Smithsonian Folkways can make a custom cassette for you of HORTON BARKER's great LP that was recorded for them by Sany Paton. Mr. Barker, from Chilhowie, Virginia was a blind man who just blew away the urban audiences at the first University of Chicago Folk Festival in 1961. A marvelous person and a GREAT ballad singer.

EMERY DENOYER---another blind ballad singere but from the lumber woods (lumberjack songs) can be heard on several of the Library Of Congress LPs---now available in other formats I believe. He was my personal favorite a capella singer-----but there are so amny.

ALMEDA RIDDLE is a great one.

the recordings of many fine singers made by the Canadian folklorist EDITH FOWKE and issued on Folkways (Smithsonian).
"Lumbering Songs From The Ontario Shanties
"Folksongs Of Ontario"
"Songs Of The Great Lakes"

"WOLF RIVER SONGS" collected in Wisconsin by Sidney Robertson Cowell and issued on Folkways also.

AUNT MOLLY JACKSON---the Library Of Congress Recordings.

JEANIE ROBERTSON (just a wondrous singer)

and the CD by ROY HARRIS---LIVE AT THE LION that I made a separate thread to talk about recently.

...there are so many...

Art Thieme