Music audio MP3 etc downloads
These are mostly entire tracks or long clips (not the usual 30 second clips).
Most are copyright and provided online by music companies as samples, a few are public domain.
Appropriate audio player software is required.
Sugardaddy - A local acoustic blues duo - free full track mp3 streaming.
The Internet Archive
Dozens of old blues recordings, including...
Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie Mctell.
You Got To Go Down - Rev Gary Davis.
Diddie Wa Diddie - Blind Blake.
Police Dog Blues - Blind Blake.
Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down - Big Bill Broonzy.
K. C. Blues - Frank Hutchison.
You're Gonna Quit Me Blues - Blind Blake.
Spoonful Blues - Charlie Patton.
My Sweet Farm Girl - Clarence Ashley.
Last Kind Words - Geeshie Wiley.
Skinny Legs Blues - Geeshie Wiley.
Pick Poor Robin Clean - Geeshie Wiley + Elvie Thomas.
I'll Go With Her Blues - Robert Wilkins.
Love In Vain - Robert Johnson.
Phonograph Blues - Robert Johnson.
Stack O Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt.
Avalon Blues - Mississippi John Hurt.
Nobody's Dirty Business - Mississippi John Hurt.
Louis Collins - Mississippi John Hurt.
Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt.
My Black Mama - Son House.
Taint None O' Your Business - Butter Beans and Susie.
How Can You Have Blues - Kansas City Kitty + Georgia Tom.
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? - Leadbelly.
Cottonfield Blues - Garfield Akers + Joe Calicott.
I'm So Glad - Skip James.
...and many more.
Radio Broadcasts by Stefan Grossman
57 radio programs featuring many original recordings by numerous old blues guitarists
and modern guitarists. Plus Stefan's site sells instruction videos/dvds/books featuring many of these musicians.
About 14 hours of fascinating audio, available in hi-fi and lo-fi versions, including...
Country Blues Guitar: 17 radio programs featuring music by Charley Patton, Son House, Skip James, Tommy Johnson, Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Mississippi John Hurt, Muddy Waters, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Lightning Hopkins, Barbecue Bob, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Blake, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Boy Fuller.
Contemporary Fingerstyle Guitar: 17 radio programs featuring music by John Fahey, Leo Kottke, Ry Cooder, Happy Traum, Dave Laibman, Duck Baker, Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Dave Evans, John James, Ton Van Bergeyk, Leo Wijnkamp, Jr., Peter Finger, Marcel Dadi, Pierre Bensusan, Dan Ar Bras, Gill Burns, Janet Smith, Margo Random.
Fingerpicking Guitar Workshop: 13 radio programs featuring music by Skip James, Bukka White, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Willie Walker, Rev Gary Davis, Lonnie Johnson, Tampa Red, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lil Son Jackson, Blind Willie McTell, Barbecue Bob, Charlie Lincoln.
Styles and Techniques of Country Blues Guitar: 10 radio programs featuring music by Mississippi John Hurt, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Boy Fuller, Rev. Gary Davis, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charlie Patton, Son House, Willie Brown, Robert Johnson, Alan Lomax.
John Sheehan - one of my favourite guitarists.
EzFolk has lots of audio tracks by John Sheehan in both lo-fi and hi-fi versions. Some I especially like are... "Sleepy Eyes", "Cabin Fever", "Together We Dream", "Desert Prayer", "Let it Rip", "The Villain", "Jump Into the Fire", "Trip to Spain", "Lord Inchiquin", "Cliffs of Moher", "Silent Night" (blues style), "Five Ricercars".
CDBaby also have reviews, sample tracks, and CDS for sale.
John Sheehan's website has sample tracks, info on guitar tunings, CDs for sale, and reasonably-priced guitar and banjo tab of many of these tunes.
Also see the movie of John playing "Freedom Place".
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Cincinnati Flow Rag (Rev Gary Davis), played by Rick Payne.
Etta Baker - "Railroad Bill", "Mint Julep", "John Henry".
Statesboro Blues (Blind Willie McTell), played by Rory Block, its the sample track halfway down that page.
Michael Roach - "Little Woman You're So Sweet", "Look at the People".
Scroll down that page to find Michael Roach.
Bedford Metal - about 28 tracks by Bedford area bands - on their "Sound" page.
Mary Humphreys and Anahata - All 14 tracks from the "Through The Groves" album, traditional English folk music.
Neil Barber - "Tanque Verde Wash".
Folk club sessions.
Live recordings of open sessions at various folk clubs in the Milton Keynes area (England).
After you've clicked on this link you'll see a box on the left of that screen headed "photo files",
you need to scroll that box down until you find "sound files".
Foresters Morris Men - Lots of good morris music here.
jamZradio - impossible to describe this.
