The Folkways Collection

Another monstrously huge collection o' music I was made aware of via some silly newsletter to which I subscribe. This one caught my eye because of the particular wonderfulness of the four volume Woody Guthrie set The Asch Recordings, which I splurged on about a year ago and which has gotten an obnoxious amount of play time since. In any case, this is 24 hours of American music of the 20th Century broken out by genre in 1 hour podcasts.

If someone wants to take the time top break it into individual files with proper labels, that would be just dandy!

Copy of how it's described:

The way audio engineer Moses Asch remembered it, it was his sometime collaborator Albert Einstein who told him to create a universal archive of 20th-century sound. And so, in 1948, Asch created Folkways, and set about recording everything under the sun.

“The Folkways Collection” splits the remarkable story of Asch’s label (which was also home to Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Pete Seeger, and was transferred to the Smithsonian after his death) into 24 podcasts, each of which features interviews and original recordings from the Folkways archive of 2,000-plus recordings: You’ll hear folk music, children’s music, recordings of frogs, and examples of Allen Ginsberg’s ill-advised forays into the blues. Our favorite episode, No. 23, is dedicated to Phil Ochs — the Greenwich Village folksinger who lived (and died) in Bob Dylan’s shadow.

Link here: http://www.folkways.si.edu/learn_discover/podcasts/folkways.xml