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Josh White
American musician
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Elektra Records
- In Elektra Records: Village Folk to “Riders on the Storm”
…recorded albums by Jean Ritchie, Josh White, and Theodore Bikel achieved substantial sales without the need for expensive marketing or hit singles, even after Elektra moved to offices on West 14th Street near Greenwich Village. But, while the other labels mostly stuck to traditional notions of folk, Elektra adapted in…
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recorded by Lomax
- In Alan Lomax
Guthrie, Muddy Waters, Josh White, and Burl Ives. In 1938 he made a series of recordings with the jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton. From 1951 to 1958 he was in Europe, recording hundreds of folk songs in Great Britain, Italy, and Spain.
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