Jake Head Boogie by Lightnin' Hopkins, Modern Records/Ace
: [blues, boogie, gospel and piano]
Blues in the Mississippi Night by Various Artists, Rykodisc
The Great Depression: American Music in the '30s by Various Artists, Columbia Legacy
Mississippi Delta Blues: Blow My Blues Away, vol. 1 & 2 by Various Artist, Arhoolie
Houston Gold by Lightnin' Hopkins, Blue Moon/TKO Magnum
Blue Lightnin' by Lightnin' Hopkins, Jewel Records
News and the Blues by Various Artists, Columbia
Blues Singer 1932-1936 by Josh White, Columbia Legacy
Prison Work Songs by Various Artist, Arhoolie
Angola Prisoners' Blues by Various Artist, Arhoolie
WESTERN SWING
Kings of Western Swing by Various Artists, Charly
: [two disks of rare western swing tracks]
Okeh Western Swing by Various Artists, CBS Special Products
Wanderers Swing: Texas Dance Hall Music by Various Artists, Interstate Music Ltd.
Cat'n Around by Various Artists, Krazy Kat/Interstate Music Ltd.
Western Swing on the Radio by Various Artists, Interstate Music Ltd.
Live at Sail'n by Bob Miekle's Bearcats, Arhoolie (cassette)
TEJANO
Borderlands: From Conjunto to Chicken Scratch by Various Artists, Smithsonian Folkways
Narciso Martinez, Arhoolie
Las Hermanas Mendoza by Juanita and Maria Mendoza, Arhoolie
El Indio by Isidro Lopez, Arhoolie
South Texas Polka Party by Various Artist, Arhoolie
CZECH and GERMAN
Texas Czech Bands: Historic Recordings 1928 - 1953 by Various Artists, Arhoolie
Texas Bohemia by Various Artists, Trikont
South Texas Swing by Adolph Hofner, Arhoolie
CAJUN
The Fiddle King of Cajun Swing by Harry Choates, Arhoolie
Cajun and Creole Masters by Various Artists, Music of the World
Folksongs of the Louisiana Acadians by Various Artists, Arhoolie
Cajun Music Pioneer by Joe Falcon, Arhoolie
Fred's Hot Step by Donald Thiodeaux and Cajun Fever, Arhoolie
ZYDECO
Boozoo Chavis: The Lake Charles Atomic Bomb by Boozoo Chavis, Rounder
Mardi Gras by Queen Ida, GNP/Crescendo Records
APPALACHIAN
The Bristol Sessions by Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family and others, Country Music Foundation
Family Songs and Stories by Doug and Jack Wallin, Smithsonian Folkways
Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, KOCH
Pioneer of the Bluegrass Banjo by Snuffy Jenkins, Arhoolie
AFRICAN AMERICAN
Texas: Black Country Dance Music (1927-1935) by Various Artists, Document
Been in the Storm So Long: Spirituals, Folk Tales and Children's Games from John's Island, South Carolina by Various Artists, Smithsonian Folkways
Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through its Songs by Various Artists, Smithsonian Folkways
CARIBBEAN
Calypsos from Trinidad: Politics, Intrigue and Violence in the 1930s by Various Artists, Arhoolie
Martinique: Au Bal (Franco-Creole Biguines) by Various Artists, Arhoolie
NATIVE AMERICAN
Old Time O'odham Fiddle Music by Gu-Achi Fiddlers, Canyon
JAZZ
Satchmo the Great by Louis Armstrong (with interview by Edward R. Murrow), Columbia Legacy
Memphis Town by Various Artists, Memphis Archives
R&B
Lightning and Thunder by The Golden Eagles featuring Monk Boudreaux, Rounder
Chess New Orleans by Various Artists, Chess/MCA
Collector's Choice by Professor Longhair, others, Rounder
The Hustler by Bee Houston, Arhoolie
GENERAL REGIONAL
The World of Crazy Cajun by Various Artists, Edsel Records
: [an unusual mix from the Gulf Coast
including Delbert McClinton, T-Bone Walker, Roy Head and Papa Link Davis]
Live at Dancetown USA by George Jones, Interstate Music Ltd.
Live at Gilley's by Bobby Bare, Q Records/Atlantic
The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, Published by the University of North Carlina Press
The Texas Mexican Conjunto: History of a Working Class Music by Manuel Pena, University of Texas Press
Lydia Mendoza: A Family Autobiography by Chris Srachwitz with James Nicolopulos, Arte Publico Press
San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Wills by Charles R. Townsend, University of Illinois Press
Living Texas Blues by Alan Govenar, Dallas Museum of Art
The Life and Legacy of Leadbelly by Charles Wolff and Kip Lornell, Harper Collins
Seeds of a Man by Woodie Guthrie, E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc
With Fiddle and Well-Rosined Bow: Old Time Fiddling in Alabama by Joyce H. Cauthen
Frontier Fiddler: The Life of a Northern Arizona Pioneer by Kenner C. Kartchner, University of Arizona Press
Singing Cowboys and All That Jazz: A Short History of Popular Music in Oklahoma by William W. Savage, Jr., University of Oklahoma Press
Jimmie Rodgers by Nolan Porterfield, University of Illinois Press
Milton Brown and the Founding of Western Swing by Cary Ginell, University of Illinois Press
Bob Wills: Hubbin' It by Ruth Sheldon, Country Music Foundation Press
The Country Blues by Samuel B. Charters, Da Capo
Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians by Peter Guralnick, Harper Perennial
Will Rogers: The Man and His Times by Richard M. Ketchum, Touchstone/Simon and Schuster
Pastures of Plenty: A Self Portrait by Woody Guthrie (with notes by Dave Marsh), Harper Perennial
Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie, Plume
Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound by Robert Cantwell, Da Capo Press, NY
Rythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music of the American South by Stanley Booth, Vintage
Never Met a Man I Didn't Like: The Life and Writings of Will Rogers, Joseph H. Carter, Avon Books
Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine published by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
