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Dedicated to American Roots Music, including blues, bluegrass, cajun, country, gospel, jazz, folk, old-time, polka, spirituals, Tex-Mex, and western swing. https://american-roots-music.blogspot.com/

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American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 21h

🎵 𝐉𝐨𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐞𝐳 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 — 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟑
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This playful snapshot captures Joan Baez with her mother and sisters, showing the Baez women in what the original caption called “total noncooperation with the photographer.”

American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 1d

𝐌𝐢𝐦𝐢 & 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 — 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡, 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚 (𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟔)

American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 1d

Pete Seeger introducing a young Bob Dylan at the Carnegie Hall Hootenanny on September 22, 1962.

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American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 2d

Woody Guthrie in 1943 at McSorley’s Old Ale House in New York City singing and playing his guitar which is labeled “This Machine Kills Fascists.”

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American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 3d

Rock Island Italian Family, Date unknown.

American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 3d

𝗥𝗜𝗣 𝗧𝗼 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗢𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗱 ☘️
𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗼 – bass guitar, fiddle, vocals
𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗺 – drums, tambourine, vocals
𝗚𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝘂𝗱𝘀𝗼𝗻 – organ, piano, clavinet, soprano and tenor saxophones
𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗲𝗹 – piano, organ, vocals
𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗯𝗶𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀𝗼𝗻 – electric and acoustic guitars, vocals

American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 3d

Grateful Dead's Aoxomoxoa photo shoot at Rancho Olompali. The photograph includes Bob Weir, Ken Babbs, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, Tom Constanten, Mickey Hart, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, with photographer Tom Weir in the foreground.

American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 3d

Back when The Tony Rice Unit took a break this group got together to tour and they recorded the LP & CD Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit " Live in Holland" for Strickly Country Records. (L-R) Ernie Sykes Jr., Warren Blair, Jimmy Gaudreau, Wyatt Rice and Kevin Church .

American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 4d

𝐓𝐚𝐣 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐫𝐭 — 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐤 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥, 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟒
Two generations of the blues in one frame. Mississippi John Hurt, whose gentle picking and kindness left a mark on everyone he met, and a young Taj Mahal—soaking in the living history he would help carry forward.

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American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 4d

THE ROOTS OF THE BLUES
🖤🎸🌟🎸🖤🎸🌟🎸🖤

American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 4d

𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐆𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐞 — 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟑
“The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.” — Woody Guthrie

American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 17d

Bluegrass from the Blue Ridge Country Band Music of Virginia
Folkways Records – FS 3832
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: United States
Released: 1967
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass, & Country
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American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 19d

The new America: Cartoon for Dutch daily newspaper Trouw
©2025 Tjeerd Royaards x.gd/zSlVX

American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 23d

Just Because I'm a Woman: The Songs of Dolly Parton
Sugar Hill Records – SUG CD 3980A
Format: CD, Advance, Album, Promo
Country: United States
Released: 2003
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass, & Country
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American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 23d

American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 24d

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American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 24d

American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 28d

Putumayo Presents Bluegrass
Putumayo World Music – PUT 319-2
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: United States
Released: 2012
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
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American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · 29d

American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · Sep 9

The pacifist ©2025 Ramón Díaz Yanes x.gd/fSNib
Trump orders the Department of Defense to be renamed the Department of War.

American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · Sep 8

Court staff cover up Banksy image of judge beating a protester; Artist’s latest work at Royal Courts of Justice in London is thought to refer to pro-Palestine demonstrations x.gd/wm64M

American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · Sep 6

Iron Mountain String Band: An Old Time Southern Mountain String Band
Folkways Records FA-2473
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: United States
Released: 1973
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Old Time, & Country
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American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · Sep 6

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American Roots Music @fotokiddie.bsky.social · Sep 4

Cowboy Playground
Putumayo Kids Music – P318-SL
Format: CD, Album, Promo
Country: US
Released: 2012
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Children's
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