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The Unfortunate Rake
- Release Date: 1960, 1990
- Record label: Folkways Records - FW03805
- Compilation album, thematic
- Notes: 20 different versional and variational forms of the 'Rake' cycle of ballads. Insert; edited by Kenneth S. Goldstein. Originally issued as analog disc on Folkways Records: FS 3805, 1960; released on Compact disc in 1990. Program notes by the compiler, including texts of the songs (8 p.) inserted in outer container. Performed by various folk singers.
- Songs: The Unfortunate Rake (A. L. Lloyd and Alf Edwards) -- The Trooper Cut Down in His Prime – (Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger) -- The Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime (Harry Cox) -- Noo I'm a Young Man Cut Down in My Prime (Willie Mathieson) -- The Bad Girl's Lament (Wade Hemsworth) -- One Morning in May (Hally Wood) -- Bright Summer Morning (Viola Penn) -- The Girl in the Dilger Case (D. K. Wilgus) -- The Cowboy's Lament (Bruce Buckley) -- Streets of Laredo (Harry Jackson) -- St. James Hospital (Alan Lomax) -- Gambler's Blues (Dave Van Ronk) -- I Once Was a Carman - I Once Was a Carman in the Big Mountain Con (Guthrie T. "Gus" Meade) -- The Lineman's Hymn (Rosalie Sorrels) -- The Wild Lumberjack (Kenneth S. Goldstein) -- A Sun Valley Song (Jan Brunvand and Ellen Stekert) -- The Ballad of Bloody Thursday (John Greenway) -- Streets of Hamtramck (Bill Friedland, Mark Newman, and Morris Howarth) -- The Ballad of Sherman Wu (Pete Seeger) -- The Professor's Lament (Roger Abrahams)
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The Cotton-pickin' Lift Tower and Other Skiing Songs
- Release Date: 196?
- Record label: Prestige Records (13039)
- Notes: Skiing songs; Ray Conrad, vocals & guitar ; with vocal acc. by Rosalie Sorrels. Lyrics (4 p.) inserted; program notes by Ray Conrad
- Songs: Round-Bottomed Bogners—The Cotton-Pickin' Lift Tower -- Skiing Billy (with Rosalie Sorrels) -- In the Mountains Near Alta—Two Cubes with a Slug of V. O. -- The Ski Instructor—The Mineshaft Song—The Last Ride -- Skier's Bible School (with Rosalie Sorrels) -- Stretch Pants Lament—An Ounce of Prevention—The Skier's Daydream
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Welcome to Caffe Lena
- Release Date: 1972
- Record label: Biograph Records
- Live album; various artists
- Notes: Durations and program notes by M. Cooney and B. Spence on the container. Folk songs and instrumentals; various performers. "Recorded live at Caffè Lena, Phila St., Saratoga, N.Y. by The Bottom Forty Recording Company."
- Songs: Lena, won't you open your door (Michael Cooney) -- Cluck old hen (Bill Vanaver) -- Elegant hobo (Paul Geremia) -- Belles of Cheyenne/The blackbird (Bob and Evelyne Beers) -- The blacksmith (Lou Killen) -- The clog hornpipe/Harvest home (High Level Ranters) -- Come on friend (Rosalie Sorrels) -- Giovani Montini, the Pope (Patrick Sky) -- Blue birds singing (Bottle Hill) -- Whore's lament (Hedy West) -- Daddy what's a train? (Bruce Phillips) -- Sweet little cafe in a square (Lena Spencer) -- Tarry not (Frank Wakefield)
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Live at the Great American Music Hall
- Release Date: 1980 (Re-released 1993)
- Record label: Flying Fish Records
- Live album
- Notes: Terry Garthwaite, vocals, guitar ; Bobbie Louise Hawkins, monologues ; Rosalie Sorrels, vocals, guitar. Recorded live at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 1980.
- Songs: - True love—Take love, for instance—The pine—Liver piece—Hoy hoy hoy—Hot-buttered rum—I owe you one—Snake toast—Catch it while you can—You don't know—I remember loving you—Magic piece—Slender thread
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Cowboy Songs on Folkways
- Release Date: 1991
- Record label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings CD SF 40043
- Compilation album; various artists; Traditional cowboy songs
- Notes: Previously released material, now on compact disc. Notes on the singers and the songs, with bibliography (1 folded sheet) enclosed. Recorded 1944-1965.
