Oct 21, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Smithsonian Folkways Big Mama Thornton Read More at Soul...
Oct 9, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Orcas’ Greatest Hits: The first interspecies album between human and orca “PNW-based naturalist and abstract sound artist Jim Nollman has lived anything but a traditional life, and he has the recordings to prove it.” | Read More at Seattle...
Oct 5, 2026 | No Depression, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Bonus Tracks: Michael Hurley “Michael Hurley’s debut LP will get the reissue treatment via Smithsonian Folkways.” | Read More at No...
Oct 4, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Michael Hurley, “The Werewolf Song” “Remarkable because it is a song of some rare depth, full of disturbing imagery, set to a discordant accompaniment and sung in a way that, after one listen, can never be forgotten.” | Read More at Americana...
Oct 1, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
After Decades of Playing Music with Animals, Jim Nollman Shares His Insights on Interspecies Communication “Jim Nollman never felt that he had any great talent as a guitar player or singer.” | Read More at Folk...
Sep 29, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Michael Hurley’s 1964 Debut Album First Songs to be reissued on vinyl “As many of you know, Michael Hurley died in April last year at the age of 83.” | Read More at...
Sep 23, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
ALBUM REVIEW: Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings – Vinyl “Smithsonian Folkways has been the ultimate vault for American roots music since 1948, when founder Moses Asch started capturing raw, unvarnished sounds that mainstream labels...
Sep 18, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Various Artists: Classic Blues From Smithsonian Folkways Recordings “From the East Coast and the Delta to the Southwest, St Louis and Chicago, it showcases the genre’s rich diversity through field recordings, studio sessions, radio transcriptions and live...
Aug 27, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
His work was dismissed by scientists, but Jim Nollman’s playing was admired by orcas for years. Now he’s releasing an album of oceanic field recordings that capture his efforts “Jim Nollman once wanted to be the next Eric Clapton. Instead, his guitar playing...
Aug 26, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
An Art-Statesman’s Heel Turn—and Other Art World Matters “Plus, Laurie Simmons does Zyn, while Jim Nollman makes art with orcas.” | Read More at...
Aug 11, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Favoriting Out Here in the Field with Amanda: Playlist from August 10, 2026 “Musician, sound artist, and environmentalist Jim Nollman has spent his fifty-year career conversing with animals through music.” | Read More at...
Aug 11, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
“They would come in with a chord change”: Composer Jim Nollman has collaborated with turkeys, kangaroo rats and whales. Now he’s dropping “Orcas’ Greatest Hits” “Staff writer Sascha Pare spoke with musical composer and sound...
Aug 11, 2026 | BBC, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Turkish psychedelia and whale song blues “Lopa Kothari presents the best in global folk and roots-based music, with Turkish psychedelia from BaBa ZuLa and sound artist Jim Nollman duetting the blues with his local orcas.” | Read More at...
Aug 6, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Jim Nollman: “Whales liked it best if we got into a really good groove” “US artist Jim Nollman exists somewhere between, art, music and acoustic ecology.” | Read More at Cyclic...
Jul 31, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Jim Nollman: The Man Who Jams With Orcas “The 1960s gave us many artistic firsts from pop and performance art to psychedelic rock and free jazz to interspecies music-making between humans and whales.” | Read More at...
