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 The David H. Hickman High School American Roots Music Listening Library

 

**Also visit the new International Listening Library Collection page**

New in 2009! Roll over Chuck Berry and tell John Cage the news:
The Classical Music Listening Library.

 

The American Roots Music Listening Library is designed to enhance students' learning about their own culture, facilitate their understanding of how their own favorites genres of music developed, and, frankly, stimulate their pride in a national body of music that, despite the claims of uncomprehending Europhilic highbrows, is as rich, diverse, and true to the human spirit as any that man has produced.

Below is a description of the library's current holdings. The curators of this collection intend to add gradually to its inventory until it represents our music from its beginnings to the present. If you have comments or requests, please e-mail Phil Overeem at povereem@columbia.k12.mo.us . Many thanks to the Assistance League of Mid-Missouri, the Hickman PTSA, Music is Revolution, and the Conrad Stawski Endowment for the Humanities, without whose largesse this collection would not exist.

 

For additional resources, check out the Daniel Boone Regional Library's extensive CD collection, accessible through the library's website and search engine.
For further biographical or discographical information on any artist in our collection, visit the online version of the All Music Guide.

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Browse the Lists and Descriptions

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

 

25 All-Time Doo Wop Hits

2Pac: Greatest Hits

A

Aerosmith: Greatest Hits

Afrika Bambaataa: Looking for the Perfect Beat 1980-1985

Alligator Stomp: Cajun and Zydeco Classics

Allman Brothers Band: Martin Scorsese presents...

American Pop: From Minstrels to Mojos

Anderson, John: Greatest Hits

American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 (DVD)

American Roots Music (DVD)

Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Animaniacs: Variety Pack (Donated by Kathryn Roberts)

Anthology of American Folk Music

Arcade Fire: Neon Bible

Armstrong, Louis: The Hot Fives and Sevens, Vol 1,2,3

Armstrong, Louis: Ken Burns Jazz

The Art of 16 Bars (Hip Hop DVD)

Atlantic Rhythm and Blues, Vol. 6, 1966-1969

 

B

B-52s: Nude on the Moon - The B-52s Anthology

Baby Gramps: Same Ol' Timeously and Baptized on Swamp Water

Bad Brains: Black Dots

Balkan Beatbox: Balkan Beatbox

Band: The Band

Beach Boys: The Sounds of Summer

Beastie Boys: Licensed to Ill

Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique

Beatles: Anthology 1 (Donated by Christian and Paige Reed)

Beatles: Beatles 1

Beatles: Revolver

Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Donated by Dr. Christian Reed)

Beautiful Dreamer - The Songs of Stephen Foster

Beck: Mutations (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Beck: Odelay (Review by Jordan Maze)

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo

Bernstein, Leonard: An American Life

Berry, Chuck: The Great 28

The Best of Bond...James Bond

The Best of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues, Vol. 1

The Best of Sugar Hill Records

The Best There Ever Was—Legendary Early Blues

Big Star: Radio City

Bikini Kill: The CD Version of the First Two Records

Bjork: Homogenic (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Black Flag: Wasted...Again

Black Power - Music of a Revolution

Black Sabbath: We Sold Our Souls for Rock and Roll

Black Star: Mos Def and Talib Qweli are Black Star

Bloc Party: Silent Alarm (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Bloody War--Songs 1924-1939

Bottlerockets: Blue Sky

Blondie: Parallel Lines

Booker T and the MGs: The Best of Booker T and the MGs

Bowie, David: Best of Bowie

Bright Eyes: Lifted (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Brown, James: Live at the Apollo, 1962

Brown, James: Live at the Apollo, Volume 2 (2 CDs)

Buckley, Jeff: Grace (Review by John Grupe)

Built to Spill: There's Nothing Wrong with Love (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Byrds: Greatest Hits 

C

Captain Beefheart: The Dust Blows Forward (An Anthology)

The Carter Family: Country Legends

Cash, Johnny: Live at Folsom Prison and San Quentin

Charles, Ray: The Very Best of Ray Charles--The Atlantic Years

Chesnutt, Mark: Greatest Hits

Chic: The Very Best of Chic

Civil War

Clapton, Eric/John Mayall: Bluesbreakers

Clash: London Calling

Cliff, Jimmy: The Harder They Come

Cline, Patsy: 12 Greatest Hits

Clinton, George: Computer Games

Coasters: The Very Best of the Coasters

Cocker, Joe: Joe Cocker!