- Songs: Morning grub holler / Harry Jackson—Round-up cook / Harry Jackson—Chisholm trail / Tex-I-An Boys—Whoopie-ti-yi-yo, get along little dogies / Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston—Little Joe, the wrangler / Cisco Houston—Little Joe the wrangler's sister Nell / Harry Jackson—Utah Carl / Harry K. McClintock—Put your little foot / Tex-I-An Boys—Trail to Mexico / Peter LaFarge—Las Chapparreras / Peter Hurd—Buffalo skinners / Woody Guthrie—Zebra Dun / Ray Reed—Some cowboy brag talk / Harry Jackson—Horse wrangler / Roger Welsch—Strawberry roan / Harry Jackson.; Texian boys / John A. Lomax, Jr. -- Cow cow yicky yicky yea / Leadbelly—Jesse James (Leadbelly's version) / Woody Guthrie—Home on the range/ Pete Seeger -- (There's an) Empty cot in the bunkhouse tonight / Rosalie Sorrels -- (When it's) Springtime in the Rockies / Leadbelly—Lone star trail / Dave Fredickson—Rodeo hand / Peter LaFarge—Philadelphia lawyer / Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston—The dying cowboy / Cisco Houston—The devil made Texas / Hermes Nye.
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Long Memory
- Release Date: 1996
- Record label: Red House Records
- Studio albums; Traditional and new songs
- Notes: A collection of old and new union songs by Rosalie Sorrels, Utah Phillips, and Pete Seeger recorded at Horizon Sound Studio, Meridian, Idaho. Performed by Rosalie Sorrels, and Utah Phillips, vocals, guitar.
- Songs: Aunt Molly Jackson defines folk songs once and for—I am a union woman—Aragon Mill—Carolina cotton mill—De colores—Bury me in my overalls—Soapbox oration—All used up—Two bums—Dump the bosses off your back—The charge on Mother Jones -- Harry Orchard -- Nevada Jane—No more Reds -- Wobbly doxology
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Friends of Mine
- Release Date: 1998
- Record label: HighTone Records (HCD 8089)
- Studio album; Ramblin' Jack Elliott with various artists
- Notes: Folk and country songs; Ramblin' Jack Elliott, guitar and vocals ; with vocal and instrumental accompaniment. Recorded Feb. 1996-Oct. 1997.
- Songs: Riding Down the Canyon (with Arlo Guthrie) – Me and Billy the Kid (with Peter Rowan) -- Last letter (with Rosalie Sorrels) -- Louise (with Tom Waits) -- Rex's Blues (with Emmylou Harris & Nanci Griffith) -- Walls of Red Wing (with John Prine) – Hard Travelin' (with Jerry Jeff Walker) -- He Was a Friend of Mine (with Jerry Jeff Walker) -- Dark as a Dungeon (with Guy Clark) -- Friend of the Devil (with Bob Weis) -- Reason to Believe—Bleecker Street Blues.
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Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf
- Release Date: 1998
- Record label: Red House Records RHR CD 114
- Tribute album; studio album; various artists
- Notes: Folk and popular songs; words and music by Kate Wolf; songs performed by various artists. Booklet contains tributes and remembrances about Kate Wolf.
- Songs: Give yourself to love (Kathy Mattea) -- These times we're living in (Dave Alvin) -- Friend of mine (Nanci Griffith) -- Sweet love (John Gorka) -- Here in California (Lucinda Williams) -- Like a river (Peter Rowan & The Rowan Brothers) -- Carolina pines (Cris Williamson & Tret Fure) -- See here, she said (U. Utah Phillips) – In china or a woman's heart (Rosalie Sorrels) -- Tequila and me (Greg Brown & Ferron) -- Back roads (Nina Gerber) -- Cornflower blue (Eric Bogle) -- Love still remains (Emmylou Harris) -- Thinking about you (Terry Garthwaite).
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An Imaginary Christmas in Idaho
- Release Date: 1999
- Record label: Limberlost Books & Records (Boise ID)
- Live album; various artists
- Notes: Christmas songs, poetry and folk tales in English and Basque performed by Rosalie Sorrels, Gino Sky and friends featuring the More's Creek String Band, Wild Roses and Biotzetik Basque Choir. Recorded June 7, 1999 at the Basque Museum and Cultural Center in Boise, Idaho.
- Songs: Jigs: Tobin's favorite jig, Swallowtail jig—An imaginary Christmas in Idaho—Bread and fishes—Winter song—Grandma—Haurrak ikasazue—The fruitcake—Miz Fogarty's Christmas cake—Jingle bells/We wish you a merry Christmas—Party crasher's carol—Interview with John Thomsen—Just a little lefse—Christmas in their eyes—Hot buttered rum—Christmas Eve – Bufana and Lena—Italian Christmas carol—Intro to Biotzetik – Alabatua—Haurrak ikasazue reprise.
