Hi everyone—after an unexpected family emergency and a brief unplanned break last week, we’re glad to be back with a new Suggested Listening and Viewing post. This week, we’re shining the spotlight on classic folk and country music, with a special focus on recordings released before 1960.
Have a great weekend,
Linda Reimer, SSCL
First off the music!
Coffee Blues by Mississippi John Hurt
Found on the Album: The Best of (1998)
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Dandelion River Run by Mimi And Richard Fariña
Found on the Album: Celebrations For a Grey Day (2006)
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Dust Bowl Blues by Woody Guthrie
Found on the Album: Dust Bowl Ballads (1940)
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I Wanna Be A Cowboy’s Sweetheart by Patsy Montana
Found on the Album: The Cowboy’s Sweetheart (1988)
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Jack of Spades by Manse Liscomb
Found on the Album: N/A
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Little Old Log Cabin by Fiddlin’ John Carson
Found on the Album: N/A
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The Praties They Grow Small by Carolyn Hester
Found on the Album: This Life I’m Living (1963)
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Solidarity Forever by the Almanac Singers
Found on the Album: Talking Union and Other Union Songs (1955)
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Soldier’s Joy by The Skillet Lickers
Found on the Album: Old-Time Fiddle Tunes And Songs From North Georgia (2015)
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Violets of Dawn by Eric Andersen
Found on the Album: Violets Of Dawn (2006)
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And onto the Streaming Videos:
A new title available through one of the usual U.S. streaming services, followed by a Kanopy title that you can check out with your library card and stream on-demand.
Mainstream Stream (Available through one of the usual streaming services)
Imperfect Women (2026) (Apple TV+)
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Kanopy Streaming Pick of the Week (A title available to library card holders)
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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.
And The Digital Catalog/Libby features titles that may be checked out via the one-copy-one-user lending model, just like print books.
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Hoopla Catalog: https://www.hoopladigital.com/
The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron checkout 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.
Titles in the Hoopla Catalog are available to be checked out on-demand by all library card holders, with the caveat of being able to check out a maximum of ten titles per month, per card.
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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).
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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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