American Song
American Song will become the definitive source for American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music. Included are powerful recordings by artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Si Kahn, Lead Belly, Sleepy LaBeef, the New Lost City Ramblers, Otis Clay, Eddy The Chief Clearwater, Nanci Griffith, The Lilly Brothers, Merle Travis, Ma Rainey, Mahalia Jackson, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, William Bunk Johnson, Duke Ellington, Sophie Tucker, Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Sarah Vaughn, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Big Joe Williams, Memphis Jug Band, Roosevelt Sykes, Dizzy Gillespie, Chicago River Kings, Muddy Waters, Skip James, Blind Willie McTell, Lonnie Johnson, Alberta Jones, Johnny Shines, Memphis Minnie, Arthur Big Boy Crudup, Little Brother Montgomery, Speckled Red, Edith Wilson, Earl Hines, Eddie Johnson, Bobby Bradford, Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, and hundreds more.
Resource Type: Streaming Music Database
Contents: American Song will become the definitive
source for American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music.
Included are powerful recordings by artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete
Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Si Kahn, Lead Belly, Sleepy LaBeef, the New Lost
City Ramblers, Otis Clay, Eddy The Chief Clearwater, Nanci Griffith,
The Lilly Brothers, Merle Travis, Ma Rainey, Mahalia Jackson, Alberta
Hunter, Tampa Red, William Bunk Johnson, Duke Ellington, Sophie
Tucker, Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Sarah Vaughn, Cripple Clarence
Lofton, Big Joe Williams, Memphis Jug Band, Roosevelt Sykes, Dizzy
Gillespie, Chicago River Kings, Muddy Waters, Skip James, Blind Willie
McTell, Lonnie Johnson, Alberta Jones, Johnny Shines, Memphis Minnie,
Arthur Big Boy Crudup, Little Brother Montgomery, Speckled Red, Edith
Wilson, Earl Hines, Eddie Johnson, Bobby Bradford, Roscoe Mitchell,
Wadada Leo Smith, and hundreds more.
Dates of Coverage: 1900s - present
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