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Thread #157326   Message #3712424
Posted By: Joe Offer
28-May-15 - 04:13 AM
Thread Name: Book on early folk song collectors?
Subject: RE: Book on early folk song collectors?
Hi, Bob - I've been told by reputable sources that my personal library is the best folk songbook collection in Northern California. I'm still missing most 1950s and 1980s issues of Sing Out!, but I think I have most of the significant folk songbooks published in the US & Canada since 1900, plus a generous sample from the UK, Ireland, and Australia. Not bad on Germany, either.

I've also tried to have a representative collection of songbooks for pop, jazz, blues, Great American Songbook, hymnals, and Yiddish & Spanish songs. I used 'em all on the upcoming Rise Again Songbook, that goes to press next week.

-Joe-