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127 Songs from the Archives
Come and get it! The Old Town School is proud to offer you a free download of select concert recordings made from our live concert archive. This is the first chip off of a 50-year-old iceberg!
Each of these songs was selected for this initial voyage because they are important, high quality, teachable examples of the vernacular music that we love here at the School. These songs are available for purchase on iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby and other fine digital music stores but we are happy to offer you a free download of all 127 songs. Please enter your code, preview and download any tracks you wish or click "download all" to receive 127 live performances by these artists and many more:
Andrew Bird - Goodnight Irene, Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Rory Block - The Titanic, Big Bill Broonzy - Glory of Love, Ella Jenkins - Came Out The Wilderness, Jeff Tweedy - Three is the Perfect Number, Mahalia Jackson - Move on Up a Little Higher, Toumani Diabate - Jarabi, Martin Carthy - John Barleycorn, Frank Hamilton & Valucha - Motherless Child, Mono Blanco - La Bamba, Guy Clark - Sis' Draper, Ginni Clemmens - Wild Women Don't Get the Blues, Steve Dawson - The Dying Soldier, Donovan - Mellow Yellow, Lila Downs - Ofrenda, Mark Dvorak - Streets of Old Chicago, Steve Earle - Jerusalem, Tim O'Brien & Darrell Scott - With a Memory Like Mine, Ramblin' Jack Elliot - Grand Coolie Dam, Los Plenaros de la 21 - Puerto Rico Mi Tierra Natal, Jon Langford - Homburg, Bonnie Koloc - Roll Me on the Water, Malvina Reynolds - Bury Me in My Overalls, Dave Van Ronk - St. James Infirmary, Doc Watson - Blue Eyed Jane, Jean Ritchie - Nottamun Town, Oumou Sangare - Woula Bara Diagna, Tom Dundee - Delicate Balance, Fred Holstein - Days of 49, John Renbourn & Jacqui McShee - The Cruel Sister, Pete Seeger - Roll the Union On and many more!

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