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There was a new, dangerous kind of Folkways material - "Didja hear the one about the punchy that got caught in his space suit?"
The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952
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It was long afterward, in that far-away America so incomprehensible to my simple savage friends, that I read beneath the light of an electric lamp a paragraph in "Folkways," by William Graham Summer, of Yale:
White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900
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Holt hosts public television's "Folkways" program.
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Holt hosts public television's "Folkways" program.
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Still, it's not well-known that her very first album, Ramblin', cut on Folkways in 1979 for about $250, had several blues covers, including Robert Johnson's "Rambling on My Mind."
Art Levine: Lucinda Williams Brings Blues, Heartache and Protest to Washington Art Levine 2011
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She titled her second Folkways album Happy Woman Blues, and now, finally, she is coming to live out that aspiration without leaving the blues behind.
Art Levine: Lucinda Williams Brings Blues, Heartache and Protest to Washington Art Levine 2011
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Still, it's not well-known that her very first album, Ramblin', cut on Folkways in 1979 for about $250, had several blues covers, including Robert Johnson's "Rambling on My Mind."
Art Levine: Lucinda Williams Brings Blues, Heartache and Protest to Washington Art Levine 2011
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She titled her second Folkways album Happy Woman Blues, and now, finally, she is coming to live out that aspiration without leaving the blues behind.
Art Levine: Lucinda Williams Brings Blues, Heartache and Protest to Washington Art Levine 2011
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Still, it's not well-known that her very first album, Ramblin', cut on Folkways in 1979 for about $250, had several blues covers, including Robert Johnson's "Rambling on My Mind."
Art Levine: Lucinda Williams Brings Blues, Heartache and Protest to Washington Art Levine 2011
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She titled her second Folkways album Happy Woman Blues, and now, finally, she is coming to live out that aspiration without leaving the blues behind.
Art Levine: Lucinda Williams Brings Blues, Heartache and Protest to Washington Art Levine 2011
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