singers

Various Artists Jazz, Vol. 5: Chicago 1

Various Artists Jazz, Vol. 6: Chicago, No.2 (Alternate)

Various Artists Jazz, Vol. 7: New York (1922-1934)

Various Artists Jazz, Vol. 8: Big Bands Before 1935

Various Artists Jazz, Vol. 9: Piano

Various Artists Jazz, Vol. 10: Boogie Woogie and Jump and Kansas City

Various Artists Jazz, Vol. 11: Addenda

ragtime:

scott Joplin

james scott

joseph kamb

mary aufderheide

eubie blake

George Botsford

james reese Europe

w.c. handy

bob Roberts

Smithsonian folkways albums:

David a. jansen: Rip-Roaring Ragtime

Joseph Lamb: A Study in Classic Ragtime

Ann Charters: Essay in Ragtime: Ragtime Piano Classics

early jazz/dixieland:

jelly roll Morton

king oliver

the original Dixieland jass band

james reese Europe

w.c. handy

louis Armstrong

bix Beiderbecke

louis Armstrong hot 5s & hot 7s

Sydney Bechet

Doc Evans

duke ellington

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band

stride:

James P. Johnson

Willie "the Lion" Smith

Fats Waller

Luckey Roberts

Mary Lou Williams

boogie woogie:

Pete Johnson

Albert Ammons

Meade Lux Lewis

Pinetop Smith

Jimmy Yancey

Cripple Clarence Lofton

Walter Roland

Hadda Brooks

Winifred Atwell

Maurice Rocco

Martha Davis

Freddie Slack

Hazel Scott

Katie Webster