Suggested Listening

Hi everyone, welcome to our Suggested Listening posting for this week!

Suggested Listening postings are published on Fridays; and our next Suggested Listening posting will be out on Friday, April 25, 2025.

And here are the 10 recommended songs of the week!

All Of Her Answers Were No by Peggy Seager 

 

Found On The Album: Songs of Courting And Complaint (1955)

  

 

 

Any Woman Blues by Ida Cox  

 

Found On The Album: Ida Cox Vol. 1 1923 (2005) 

 

 

 

Black Snake Blues by Victoria Spivey 

 

Found On The  Album: Songs We Taught Your Mother (1992) A collection featuring songs by Alberta Hunter, Lucille Hegamin & Victoria Spivey

 

 

  

Cowboy Waltz by Bess Lomax Hawes (mandolin), Pete Seeger & Woody Guthrie  

 

Found On The Album: N/A 

  

 

  

Hook And Line by Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson   

  

Found On The Album: What Did The Blackbird Say To The Crow (2025)  

  

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Muleskinner  Blues by Odetta  

 

 

Found On The Album: Sings Ballads And Blues (1956)  

  

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Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out by Alberta Hunter 

 

Found On The Album: Amtrack Blues (1980) 

 

 

 

Queen Eleanor’s Confession by Cynthia Gooding  

 

Found On The Album: Queen of Hearts: Early English Folk Songs (1953) (Not currently in print) 

 

 

  

Shady Grove by Jean Ritchie  

  

Found On The Album: Marching Across The Green Grass and Other American Children’s Game Songs (1968)  

  

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Wilson Rag by Elizabeth Cotten   

  

Found On The Album: When I’m Gone (1979)  

 

 

 

Hoopla Album of the Week 

What The Blackbird Said To The Crow (2025) by Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson  

And from the album the song 

Rain Crow 

 

 

 

Have a great weekend,

Linda Reimer, SSCL

Information on the four library catalogs

The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/

The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go!

All card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can check out items from the Digital Catalog.

Hoopla Catalog: https://www.hoopladigital.com/

The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron check out limit is 10 items per month.

Hoopla is a Southeast Steuben County Library service available to all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders.

The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players.

Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en

The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.

The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!

You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).

StarCat: The catalog of physical/traditional library materials: https://starcat.stls.org

Card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can access StarCat to search for and request materials available at libraries through out the Southern Tier Library System.

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