Guy Carawan - Discography

Discography

Documentary Recording Projects

  • May Justus, The Carawan Recordings, summer 1953, Horton living room in Monteagle, TN; 1961 at May’s Summerfield home. Recorded by Guy Carawan; published in 2011 by Tennessee Folklore Society and Jubilee Community Arts.
  • Nashville Sit-In Story. Folkways Records, FH#5590, 1960. Recorded by Guy Carawan, assisted by Mel Kaiser at Cue Studio.
  • Hamper McBee, Cumberland Moonshiner. Prestige Records, 1965. Recorded by Guy Carawan in Knoxville, TN, April 6, 1962.
  • Freedom in the Air: Albany Georgia, 1961-62. SNCC #101. Produced by Vanguard Records for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Recorded by Guy Carawan. Produced by Guy Carawan & Alan Lomax.
  • We Shall Overcome, Songs of Freedom Riders and the Sit-Ins. Folkways Records, FH#5591, 1963. Includes Nashville Quartet and Montgomery Trio. Recorded in New York City.
  • Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. Mass Meeting. Folkways Records, FD#5487, 1980. Includes Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Birmingham Movement Choir. Recorded by Guy Carawan in Birmingham, AL.
  • The Story of Greenwood, Mississippi. Folkways Records, FD#5593, 1965. Includes Bob Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers, Dick Gregory. Recorded by Guy Carawan in Greenwood, MS.
  • Sea Island Folk Festival: Moving Star Hall Singers. Folkways Records, FS#3841, 1966. Includes Alan Lomax speaking at festival. Recorded and produced by Guy & Candie Carawan.
  • Been in the Storm So Long: Spirituals, Shouts, Folk Tales and Children’s Songs of Johns Island, South Carolina. Folkways Records, FS#3842, 1967. Recorded and produced by Guy & Candie Carawan.
  • Earl Gilmore: From the Depths of My Soul. June Appal Recordings, JA0022, 1967. Produced and edited by Guy Carawan for June Appal Recordings. Includes Rupert Oysler on harmonica. Recorded by Jack Wright and Jeff Kiser.
  • Come All You Coal Miners. Rounder Records, #4005, 1974. Includes Nimrod Workman, Sarah Gunning, George Tucker, Hazel Dickens. Recorded by Roger and Lucy Phenix at Appalachian Music Workshop at Highlander Center, October 1972. Produced by Guy Carawan.
  • George Tucker, Kentucky Coal Miner. Rounder Records, #0064, 1975. Collected and recorded by Guy Carawan in Beaver, KY.
  • China: Music from the Peoples’ Republic. Rounder Records, #4008, CD, 1976. Recorded in China by Guy and Candie Carawan.
  • Sing for Freedom, Southwide Workshop. Folkways Records, FD#5488, 1980. Produced by Guy & Candie Carawan, Highlander Center. Recorded at the Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, GA, at a workshop with Freedom Singers, Birmingham Movement Choir, Georgia Sea Island Singers, Doc Reese, Phil Ochs, and Len Chandler.
  • They’ll Never Keep Us Down: Women’s coal mining songs. Rounder Records, #4012, 1983. Includes Hazel Dickens, Sarah Gunning, Florence Reece, Phyllis Boyens, Reel World String Band. Dedicated to Sarah Gunning who died October 14, 1983. Produced by Guy & Candie Carawan for Rounder.
  • Sing for Freedom. Smithsonian Folkways, SF#40032, CD, 1990. A compilation of material from the six LPs. Selected by Guy & Candie Carawan.
  • Been in the Storm So Long. Smithsonian Folkways, SF#40031, CD, 1990. A compilation of material from the two LPs. Selected by Guy & Candie Carawan.
  • Coal Mining Women. Rounder Records, #4025, CD, 1997. Selections from two previous coal LPs. Conceived and selected by Guy and Candie Carawan.

Personal Recordings

  • Songs with Guy Carawan, vol. 1, Folkways Records, FG 3544, 1950.
  • Guy Carawan Sings: Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue, Folkways Records, FG 3548, 1959.
  • This Little Light of Mine, Folkways Records, FG 3552, 1960.
  • The Best of Guy Carawan, Prestige International, #13013, 1961.
  • A Guy Called Carawan, E.M.I. Records, Middlesex, England, SX 6065, 1965.
  • Freedom Now! Songs for a New America (with Candie Carawan), Plane Records, Germany, #55301, 1968.
  • The Telling Takes Me Home, Cur Non Records, cnl 722, 1972.
  • Sitting on Top of the World & Mountain Songs (double album), Intercord Xenophon, Germany, Int. 181.012, 1974.
  • Sitting on Top of the World, American version (with Candie Carawan), self produced, 1975.
  • Green Rocky Road, June Appal Recordings, JA 0021, 1976.
  • Jubilee, June Appal Recordings, JA 0029, 1979.
  • Songs of Struggle and Celebration, Flying Fish Records, FC 27272, 1982.
  • My Rhinoceros and Other Friends, (children's songs), A Gentle Wind, GW 1023, 1983.
  • High on a Mountain, self-produced (cassette only), 1984.
  • Hammer Dulcimer Music (with Evan Carawan), Flying Fish Records, FF 329, 1984.
  • The Land Knows You're There, Flying Fish Records, FF 391, 1986.
  • Old Blue & Other Favorites, self-produced (cassette only), 1990.
  • Tree of Life (Arbol de La Vida), Flying Fish Records, FF 525, 1990.
  • Homebrew (The Carawan Family), Flying Fish Records, FF 609, 1992.
  • Sparkles & Shines, Ponder Productions, 1999.

Included on Albums with Others

  • Several albums released in England in the late 1950s, including America at Play with Peggy Seeger.
  • Songs for Peace, Folk Freak Records, FF 4010, 1983.
  • I’m Gonna Let it Shine: A Gathering of Voices for Freedom, Round River Records, RRR 401, 1990.
  • Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Songs of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, Folk Era, FE 1419, 1994.
  • Classic Protest Songs from Smithsonian Folkways, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, SFW40197, 2009.

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