The Mickey Hart Collection preserves and furthers the Grateful Dead percussionist’s endeavor to cross borders and expand musical horizons.

The collection features 25 albums performed, recorded, produced, or co-produced by Hart between 1974 and 2002. The previously out-of-print albums are again available on CD via the Smithsonian Folkways archival format, and are also available digitally (stream and download) for the first time.

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When renowned musician and songwriter Chip Taylor (“Wild Thing,” “Angel of the Morning”) became a grandfather, he directed his creative energy to writing new songs with and for his grandkids. Golden Kids Rules, which melds the musical instincts of a seasoned performer with the charming artistry of his three young grandchildren, is now available.

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• Congratulations to Professor Theodore Levin, who has won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for his liner notes to volumes 7, 8, and 9 of the Music of Central Asia series.
• Smithsonian Folkways remembers Lithuanian folklorist Jonas P. Balys (1909-2011), head librarian of the Library of Congress’s Slavic and Central European Division and producer of the 1955 Folkways Records album Lithuanian Folk Songs in the United States.