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Label: Rounder
Artists
Gregg Allman
:
Low Country Blues
[2011]
**
Marcia Ball
:
Soulful Dress
[1984]
B+
Let Me Play With Your Poodle
[1997]
Marcia Ball/Tracy Nelson/Irma Thomas
:
Sing It!
[1998]
Black Stalin
:
Roots Rock Soca
[1991]
A-
The Blazers
:
Short Fuse
[1994]
Blinky and the Roadmasters
:
Crucian Scratch Band Music
[1990]
James Booker
:
New Orleans Piano Wizard, Live!
[1981]
A-
Classified
[1983]
B+
Resurrection of the Bayou Maharajah
[1993]
***
Boyoyo Boys
:
Back in Town
[1987]
B
Brave Combo
:
A Night on Earth
[1990]
Breakfast Special
:
Breakfast Special
[1979]
B+
Clarence Gatemouth Brown
:
Alright Again!
[1981]
C+
Solomon Burke
:
Soul Alive!
[1984]
B+
A Change Is Gonna Come
[1986]
B+
Mzikayifani Buthelezi
:
Fashion Maswedi
[1988]
B+
Joe "King" Carrasco y las Coronas
:
Bandido Rock
[1987]
B-
Marshall Chapman
:
Take It On Home
[1982]
C+
Bruce Cockburn
:
Anything Anytime Anywhere: Singles 1979-2002
[2002]
Life Short Call Now
[2006]
Johnny Copeland
:
Copeland Special
[1981]
A-
Make My Home Where I Hang My Hat
[1982]
B
Bringin' It All Back Home
[1985]
B+
Hazel Dickens
:
Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People
[1980]
B+
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
:
Mardi Gras in Montreux: Live
[1986]
B+
Dr. John
:
Things Happen That Way
[2022]
A-
Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias
:
I'm Back
[1990]
Champion Jack Dupree
:
A Portrait of Champion Jack Dupree
[2000]
A-
The Flatlanders
:
More a Legend Than a Band
[1990]
A-
Béla Fleck
:
Throw Down Your Heart
[2009]
A-
Jeffrey Frederick & the Clamtones
:
Spiders in the Moonlight
[1977]
B+
Peter Gammons
:
Never Slow Down, Never Grow Old
[2006]
**
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
:
One Endless Night
[2000]
**
Woody Guthrie
:
Dust Bowl Ballads
[1988]
James Hand
:
Shadow on the Ground
[2009]
**
Corey Harris
:
Downhome Sophisticate
[2002]
A-
Mississippi to Mali
[2003]
Break Bread
[2005]
**
John Hartford
:
Aereo-Plain
[1971]
B+
Ted Hawkins
:
Watch Your Step
[1982]
A-
Happy Hour
[1987]
B
Hi-Life International
:
Music to Wake the Dead!
[1984]
B+
Holy Modal Rounders
:
Alleged in Their Own Time
[1975]
B
Too Much Fun
[1999]
A
The Holy Modal Rounders and Friends
:
I Make a Wish for a Potato
[2001]
A
The Horseflies
:
Human Fly
[1987]
B
Michael Hurley
:
Long Journey
[1977]
B+
Snockgrass
[1980]
A-
Michael Hurley/The Unholy Modal Rounders/Jeffrey Fredericks & the Clamtones
:
Have Moicy!
[1976]
A+
John Jackson
:
Step It Up and Go
[1979]
B+
Flaco Jiminez
:
Arriba El Norte
[1989]
B+
Beau Jocque
:
The Best of Beau Jocque & the Zydeco Hi-Rollers
[2001]
C+
Steve Jordan
:
The Return of El Parche
[1988]
A-
Raymond Kane
:
Master of the Slack Key Guitar
[1988]
B+
Bobby King and Terry Evans
:
Rhythm, Blues, Soul & Grooves
[1990]
The Klezmatics
:
Rise Up!/Shteyt Oyf!
