Folk & World – Music That Tells a Story

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Folk & World – Music That Tells a Story

Looking for authentic sounds that carry history and heart? Our Folk & World section brings together traditional music from the US, UK, Europe, Africa, and beyond – songs shaped by people, places, and time.

From Celtic shores to Latin landscapes

Discover Woody Guthrie, Fairport Convention, Carlos Núñez, Miriam Makeba and more – artists who gave voice to tradition and culture.

Listen globally. Feel deeply.

Shop folk and world music on CD and vinyl – exclusively at Bear Family Records, your destination for music with roots.

Folk & World – Music That Tells a Story Looking for authentic sounds that carry history and heart? Our Folk & World section brings together traditional music from the US, UK, Europe,... read more »
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Folk & World – Music That Tells a Story

Folk & World – Music That Tells a Story

Looking for authentic sounds that carry history and heart? Our Folk & World section brings together traditional music from the US, UK, Europe, Africa, and beyond – songs shaped by people, places, and time.

From Celtic shores to Latin landscapes

Discover Woody Guthrie, Fairport Convention, Carlos Núñez, Miriam Makeba and more – artists who gave voice to tradition and culture.

Listen globally. Feel deeply.

Shop folk and world music on CD and vinyl – exclusively at Bear Family Records, your destination for music with roots.

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Hawaiian Songs (CD)
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(Sam Sam Muisic) 11 tracks Eddy King has been a singer and musical jack-of-all-trades for many years. He became famous with his group Papaya. On his other album "Indo Rock For Everyone" he shows that indo rock music is timeless and...
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Ear To The Ground (CD)
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(Smithsonian Folkways Records) 23 tracks, digisleeve - Malvina Reynolds, the renowned songwriter and activist for social justice and environmentalism, sings some of her most famous songs in this compilation of studio and live recordings...
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Muscle Shoals Sessions (CD)
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(Ramasound Records) 6 tracks Charlotta Kerbs & The Strays is a band formed by Finnish-Swedish singer, songwriter and producer Charlotta Kerbs and American producer, bassist and songwriter Darrell Craig Harris (Cirque Du Soleil, Billy...
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(Must Have Music) 15 tracks, digipack 15 Songs of Peace, Love & Understanding Matthews Southern Comfort's interpretations of songs performed at the Woodstock Festival. Cover versions of songs by, among others: The Who, Santana, C.C.R.,...
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Okemah Rising (CD)
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(Dummy Luck Music) 10 tracks, digipack. "Okemah Rising" is the second installment of the Woody Guthrie/Dropkick Murphys collaboration. While the goal of "This Machine Still Kills Fascists" was to raise awareness, "Okemah Rising" aims to...
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You're The One (CD)
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(Nonesuch) 12 tracks, digisleeve. Freshly awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her first opera, "Omar," Rhiannon Giddens will release her third studio album in August 2023.The new album from the Grammy Award-winning singer,...
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(Port O guese) 10 tracks - digipack Swingin', bluesin' jungle exotica Hawaiian sound mix instrumentals - You must listen to this! It's hust great! (Bear Family Records)
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Excavated Shellac - An Alternate History Of The World's Music (4-CD)
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(Dust To Digital) 100 tracks, includes a 184-page book with extensive liner notes and illustrations. This collection illuminates music that is often invisible in today's world - the incredible world of global recordings that are not...
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Beginnings (CD)
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Gordon Lightfoot At Royal Albert Hall (2-CD)
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(Linus) 26 tracks After 50 years of hit making and with international album sales well into the multi-millions, Gordon Lightfoot is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time. Inducted into the Songwriter's...
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Zombie Jamboree - Caribbean Rhythm On Shellac (LP)
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(Doghouse & Bone Records) 14 tracks - These obscure shellac 78T have managed to survive some 70 years without brakes or sand damage. This fine selection of very rare and never released sides on vinyl come straight from Jamaica in the...
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Okemah Rising (LP)
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Folk, Funk & Beyond - Arrangements Of John Cameron (CD)
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(Ace Records) 24 tracks John Cameron is truly one of the greatest and best known British arrangers of the 60s and 70s. He came from the British jazz scene and as a teenager played live with greats like Dick Heckstall-Smith. When he moved...
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(Vizztone Records) 20 tracks, digisleeve Gaye Adegbalola is widely known as a founding member of Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women (1984 - 2009). A staunch feminist, she has also been a successful solo artist for decades. "Satisfied," her...
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At The Jamaica Hilton - In The Jippi Jappa Lounge (CD)
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(Dub Store) 10 Tracks - Reissue of the original 1967 Federal album. Calypso-Jazz-Ska-Exotica mix!
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Plays Music For Dancing - Feat. Ernest Ranglin (CD)
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(Dub Store) 11 Tracks - Reissue of the original 1969 Twilight album. Lounge-Calypso-Jazz-Exotica mix from Jamaica!
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(Smithsonian Folkways) 15 tracks, digipack. On Corazones and Canciones, two Mexican-American musical greats join forces to create an album full of heart and imagination. Marisol Hernández - La Marisoul - from L. A. and the San...
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The Seekers Featuring Judith Durham - The Ultimate Collection (CD)
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(EMI) 26 tracks 1966-2003 with 22 page booklet
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That Nasty Swing (LP)
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Snow In Hawaii (CD)
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1-CD Digipak (4-plated) with 19-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 75 mns​. During his earliest years in Nova Scotia, Hank Snow (1914-1999) was attracted to the soothing sound of a Hawaiian steel guitar. "Mother saw an...
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Lush Exotica - The Exotic Sound Of Arthur Lyman (2-CD)
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(1998/Rycodisc) 46 tracks Four albums from the legend Arthur Lyman, who made the blue paper of exotica shine. - From heavy, sound effects-driven exotica to much simpler, soulful jazz, all driven by Lyman's fantastic marimba playing. -...
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Somewhere Over The Rainbow - The Best Of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (CD)
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(Universal ) 13 tracks Now released the Best Of of Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole incl. the hits "Over The Rainbow" & What a wonderful world". The growing success of Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole, the great singer from Hawaii who has since...
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Sumer Is Icumen In - The Pagan Sound Of British And Irish Folk 1966-75 (3-CD)
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(Cherry Red Records) 60 tracks, digisleeve in gatefold box. Grapefruit's 2015 3-CD compilation Dust On The Nettles, featuring several artists from the British underground, was widely praised, with a five-star review in the Times calling...
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Stop The War - Vietnam Through The Eyes Of Black America 1965-1974 (CD)
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(Ace Records) 26 Tracks The first part of this trilogy, 'A Soldier's Sad Story', released at the beginning of 2004 and nominated for an award, was able to reflect with its extensive track listing how black musicians dealt with the...
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Does Anybody Know I'm Here? Vietnam Through The Eyes Of Black America 1962-1972 (CD)
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(Ace Records) 24 tracks - Vietnam through the eyes of black America 1962-1972 #2 This second volume of Vietnam War-related soul music is presented with an eye to the chronology of the war. Not all of the tracks mention Vietnam by name....
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