D.A. Sonneborn

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Associate director (Retired), Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1998-2018

ALBUMS

The Country Gentlemen

Going Back To The Blue Ridge Mountains

Elizabeth Cotten

Classic Blues Vol. 2 From Smithsonian Folkways

Country Blues/Piano Blues

APPEARANCES +

Classic Delta And Deep South Blues (From Smithsonian Folkways)

Epilogue: A Tribute to John Duffey

Bluegrass/Country

Rahim AlHaj Trio

Classic Piedmont Blues (From Smithsonian Folkways)

Rahim AlHaj Oud And String Quartet*

Letters From Iraq

The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

The Brothers Nazaroff

The Happy Prince

Long Time...Seldom Scene

More Multicultural Children’s Songs From Ella Jenkins

Songs Of The Spanish Civil War

Classic Banjo (From Smithsonian Folkways)

Classic Harmonica Blues (From Smithsonian Folkways)

Harmonica Blues/Country Blues

Elizabeth Mitchell

The Dust Busters With John Cohen

Woody At 100 (The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection)

Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology

Bop/Contemporary Jazz/Ragtime/Big Band/Swing/Hard Bop/Cool Jazz/Latin Jazz

Joropo Music From the Plains of Colombia

Classic Sounds Of New Orleans (From Smithsonian Folkways)

Ragtime/Dixieland

Rappahannock Blues

American Favorite Ballads

Son de Mi Tierra

Classic Piano Blues From Smithsonian Folkways

¡Ayombe! The Heart Of Colombia’s Música Vallenata

Cephas & Wiggins*

Early Southern Guitar Sounds

The La Drivers Union Por Por Group

Por Por: Honk Horn Music Of Ghana

Singing For Life (Songs Of Hope, Healing, And HIV/AIDS In Uganda)

American Favorite Ballads Vol. 5

Classic Old-Time Fiddle (From Smithsonian Folkways)

On My Journey: Paul Robeson’s Independent Recordings

Red Allen (2) Featuring Frank Wakefield

The Folkways Years 1964-1983

Rahim Alhaj with Souhail Kaspar

When The Soul Is Settled: Music Of Iraq

Classic African-American Ballads (From Smithsonian Folkways)

Classic Labor Songs (From Smithsonian Folkways)

American Favorite Ballads Vol. 4

Masters Of Old-Time Country Autoharp

Alberta - Wild Roses Northern Lights

Whoever Shall Have Some Good Peanuts (And Other Folk Songs For Children)

Classic Bluegrass Vol. 2 (From Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

¡Arriba Suena Marimba!

Songs And Stories From Grand Canyon

Dark Holler (Old Love Songs And Ballads)

Woody Guthrie And Lead Belly*

Folkways: The Original Vision (Songs Of Woody Guthrie And Lead Belly)

The Lilly Bros.* & Don Stover

Bluegrass At The Roots ✽ 1961

Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lou’s Mass

Classic Southern Gospel (From Smithsonian Folkways)

Classic Folk Music (From Smithsonian Folkways)

Classic Maritime Music (From Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

Folk/Sea Shanties

Eddie Pennington

Walks The Strings...And Even Sings

American Favorite Ballads Vol. 3

...And The Tin Pan Bended, And The Story Ended...

Back Roads To Cold Mountain

Warner Williams (2) With Jay Summerour

Blues Highway: Live

The Beaton Family Of Mabou*

Cape Breton Fiddle & Piano Music

cELLAbration! A Tribute To Ella Jenkins

Doc Tate Nevaquaya

Comanche Flute Music

Mary Lou Williams

Black Christ Of The Andes

An Untamed Sense Of Control

Appalachian Music/Country Blues

Ballads (From Her Appalachian Family Tradition)

Abayudaya (Music From The Jewish People Of Uganda)

American Favorite Ballads Vol. 2

Classic Blues (From Smithsonian Folkways)

Country Blues/Piano Blues

Reverend Gary Davis*

If I Had My Way: Early Home Recordings

Hittin’ The Trail

Ella Jenkins And Children From The LaSalle Language Academy Of Chicago

Sharing Cultures

Havana & Matanzas, Cuba, Ca.1957: Batá, Bembé, And Palo Songs

Afro-Cuban/Field Recording

Ustad Mohammad Omar featuring Zakir Hussain

Virtuoso From Afghanistan

American Favorite Ballads Vol. 1

Badenya: Manden Jaliya In New York City

Fast Folk - A Community Of Singers & Songwriters

The Romani Instrumentalists Of Jumaya

Bells And Winter Festivals Of Greek Macedonia

The Silk Road: A Musical Caravan

Ottoman Classical/Religious/Folk

Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways

Nati Cano’s Mariachi Los Camperos*

¡Viva El Mariachi!

Every Tone A Testimony (An African American Aural History)

Bosavi (Rainforest Music From Papua New Guinea)

Field Recording

There Is No Eye: Music For Photographs

Bluegrass/Chicago Blues/Folk/Gospel/Country Blues/Celtic

Havana, Cuba, Ca. 1957: Rhythms And Songs For The Orishas (From The Historic Recordings Of Lydia Cabrera And Josefina Tarafa)

Matanzas, Cuba, Ca. 1957: Afro-Cuban Sacred Music From The Countryside

Richard Dyer-Bennet

Sweeney’s Dream (Fiddle Tunes From County Sligo, Ireland)

Song And Play Time

Honeyboy Edwards*

Mississippi Delta Bluesman

Country Blues/Delta Blues

The Folkways Years 1959-1973

Well May The World Go

European Klezmer Music

Malvina Reynolds

Ear To The Ground

Vocal Music In Crete

Big Bill Broonzy

Trouble In Mind

Calypso In New York (The Asch Recordings 1946-1961)

Indonesian Guitars

Presidential Campaign Songs 1789-1996

Tuva, Among The Spirits - Sound, Music And Nature In Sakha And Tuva

Field Recording/Overtone Singing

Buffalo Skinners (The Asch Recordings, Vol. 4)

Headlines & Footnotes (A Collection Of Topical Songs)

Northumberland Rant (Traditional Music From The Edge Of England)

Kmhmu Highlanders*

Bamboo On The Mountains (Kmhmu Highlanders From Southeast Asia And The United States)

Lao Music/Field Recording

Sulawesi: Festivals, Funerals, And Work

Saints’ Paradise

Sings For Children

Ella Jenkins, A Summer Music Workshop Of St. Paul’s Church

Seasons For Singing

New Orleans Street Singer

Sakura - A Musical Celebration Of Cherry Blossoms