Cohen, Leonard: The Essential Leonard Cohen

Cole, Nat King: After Midnight

Coleman, Ornette: Free Jazz

Coleman, Ornette: The Shape of Jazz to Come

Coltrane, John: Giant Steps

Coltrane, John: A Love Supreme -- Deluxe Edition

Comomusic Anthology, Vol. 1, 1990-2005

Comomusic Anthology, Vol. 2, 1990-2005

Cooder, Ry: Paradise and Lunch

Cooke, Sam: Portrait of a Legend, 1951-1964

Copeland, Aaron: Greatest Hits

Cornershop: When I Was Born for the Seventh Time

Cray, Robert: Some Rainy Morning

Cray, Robert: Strong Persuader

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Chronicle - The 20 Greatest Hits

Cypress Hill: Cypress Hill

 

D

Daft Punk: Musique Vol. 1 1993-2005 (Review by Jordan Maze)

Das Kompilation (Columbia MO Music)

Davis, Miles: Birth of the Cool

Davis, Miles: Kind of Blue

Dazed and Confused (Soundtrack)

Dead Moon: Unknown Passage (DVD)

De La Soul: 3 Feet High and Rising

Decemberists: The Crane's Wife (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Derek and the Dominoes: Layla

Descendents: Two Things At Once

Detroit Cobras: Life, Love and Leaving

Diddley, Bo: His Best

Dion and the Belmonts: Dion Hits

Dirtbombs: Ultraglide in Black

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band: Voodoo

The Disco Years, Volume One - Turn the Beat Around

Dixie Chicks: Fly

Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing! (DVD)

DJ Shadow: Endtroducing...

Dr. John: Gumbo

Domino, Fats: My Blue Heaven

Doors: The Best of the Doors

Dorsey, Lee: Working in a Coalmine - The Very Best of Lee Dorsey

Drifters: Golden Hits

Drive-By Truckers: The Dirty South

Dylan, Bob: Biograph

Dylan, Bob: Blonde on Blonde

Dylan, Bob: Highway 61 Revisited

Dylan, Bob: John Wesley Harding

 

E

Earth, Wind and Fire : Greatest Hits

Ellington, Duke: At Newport

Ellington, Duke: Ken Burns Jazz

Elliott, Missy: Under Construction

Eminem: Curtain Call

Eric B. & Rakim: The Millenium Collection

Etheridge, Melissa: Greatest Hits -- The Road Less Travelled

F

Fitzgerald, Ella :75th Anniversary Collection

Fitzgerald, Ella: Pure Ella

Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Fleetwood Mac: Rumours

Flying Burrito Brothers: The Gilded Palace of Sin

Stephen Foster (Metropolitan Music Ensemble): Stephen Foster

Franklin, Aretha: The Queen of Soul

Freestyle—The Art of Rhyme (DVD)

The Freshest Kids (Hip Hop DVD)

Frizzell, Lefty : 16 Greatest Hits

From Spirituals to Swing - The Legendary Carnegie Hall Concerts

Fugazi: 13 Songs

Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove

 

G

Gaillard, Slim: Laughin' in Rhythm - The Verve Years

Gang of Four: Entertainment! (Expanded and Remastered)

Gaye, Marvin: The Best of Marvin Gaye

Getdarker Presents This Dubstep

Ghostface Killah: Fishscale

Girl Group Greats

Girltalk: Nightripper

Go Go's: Greatest Hits

Gogol Bordello : Gypsy Punk - Under World Strike

Goodbye, Babylon!

Good News - 100 Gospel Greats

The Gories: I Know You Fine, But How You Doin’?

