Jul 8, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Rant & Roll “The sound, amazingly enough, is devoid of the usual snap/crackle/pop of most early blues recordings.” | Read More at The...
Jul 1, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
“Whilst we’ve repeatedly featured improvised music here on Cyclic Defrost usually it’s occurring between humans. This piece is a little different.” | Read More at Cyclic...
Jun 30, 2026 | No Depression, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
BEST OF BLUES: Smithsonian Folkways Classics, Swamp Dogg, and Joe Krown “Additionally, Smithsonian Folkways has assembled an impressive blues collection that features well-known blues artists performing material that may be unfamiliar to some blues fans.” ...
Jun 23, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
LA Look at the Present and Distant Past Via Blues Recordings Over 103 Years “Like musical styles, record formats can have cycles of desirability or even fashionability.” | Read More at...
Jun 23, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Jim Nollman’s “The 47 Whale Raga” “An avant-garde sound artist, guitarist, naturalist, author and lifelong innovator in interspecies communication, Nollman stakes out common ground between experimental art and environmental...
Jun 19, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Review: Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings “It’s just that Waters helped remake the blues into a thoroughly urban form that didn’t plainly connect to the blues’ rural roots.” | Read More at Psychotic...
Jun 19, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Various Artists, Classic Blues From Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Read More at Soul...
Jun 15, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
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Jun 15, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Classic Blues “The blues nerd in me greatly appreciates the inclusion of a two-sided, three-page foldout with historical notes and references for each of the tracks too.” | Read More at Philly...
Jun 12, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
The Blues Redux “Songs from a bygone era celebration joy, pain, and…boll weevils??” | Read More at Houston...
May 22, 2026 | Ma Rainey - Results, No Depression, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
“This week was a good one for the blues.” | Read More at No...
May 18, 2026 | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - Results
Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways Gets First Vinyl Reissue “Since its 2003 release, this 26-track collection has been one of Folkways’ best-selling CDs, spanning songs recorded over a half-century, from 1942 to 1992.” | Read More at Grateful...