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No Closing Chord: The Songs of Malvina Reynolds
- Release Date: 2000
- Record label: Red House Records
- Studio album, Tribute album
- Notes: A tribute to Malvina Reynolds. Thirteen of Reynolds's most loved songs with vocalist Rosalie Sorrels. Guitarist Nina Gerber, Bonnie Raitt (Slide Guitar), Barbara Higbie (Fiddle, Piano, Accordion, Background Vocals), Laurie Lewis (Hardingfele), Terry Garthwaite (vocals), and Will Scarlett (harmonica.)
- Songs: Magic Penny/Visitation / Sorrels, Rosalie—A Little Muscle—What Have They Done to the Rain? -- The Money Crop—The Judge Said—No Hole in My Head—From Way Up Here—Lost Children Street—Rosie Jane—I Cannot Sleep—On the Rim of the World—This World—No Closing Chord
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A Nod to Bob: An Artists' Tribute to Bob Dylan on his Sixtieth Birthday
- Release Date: 2001
- Record label: Red House Records RHR CD 154
- Tribute album; studio album; various artists
- Notes: All songs previously released by Bob Dylan Program notes inserted in container. Various performers recorded at the World Theater, St. Paul Minnesota.
- Songs: Love minus zero/no limit /; Eliza Gilkyson; (3:54) --; Sweetheart like you /; Guy Davis; (5:07) --; Clothes line saga /; Suzzy & Maggie Roche; (3:14) --; Delia /; Spider John Koerner & Dave Ray; (2:42) --; I want you /; Cliff Eberhardt; (5:15) --; All along the watchtower /; Tom Landa & the Paperboys; (4:20) --; Dieu à nos côte's; (With God on our side) /; Hart-Rouge; (4:06) --; Boots of Spanish leather /; Martin Simpson; (6:20) --; Restless farewell /; Norman Blake & Peter Ostroushko; (5:33) --; It ain't me, babe /; Lucy Kaplansky /; (4:20) --; Pledging my time /; Greg Brown; (3:40) - -; Tomorrow is a Long Time /; Rosalie Sorrels; (4:53) --; Intro to Don't think twice, it's all right /; Ramblin' Jack Elliott; (1:48) --; Don't think twice, it's all right /; Ramblin' Jack Elliott; (4:07).
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Classic Railroad Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
- Release Date: 2006
- Record label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 40192
- Compilation album; various artists
- Notes: Selections originally released 1952-1997; track 11 previously unissued. Program notes, including bibliography and discography (33 p. : ill.) inserted in container Recorded 1942-1981.
- Songs: An excerpt from "Rail dynamics"; (recorded by Emory Cook); (:24) --; Train 45; (the New Lost City Ramblers); (2:18) --; Kassie Jones; (Furry Lewis); (2:56) --; Jay Gould's daughter; (Pete Seeger); (2:38) --; Railroad Bill; (Walt Robertson); (2:08) --; Linin' track; (Lead Belly); (1:15) --; Freight Train; (Elizabeth Cotten); (2:43) --; Drill, ye tarriers, drill; (Cisco Houston); (2:30) --; Zach, the Mormon engineer; (L.M. Hilton); (2:02) --; Lost train blues; (the Virginia Mountain Boys); (2:57) --; The F.F.V.; (Annie Watson); (3:52) --; He's coming to us dead; (the New Lost City Ramblers); (3:15) --; The train that carried my girl from town; (Doc Watson); (2:18) --; Rock Island Line; (Lead Belly); (2:03) --; Lonesome train; (Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie, and Cisco Houston); (3:31) --; John Henry; (Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston); (2:42) --; The wreck of the Number Nine; (Rosalie Sorrels); (1:36) --; Freight train blues; (Brownie McGhee); (3:36) --; The New Market wreck; (Mike Seeger); (3:39) --; Jerry, go oil that car; (Haywire Mac); (2:38) --; Way out in Idaho; (Rosalie Sorrels); (3:34) --; Old John Henry died on the mountain; (Henry Grady Terrell); (1:55) --; Casey Jones; (John D. Mounce); (:20) --; Wreck of the Old 97; (Pop Stoneman); (2:51) --; Midnight special; (Lead Belly); (2:03) --; Wabash Cannonball; (Doc Watson); (3:17) --; Lost train blues; (Vernon Sutphin); (1:13) --; New River train; (Iron Mountain String Band); (4:26) --; Excerpt from "Three little engines and 33 cars"; (recorded by Vinton Wight); (:25).
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