Grateful Dead: Workingman's Dead

Greatest Hits - Cartoons (Donated by Kathryn Roberts)

Green, Al: Greatest Hits

Green Day: American Idiot (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Guns 'N' Roses: Appetite for Destruction

Guthrie, Arlo: The Best of Arlo Guthrie

Guthrie, Woody: Dust Bowl Ballads

 

H

Haggard, Merle: 20 Greatest Hits

Harris, Corey: Greens from the Garden

Harvey, PJ: To Bring You My Love

Have a Nice Decade - The '70s Pop Culture Box

The Heavy Metal Box

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced?

Hill, Lauryn: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Review by Jordan Maze)

Hip Hop Box

Hitsville USA - The Motown Singles Collection

Hold Steady : Boys and Girls in America

Holiday, Billie: Lady Day--The Best of Billie Holiday

Holly, Buddy: The Definitive Collection

Hooker, John Lee: The Very Best of John Lee Hooker

Hopkins, Lightnin': Blues Kingpins

Howlin' Wolf: The Best of Howlin' Wolf - The Millenium Collection (Donated by Anne Shifley)

Howlin' Wolf: Howlin' Wolf/Moanin' in the Moonlight

Mississippi John Hurt: The Complete Studio Recordings

Husker Du: Zen Arcade

HYPE! (DVD: The birth of grunge)

 

J

Jackson, Michael: Off the Wall

Jackson, Wanda: Queen of Rockabilly

James, Elmore : Shake Your Moneymaker - The Best of the Fire Sessions

James, Etta: Tell Mama

Jay-Z: Life and Times of S. Carter

The Jazz Age - New York in the Twenties

Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow

Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy

Jett, Joan: Fit to Be Tied - Greatest Hits of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced?

John, Elton: Greatest Hits

Johnson, Robert: King of the Delta Blues Singers

Jones, George: Anniversary--Ten Years of Hits

Jones, George: The Best of George Jones

Jones, Spike, and his City Slickers: Spiked! The Music of Spike Jones

Joplin, Janis: Greatest Hits

Joplin, Scott: Thompson Plays Joplin

Jordan, Louis: The Best of Louis Jordan

Jordan, Steve: The Return of El Parche

Joy Division: Permanent

Jurassic 5: Quality Control (Review by Jon Hadusek)

K

Kahuna Classics: A Collection of Surf Music

Kerouac, Jack: Reads On the Road

King. B. B.: Live at the Regal

King, Carole: Tapestry

The King's Record Collection, Volume 1

Kinks : Greatest Hits

Kiss: Greatest Kiss

L

L7: Bricks Are Heavy

Miranda Lambert: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

LCD Soundsystem: The Sound of Silver (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Leadbelly: Take This Hammer

Led Zeppelin: IV (ZOSO)

Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the Eighties Underground

Lewis, Jenny and the Watson Twins: Rabbit Fur Coat

Lewis, Jerry Lee: "Live" at the Star Club, Hamburg

Liliput/Kleenex

Lil’ Wayne: Tha Carter 2

Little Richard: The Georgia Peach

LL Cool J: All World

Lynn, Loretta: Loretta Lynn Country Music Hall of Fame

Lynyrd Skynyrd: All Time Greatest Hits (Donated by Janet Marsh)

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Gold & Platinum

Lynyrd Skynyrd: One More From the Road

 

M

MC5: Back in the U.S.A.

Madonna: The Immaculate Collection

Madvillain: Madvillainy (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs

Marley, Bob: Legend

Massive Attack: Blue Lines (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Mayfield, Curtis, and the Impressions: Anthology

McCoury, Del: A Deeper Shade of Blue

McEntire, Reba: Greatest Hits

Meat Puppets: Classic Puppets

Metallica: Ride the Lightning

M.I.A.: Kala

Miller, Emmett: Minstrel Man From Georgia

Miller, Steve: The Steve Miller Band’s Greatest Hits (donated by Tucker Flotmann)

Mingus, Charles: Ken Burns Jazz

Minor Threat : The Complete Discography

Minutemen: Double Nickles on the Dime

Mitchell, Joni: Blue

Modest Mouse: The Moon and Antarctica (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Monk, Thelonious: The Best of the Blue Note Years

