Folk

Periodicals

• People’s Songs
• A history of Sing Out! magazine
• Chooog
• Caravan
• Gardyloo
• Broadside
• Newport Folk Festival programs

Anthology of American Folk Music (Folkways, 1952)

• SF reissue: tracklist, liner notes (reissue and original)
• Lyrics: vol. 1;
• Harry Smith
  • Grammy Chairman’s merit award
  • Smithsonian Folkways remembers Harry Smith
• The Evolution of Records: From Shellac to Vinyl (Grays)
• Diskers Ready New Plans (Billboard, April 25, 1942)
• My Old Weird America

Legends of Folk: The Village Scene (PBS)

AUNT MOLLY JACKSON

• Aunt Molly Jackson (UVA website)
• NYU professor Mary Barnicle’s papers; Mary Barnicle and Tillman Cadle Collection (1935-55) at ETSU

ALAN LOMAX

• Oral history (from American Roots Music)
• The Song Hunter (PBS POV documentary)
• Alan Lomax’s Massive Archive Goes Online (pbs, 2012)
• Alan Lomax Collection at Library of Congress online
• Lomax online archive
• Alan Lomax, Beyonce, and Sampling Sounds from the Jim Crow South (genius.com, 4/2016)

LEAD BELLY

• Lead Belly and Lomax chronology
• Lead Belly Foundation
• Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie on WNYC, 1940, produced by Henrietta Yurchenko (Down Home Radio Show)
• “Bad Nigger Makes Good Minstrel” (Life, 4/19/1937)
• Film
  • March of Time newsreel, early 1935 (excerpt)
  • “Goodnight Irene,” March/April 1935, Wilton, CT (w/John Lomax); copyright registration
  • Three songs from 1945 

WOODY GUTHRIE

• Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives
• Archive of American Folk Song (correspondence 1940-50, timeline, biography) (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
• Song copyright registrations (BMI)
• Woody Guthrie, The Asch Recordings vol. 1-4 (1940s) (Smithsonian Global Sound–Wesleyan access only)
• Woody Guthrie’s fan letter to John Cage (1947)
  • Recording of Maro Ajemian performing Amores
• Guthrie and Fred Trump (New Yorker, 2018)
  • “Beach Haven Ain’t My Home“
• This Land is Your Land: The Story Behind America’s Best-Known Protest Song (Mental Floss, February 23, 2020)
• Film
  • “East Virginia Blues/In Old Virginny” (8:05), “John Henry” (with Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee) (9:25), from Pete Seeger’s  To Hear Your Banjo Play, 1946
    
  • 1945?

PETE SEEGER

• Pete Seeger appreciation page
• Almanac House (Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie)
• Pete Seeger’s New York Roots (NYT, 6/16/2015)
• To Hear Your Banjo Play (1946 documentary)
• The Weavers
  • “Tzena, Tzena” and “Goodnight Irene”
    • “Tzena Tzena” released (Billboard, 1950: June 8; June 24)
      • entered pop charts July 1, 1950
    • #2 pop; “Goodnight Irene” #5 pop (July 29)
    • “Goodnight Irene” #1 pop; “Tzena Tzena” #5 pop (Aug. 19)
    • “Goodnight Irene” #1 pop (Nov. 11); dropped to #2 (Nov. 18)
  • Performing “Goodnight Irene“
  • “If I Had a Hammer” (original version 1949?)
• Wasn’t That a Time (1961 documentary)
• Seeger’s testimony before HUAC in 1955 (transcript excerpt); full transcript (p. 2447)
• Rainbow Quest (tv show)
  • Episode list
  • Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
  • Mississippi John Hurt, “Spike Driver Blues“
  • Judy Collins
• clearwater.org

Dave van Ronk/Paul Clayton

• Paul Clayton, Fo’c’sle Songs and Chanties
• Dave Van Ronk album cover locations and old photos
• Dave Van Ronk discography
• Dave van Ronk, Ballads, Blues, and a Spiritual (1st Folkways LP)
• Dave Van Ronk, Dave van Ronk Sings (2nd Folkways LP)
• Terri Thal (Dave Van Ronk’s ex-wife) on Inside Llewyn Davis (12/13/2013 VV)

New Lost City Ramblers

• at Alan Lomax’s W. 3rd St. apartment in Greenwich Village (1961)
• Always Been a Rambler trailer
• On Rainbow Quest (Intro: 16:30)

BOB DYLAN

JOAN BAEZ and FAMILY

• Bio at joanbaez.com
• Bob Gibson with guest Joan Baez, “We Are Crossing the Jordan River” (Newport Folk Festival 1959)
• BBC Concert, London (1965)
• Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound (PBS, American Masters)
  • On Dylan and the 1965 tour
  • arrested at 1967 Oakland draft induction center sit-in (No Greater Cause)
  • “Joan Baez’s Fighting Side” (Rolling Stone, 4/5/2017)
• Mimi Baez Farina
  • with Richard Farina (Rainbow Quest, 2/2/1966)
  • with Joan at Sing Sing Prison (1973)

CAROLYN HESTER

• “Once I Had a Sweetheart” (1963, Australia)
• “The Praties They Grow Small” (1963)

BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE

• “The Creative Person” ft. Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and more (1965)
• PETE SEEGER’S RAINBOW QUEST W BUFFY ST. MARIE – SHOW # 13N SEPTEMBER 1966
• Photos in Greenwich Village (Alamy)

JONI MITCHELL

• Joni Mitchell, Dave Van Ronk (Let’s Sing Out, Canadian TV, 1965-66)
• “Both Sides Now” (Mama Cass tv show, 1969); Judy Collins, 1969
• BBC In Concert (orig. broadcast October 9, 1970)
  • “Big Yellow Taxi“
  • “Both Sides Now“
• “Coyote” (Last Waltz, 1976)
• jonimitchell.com (Chronology)

NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL

• 1st Newport Folk Festival program (1959)
• Newport Folk Festival schedules, photos
• A Letter Home from the Festival (1963)
• Guitarist Mike Bloomfield’s account of Newport 1965

VENUES

• Village Barn (country music, 1930-67)
• Gerdes Folk City
  • Gerdes Folk City, 1961
  • folkcityatfifty.com
• Gaslight
  • Al Aronowitz Remembers the Gaslight (folkcityatfifty.com)
• Folk City exhibit at Museum of the City of New York (2015)
• Folklore Center
  • Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center (1989)
  • NYT profile of Izzy Young (2016)

MISC

• Ballads, Blues, and Bluesgrass
  • Roscoe Holbomb at Alan Lomax’s W. 3rd St. apartment (1961)
• podcasts on Folkways Records and artists
• Folk Music, Communism, and the Red Scare as a Part of the American Landscape, Christine A. Spivey (Loyola U. Student Historical Journal, 1996-97)
• peterpaulandmary.com
• Tom Paxton: “Buy a Gun for your Son” (on Rainbow Quest)
• Jean Ritchie
• David Gahr photographs
• House of the Rising Sun
• Robert Johnson
  • Alleged video of Robert Johnson (probably shot in 1942)