“Lucinda Williams Sings the Beatles from Abbey Road” may seem an especially ambitious album for the Louisiana-born ...

According to NPR, John Smith, the associate director of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings ... she released We Are America’s Children. The album included a version of Woody Guthrie’s “This ...

Her students - and their music - come from places like Africa and South America, along with Indigenous ... "The Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and musicians with whom we work, we are going ...

The American system of picking presidents has been a great success story, and changing it would introduce a host of practical ...

America was founded as an ecumenical biblically ... he was really making an appeal to the imperative of gratitude. Beautiful customs, folkways and norms are far more easily destroyed than they ...

GraphicaArtis/Getty Images America was founded as an ecumenical ... Beautiful customs, folkways, and norms are far more easily destroyed than they are built, and it is incumbent upon men ...

Who are these people who say that there’s no great music being released anymore - you know, not like when they were young?

Amada Cardenas, a Mexican American woman who lived in the tiny border town of Mirando City in South Texas, played an ...

“suitcase that I hit with a roll of duct tape”) throughout these folkways-meets-the-spaceways tracks. Call it asteroid field recording. In a strange bit of real-time lore that feels like it ...

Getty Images and Library of Congress Audio clips courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways (https://folkways.si.edu/) National Treasure: The Mold Behind the Miracle of Penicillin (04:55) The Mysterious ...

Huib Schippers is the director and curator of Smithsonian Folkways, the iconic non-profit record label of the Smithsonian. Schippers has a long and diverse history of engagement with music ...

USA TODAY goes to Wyoming's Wind River Reservation to hear the challenges and the pride of being Indigenous in America.