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This Friday’s Staff Pick

Staff pick Friday! Smithsonian Folkways intern Linnea Jimison recommends The Original Folkways Recordings of Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley, 1960-1962. Listen to “Old Ruben” from this two-disc collection http://goo.gl/E70dB. Brought together by Ralph Rinzler, the two started performing in various settings across the USA, spurring Ashley’s comeback and launching Watson’s solo career in the wake of the urban folk revival of the 1960s. http://goo.gl/ytcvW