Crowley County Combined Library

Presents a history of British folk-music preservation and revival, and shows how young songwriters and musicians in the 1960s combined new sounds with the spirit and traditions of the old.

From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German,...

A fictionalized account of how an eleven-year-old girl, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, saved to buy her first guitar and composed the popular folksong, "Freight Train."

"When a musician's new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish nationalists' ire, and it's up to Bruno to track down the extremists who seem ready to take deadly measures, in another delightful installment of the internationally acclaimed series featuring Bruno, Chief of Police. Les Troubadours, a folk music group that Bruno has long supported, go viral with their new number, "Song for Catalonia," when the Spanish...

Discusses the influence various native American and foreign traditions and contemporary musicians have had on the development of American folk music.

Tom Glazer, one or the country's foremost balladeers, has gathered songs, music for piano and guitar, and fingerplays into a delightfully illustrated book.