| mercury blues | k c douglas | 15 country blues classics | arhoolie |
| palm wine boys | old story | old stories | wildplum |
| stan ato bortsie, et al | ompeh | smithsonian folkways world folk music collection | smithsonian folkways |
| robert johnson | preaching blues | cross road blues | proper |
| jim henry | deep river blues | one horse town | |
| mississippi fred mcdowell | got to move | a taste of tradition | ryko |
| john lee hooker | you're leaving me baby | thats my story folk blues of jlh | ace |
| Ali Farka Toure | Amadinin | Radio Mali | World Circuit Nonesuch |
| Lightning Hopkins | Baby Please Don't Go | Vanguard Roots of Folk | Vanguard |
| David Bromberg | Big Road | Try Me One More Time | Appleseed |
| Odetta | Hold On | The Essential Odetta | Vanguard |
| Aretha Franklin | Chain of Fools | Theme Time Radio Hour | |
| Bajourou | I Ka Di Nye | Big String Theory | xenophile |
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| Mississippi John Hurt | Candy Man | Roots of Ry Cooder | |
| Chuck Berry | Memphis Tennessee | You Can't Catch Me | |
| willie nelson & wynton Marsalis | Georgia | Two Men With The Blues | |
| John Fahey | Worried Blues | Return of the Repressed | Rhino |
| Henri Pierre Koubaka | Jamma Ley Niann | home recording | home recording |
| Ray Charles | Unchain My Heart | Ray | |
| Nina Simone | See Line Woman | Anthology | RCA |
| Charlie Parker and the Ri Bop Boys | Ko Ko | Bebop's Greatest Hits | Rhino |
| Bela Fleck & Haruna Samake Trio | Throw Down Your Heart | Throw Down Your Heart | Rounder |
| Kelly Joe Phelps | Good Night Irene | Shine Eyed Mister Zen | Rykodisc |
| Cootie Williams & his Rug Cutters | Echoes of Harlem | Sentimental Journey | sony |
| Alicia Keys | As I Am | As I Am | J Records |
| Vieux Farka Toure | Souba Souba | Fondo | six degrees |
| Solo Cissokho & Kristen Braten Berg | Bitilo | From Senegal to Setesdal | six degrees |
| Ben Harper | Whipping Boy | Welcome To The Cruel World | Virgin |
| Rev Sister Mary Nelson | Judgement | Anthology of American Folk Music | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Leadbelly | Leavin' Blues | Bourgeois Blues | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Bruce Cockburn | Elegy | Speechless | Rounder |
| Etta Baker | Nobody's Business | Railroad Bill | Music Maker |
| Doug Cox & Salil Bhatt | Blessings | Slide To Freedom | Northern Blues |
| Daithi Sproule | Taylors Falls | Crow In The Sun | New Folk Records/Allegro |
| Dave Brubeck | Everybody's Jumpin' | Time Out | Columbia |
| Dagoberto Linhares | Vivaldi Guitar Concerto Largo | Guitar Concertos | Naxos |
| Ludwig Van Beethoven | Allegro | Spring Sonata | DHM |
| Brian Cutean | Painting Shredded Wheat | Guitarred and Feathered | Brian Cutean |
| Victoria Dondysh | capricchio from Partita #2 | JS Bach6 Partitas for Clavier | ECM |
| Richard Searles | Reigentanz | Dance of the Renaissance | Earth Dance Music |