[2003]
A-
Alison Krauss
:
Now That I've Found You: A Collection
[1995]
A-
Les Ambassadeurs
:
Les Ambassadeurs
[1984]
A-
Les Ambassadeurs Internationales Featuring Salif Keita
[1992]
A-
Robert Jr. Lockwood & Johnny Shines
:
Hangin' On
[1980]
A-
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell
:
So Familiar
[2015]
*
Prince Nico Mbarga and Rocafil Jazz
:
Sweet Mother
[1981]
B+
John R. Miller
:
Depreciated
[2021]
B+
The Modern Lovers
:
Precise Modern Lovers Order
[1994]
***
The Mthembu Queens
:
Emjindini
[1990]
**
Mzwakhe
:
Change Is Pain
[1988]
B+
Willie Nelson
:
Country Music
[2010]
**
Aaron Neville
:
The Classic Aaron Neville: My Greatest Gift
[1990]
A-
NRBQ
:
God Bless Us All
[1987]
B
Nyboma
:
Doublé Doublé
[1984]
B+
The Ökrös Ensemble
:
I Left My Sweet Homeland
[2001]
***
Isaac Oviedo
:
Routes of Rhythm Vol. 3
[1992]
Madeleine Peyroux
:
Careless Love
[2005]
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
:
Raising Sand
[2007]
***
Professor Longhair
:
Houseparty New Orleans Style
[1987]
A-
Jonathan Richman
:
Having a Party With Jonathan Richman
[1991]
*
Action Packed: The Best of Jonathan Richman
[2002]
***
Seigneur Tabu Ley Rochereau
:
Muzina
[1994]
Tabu Ley Rochereau
:
Africa Worldwide: 35th Anniversary Album
[1996]
A-
Mike Seeger
:
Solo -- Oldtime Country Music
[1991]
**
Third Annual Farewell Reunion
[1994]
**
Mike, Barbara & Penny Seeger
:
Animal Folk Songs for Children
[1992]
Stephan Smith
:
Now's the Time
[1999]
Sol y Canto
:
Sendero Del Sol
[1997]
Joseph Spence and the Pinder Family
:
The Spring of Sixty-Five
[1994]
A-
Peter Stampfel and the Bottle Caps
:
Peter Stampfel and the Bottlecaps
[1986]
A-
Stampfel & Weber
:
Going Nowhere Fast
[1981]
A-
Angela Strehli
:
Blonde and Blue
[1993]
Irma Thomas
:
After the Rain
[2006]
Linda Thompson
:
Fashionably Late
[2002]
**
Versatile Heart
[2007]
***
George Thorogood and the Destroyers
:
George Thorogood and the Destroyers
[1977]
B
Move It on Over
[1978]
B
Tiny Tim with Brave Combo
:
Girl
[1996]
***
Happy and Artie Traum
:
Hard Times in the Country
[1975]
B-
Bibi Den's Tshibaya
:
"The Best" Ambiance
[1984]
B
The Venanda Lovely Boys
:
Bo-Tata
[1989]
B+
Loudon Wainwright III
:
A Live One
[1980]
B+
Fame and Wealth
[1983]
B
I'm Alright
[1985]
B+
More Love Songs
[1987]
B+
Barrence Whitfield and the Savages
:
Dig Yourself
[1985]
B+
Ow! Ow! Ow!
[1987]
B+
Bob Wills
:
Stay a Little Longer
[2002]
**
Eva Ybarra y Su Conjunto
:
A Mi San Antonio
[1994]
Compilations/Soundtracks
All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs and Voice of Gregg Allman
[2014]
**
Anthology of World Music: The Music of Afghanistan
[2003]
***
Best of Straker's: Ah Feel to Party
[1996]
Calypso Calaloo
[1993]
*
Cuban Dance Party: Routes of Rhythm, Volume 2
[1990]
A-
Homeland
[1987]
B+
Homeland 2
[1990]
Keep It Rollin': The Blues Piano Collection
[2001]
A-
Kneelin' Down Inside the Gate: The Great Rhythming Singers of the Bahamas
[1995]
*
Kwanzaa Music: A Celebration of Black Cultures in Song
[1994]
A-
Kwanzaa Party
[1996]
A-
Mbube! Zulu Men's Singing Competition
[1987]
B+
The Nairobi Beat (Kenyan Pop Music Today)
[1989]
B+
Shango, Shouter and Obeah: Supernatural Calypso From Trinidad 1934-1940
[2001]
B+
Sheshwe: The Sound of the Mines
[1988]
B-
Singing in an Open Space: Zulu Rhythm and Harmony
[1990]
*
South African Trade Union Worker Choirs
[1987]
B+
Woodstock Mountains: More Music From Mud Acres
[1978]
B
Zouk Attack
[1992]