Folk Music
Mostly American Folk Music. See the "World Music" category for Folk Music from other countries.
Artist		Title or Description	Format	Year	Notes
The Best of Bluegrass			CD	1999	Collection of Bluegrass standards.
The Best of Bluegrass,               Vol. One: Standards			CD	1991	Another collection of Bluegrass standards.
Best of the Bluegrass Mandolin			CD	2002
Blue Ribbon Bluegrass			CD	1993	Bluegrass from Rounder Records.
Country Capers: The New York Renaissance Band			LP	1984	Old English Country Dances.
John Denver		Poems, Prayers and Promises	CD	1971	Not really Folk, but close enough.
		Rocky Mountain High	LP	1972
		John Denver’s Greatest Hits	CD	1973
		Back Home Again	LP	1974
		Windsong	LP	1975
		Live in London	LP	1976
		Spirit	LP	1976
Dueling Banjos		Soundtrack from the film "Deliverance"	CD	1973	Traditional American folk music, arranged by Eric Weissberg.
Feuding Banjos		Bluegrass of the Southern Mountains	CD
Fire on the Fiddle			CD	2002	Collection of "country fiddle" recordings.
Flatt & Scruggs		Columbia Historic Edition   ( Recorded from 1952 - 1959 )	CD	Released 1982	Probably the most famous Bluegrass duo, ever.
		The Foggy Mountain Boys – The Complete Mercury Sessions	CD	Released 1992
		The Golden Era                  ( Recorded from 1950 - 1955 )	CD	Released 1992
		Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs  ( Compilation )	LP
Foggy Mountain Banjo		Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs with the Foggy Mountain Boys	LP	1961	Lightning-fast banjo-picking music from the South.
Bela Fleck		Day Break	CD	1987	One of the best "Progressive Bluegrass" banjo-players around today.
Front Porch Favorites		19th Century American Classics, by Wayne Erbsen	CD	1995	American Folk music from the 1800's.
David Grisman		Hot Dawg   ( with Stephane Grappelli )	CD	1979	Unique combination of Blugess and Jazz. Very good.
		Dawg Jazz/Dawg Grass	LP	1983	Dave Grisman's "Dawg Music" style of Jazz and Bluegrass on one album.
		Stephane Grappelli / David Grisman - Live	LP	1981
		Acousticity	LP	1984
The Incredible String Band		The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion	CD	1967	British Folk music from the late 1960's, combining Celtic sounds with Middle Eastern instruments.
		The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter	CD	1968
Johnny Horton		The Essential Johnny Horton, 1956 – 1960	CD	Released 1996	Traditional honky-tonk/rockabilly cowboy songs.
		The Spectacula Johnny Horton	LP	???
		Johnny Horton’s Greatest Hits	CD	Released 1987	Contains most of the history-themed songs he was known for.
The Kingston Trio		Close-Up	LP	1961	So-called "Folk Revival" music. Band formed in Palo Alto, CA in the 1950's.
Leo Kottke		6- and 12-String Guitar  ( His debut album, and best-selling )	CD	1969	Acoustic guitar, sometimes called "Progressive Folk".
		Guitar Music	CD	1981
		Essential Leo Kottke	CD	1991
		Leo Kottke 1971-1976	LP
		Mud Lark	LP	1971?
J.E. Miner’s Mountaineers,      "The Legendary Family from the Blue Ridge Mountains"			LP	1963	So-called "Old Timey" music. Lots of traditional American fiddle Folk music.
Loreena McKennitt		Elemental	CD	1985	Technically, she's not Folk, but close enough. She's Canadian, but she sings very Celtic music.
		The Visit	CD	1991
		The Mask and the Mirror	CD	1994
		The Book of Secrets	CD	1997
Bill Monroe		20th Century Masters - The Millenium Collection  ( Compilation )	CD	1999
		Bill Monroe with Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs: The Original Bluegrass Band	LP	1978
Willie Nelson		Red Headed Stranger	LP	1975	Not really Folk, but I don't have a Country section…
		Always On My Mind	LP	1982
New Orleans Stompers tells about Old Times      ( recorded in Switzerland )			CD	1991	Traditional Dixieland Jazz, recorded in Lucern, Switzerland. ( CD bought in Zurich )
O Brother, Where Art Thou?		( Soundtrack to the film )	CD	2000	Traditional American Folk music, arranged by T-Bone Burnett
O Sister!		The Women's Bluegrass Collection	CD	2001	Female Bluegrass performers.
The Shaker Gift of Song		Music of the Shakers	CD	1980	Austere yet beautiful music of the religious community of the Shakers. (Bought at a Shaker community in New Hampshire).
Old and In the Way, That High Lonesome Sound			CD	1973	Live Bluegrass with Dave Grisman, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, Peter Rowan, and Vassar Clements.
Ricky Scaggs		Bluegrass Rules!	CD	1997
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter
		Reckless Burning	CD	2002	So-called "Alternative Country", a hypnotic collection of drone-like country.
Voices From the Oregon Trail		( from the Musical, about the Oregon Trail migration )	CD	1992
Gillian Welch		Revival	CD	1996	Depression-era Folk music.
Other good Websites related to Folk Music:
http://folkindex.mse.jhu.edu/index.htm			Folk Music Index