Various Artists - American Roots Music
Palm
American Roots Music is a fabulous collection of music assembled by producers Jim Brown and Sam Pollard, Bob Dylan manager Jeff Rosen, and Palm chairman and famed music industry executive Chris Blackwell for a four-part PBS documentary of the same name. The magnificent retrospective examines the music of the pioneers of American folk, folk-rock, bluegrass, cowboy and Western music, traditional country, Delta blues, Chicago electric blues, gospel, Cajun, Zydeco, Tejano, and Native American music. One of the pleasures of this collection is hearing how complementary the songs of these seminal musicians from disparate backgrounds and geographical origins truly is -- and how much these various styles influenced and were influenced by one another. In time, American Roots Music is sure to rank with the fabled Smithsonian Folkways' Anthology of American Folk Music as one of the finer overviews of the history of American regional music. Make sure to catch the documentary when it airs, beginning October 29.
The complete list of artists featured in the collection is as follows:
Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson, B.B. King, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Bessie Smith, Bill Monroe, Bob Dylan, Bob Wills, Charley Patton, Clifton Chenier, Dennis McGee and Amede Ardoin, Doc Watson, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Edwin Hawkins, Ernest Tubb, Fisk Jubilee Singers, Flaco Jimenez, Flatt and Scruggs, Floyd Westerman, Freedom Singers, Gene Autry, Hank Williams, Howlin' Wolf, James Cotton, Jimmie Rodger, Joe Falcon and Cleoma Breaux, Keb' Mo', Kitty Wells, Leadbelly, Lefty Frizzell, Little Joe ya la Familia, Lydia Mendoza, Mahalia Jackson, Mamie Smith, Marc and Ann Savoy, Merle Travis, Mingo Saldivar, Mississippi John Hurt, Muddy Waters, Narciso Martinez, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, R. Carlos Nakai, Ralph Stanley, Robert Johnson, Robert Lockwood Jr., Robert Mirabal, Roy Acuff, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Son House, Sonny Boy Williamson, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, The Balfa Brothers, The Carter Family, The Golden Gate Quartet, The New Lost City Ramblers, The Staple Singers, The Weavers, Thomas A. Dorsey, Uncle Dave Macon, Valerio Longoria, Whistler's Jug Band, Woody Guthrie.
Jesse Ashlock
last updated:
10/08/01
