Tony Nuccio just sent me the cover art for our CD, and it looks great. We asked Tony to capture the spirit of an old Folkways LP, and I think he got it right.

Folkways was a record label started by Moses Asch in the 1940s with the seminal Anthology of American Folk Music. Between 1948 and Asch’s death in 1986, Folkways released over 2000 LPs. The records run the gamut, everything from Sonny Terry’s Washboard Band to Balinese gamelan music to instructional records for conducting business meetings in Esperanto. Actually, I may have made the last one up.

Folkways is now part of the Smithsonian Institution, and they’ve done a marvelous job of keeping every title in print: Folkways