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Jake has moved!

Oh man, Smithsonian’s Folkways label and American History Museum are releasing Robert ‘Mack’ McCormick’s tapes, research and writings as part of Folkways’ 75th anniversary! The Monster unleashed!

washingtonpost.com/entertainme

The Washington Post · He spent a lifetime collecting the blues. The Smithsonian listened.By Geoff Edgers
#blues#Smithsonian#Folkways
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Ned Raggett (has moved!)

So yesterday I shared the news about the Friends of #Folkways effort -- $5 a month, you can stream everything in their catalog and affiliated labels, folkways.si.edu/friends-of-fol for more -- and today I'm currently tripping out on this amazingly earnest 1958 release about the sounds of the early satellites. This cover art is pure @quartzcity among others. #music folkways.si.edu/voices-of-the-

The cover of the 1958 Folkways release _Voices of the Satellites!_, featuring a white dot on a grey background with a curve representing the dot's orbit. Credits for the album emerges as spokes from the white dot, including the cover design credit for Ronald Clyne.
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Gygesringtone

It's the second #MusicWomenWednesday and I've been looking forward to this since last week!

Gonna go back a little ways in time this week to some of the greats that helped shaped American music

Let's start this off right, with Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Didn't it Rain

youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZ

Mattie May Thomas: No Mo Freedom

youtube.com/watch?v=rZsBm2KYD8

And last, Ola Belle Reed: High on a Mountain

youtube.com/watch?v=JfpQt78NFC

YouTubeSister Rosetta Tharpe- "Didn't It Rain?" Live 1964 (Reelin' In The Years Archive)By ReelinInTheYears66
#Blues#Bluegrass#Folk
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Northumbrian Stories

Pancakes have been made and consumed, although I'm one of those people who does Pancake Day without doing Lent, because I'm non-religious but I just like sweet food. Although I do like the folk tradition too!

A record of Northumbrian folkways collected in the 1920s claims that pancakes are eaten here on Shrove Tuesday, "and always have been", a bold claim that I love for what it says about folk memory.

Other customs for the day included the ringing of the "Pancake Bell"(otherwise known as the Shriving Bell), a holiday for apprentices, and the playing of football matches - one of which is still famously played on the Pastures at Alnwick on Shrove Tuesday.

#Folklore #Folkways #PancakeDay #ShroveTuesday #Northumberland #FolkHistory @folklore

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Northumbrian Stories

Imbolc. St Brigid's Day. 1st of February.

Imbolc is recorded in early medieval Irish sources and was also historically celebrated in Scotland and the Isle of Man. It's generally believed that the origin is older, pre-Christian, and the date is important to many modern pagans as the start of spring. It's also the feast day of St Brigid, mother saint of Ireland, and traditions included the weaving of Brigid's Crosses from rushes. Many believe that Brigid is a Christianised version of a pre-Christian goddess, although she is also recorded as a real historic figure who founded the Abbey of Kildare. It may be that two figures have been conflated.

Imbolc is not recorded as ever being celebrated here in Northumberland, but the reasons for celebrating it as an agricultural festival would have been just as important here. The season for sowing, the start of the lambing, the return of the light, and the promise of warmer, less lean days to come.

Close-up of yellow aconites growing on a bank with other plants sprouting between them. The sun is on them, making them glow lemon-yellow, and their petals are as wide as they can go.
A snowdrop bank in woodland. A mass of white snowdrops growing through a carpet of last year's leaves. The sun is shining on them, and the sky through the trees at the top of the bank is blue.
A glimpse of a wide, winding river, reflecting the blue of the sky. The banks are the pale brown of winter grasses, with bare trees growing along them. In the foreground is the great grey trunk of an old beech tree.
A sunny landscape over green grass fields to gently rolling hills beyond, with winter trees scattered through the scene.
#Imbolc#SaintBrigid#StBrigidsDay
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Bob Stepno

Seeing an ad announcing that the venerable #Folkways Records (#SmithsonianFolkways these days) is looking for someone with "DSP" experience, which I'm just enough of a geek to realize couldn't mean Digital Signal Processor, but I'm also nostalgic about pre-commercialism Usenet and know nothing about digital marketing and online ad sales...
Found an alternative DSP for Folkways to look at:

youtu.be/0Sg8AeNy_2g

And for my own grudging edification:
musicgateway.com/blog/music-in

YouTubeDevi Sri Prasad Musical Hits | #HBDDeviSriPrasad | Aditya MusicBy Aditya Music
Continued thread
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jesse jarnow

#nowplaying - #peteseeger put out so many LPs on #folkways that many are analogous to semi-casual bandcamp drops. side A of "the rainbow quest" from 1960 is pete in one of my favorite tender/mellow modes, including the 1st recording of "where have all the flowers gone," except all the songs are medlied together as choruses/fragments, intended for somber collegiate singalongs, i suspect. side B is more topical/newsy, bringing #ewanmaccoll / #peggyseeger songs to american ears.

Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest LP
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jesse jarnow

#nowplaying - resuming going through a giant pile of #peteseeger & #folkways records i inherited via @4CPComics@twitter.com. especially enjoying pete's lullabies on side A & adelaide van wey's 3 with zither. i don't often endorse discogs over scholarly discographies, but this is pretty much useless, despite dunaway's wonderful seeger bio. incomplete track lists, no credits for collaborators, zero attempt to establish session dates, much oy. on the other hand, A+ sticker placement.

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