Monroe, Bill, and His Bluegrass Boys: The Father of Bluegrass (The Early Years 1940-1947)

Monsters of Rock

Monterey Pop (DVD)

Morrison, Van: Astral Weeks

Morton, Jelly Roll: Bluebird's Best--The Jazz King of New Orleans

Motorhead: No Sleep At All

My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (Review by Jon Hadusek)

N

Nas: Illmatic

Nelson, Willie: Face of a Fighter

Nelson, Willie: Stardust

Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Newman, Randy: Sail Away

New York Dolls: New York Dolls

Nilsson: Personal Best--The Harry Nilsson Anthology

Nirvana: Incesticide

Nirvana: MTV Unplugged in New York

Nirvana: Nevermind

Nirvana: Nirvana

Nuggets From Nuggets - Choice Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era

 

O

O Brother Where Art Thou? (Soundtrack)

Oblivians: The Sympathy Sessions

Ocean of Sound

O'Connor, Sinead: So Far...The Best Of...

Old 97s: Hit by a Train - The Best of the Old 97s

Old Time Mountain Ballads

Orbison, Roy: For the Lonely: 18 Greatest Hits

OutKast: Aquemini

OutKast: Stankonia

P

Paisley, Brad: American Saturday Night

Parker, Charlie: Best of the Savoy and Dial Recordings

Parliament: The Bomb (Greatest Hits)

Parsons, Gram: GP/Grievous Angel

Patton, Charlie: Founder of the Delta Blues

Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

People Take Warning! Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs 1913-1938

Perez, Danilo: Central Avenue

Pink Floyd: Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd: The Wall

Pixies: Wave of Mutilation - Greatest Hits of the Pixies

Pogues: The Ultimate Collection

Presley, Elvis: The Complete Sun Sessions

Pretenders: The Singles

Primus: Pork Soda

Prince: The Hits, Volume 1 & 2

Prine, John: Prime Prine

Professor Longhair: Crawfish Fiesta

Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Public Image Limited: Second Edition

Pulp: Different Class (Review by Jon Hadusek)

R

Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Jazz in Silhouette

Radiohead: Kid A (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Radiohead: OK Computer (Review by John Grupe)

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

Raitt, Bonnie: The Bonnie Raitt Collection

Ramones: All the Stuff, Volume One

Red Hot Chili Peppers: What Hits!?

Redding, Otis: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul

Redpath, Jean: The Songs of Robert Burns, Vol 1. & 2

Reed, Jimmy: The Very Best of Jimmy Reed - Blues Masters

Reed, Lou: The Blue Mask

The Refused: The Shape of Punk to Come

Reggae Celebrates the Grateful Dead

R.E.M.: Document

Replacements: Let It Be

Rhapsodies in Black Music - Music and Words from the Harlem Renaissance

Ricochet: Blink of an Eye

Robinson, Tom: Power in the Darkness

Rockabilly Essentials

Rodgers, Jimmie: RCA Country Legends

Rolling Stones: High Tides and Green Grass

Rollins, Sonny: Ken Burns Jazz

Ronettes: The Best of the Ronettes

The Roots: Phrenology

The Roots of Robert Johnson

The Rose and Briar - Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad

Roxy Music: The Best of Roxy Music

Run-DMC: Greatest Hits

 

S

Sahm, Doug: The Best of Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet 1968-1975

Scratch (Hip Hop DVD)

Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

Shante, Roxanne - Greatest Hits

Shaver, Billy Joe: Unshaven—Live at Smith’s Olde Bar

Simon, Paul: Paul Simon

Sinatra, Frank: In the Wee Small Hours

Sinatra, Frank: Songs for Swingin' Lovers

Ska Giants

Sleater-Kinney: Dig Me Out

Sly and the Family Stone: Greatest Hits

Smith, Bessie: The Collection

Smith, Elliott: Either/Or (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Smith, Patti: Horses

Song of America

Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation

The Specials: The Singles Collection

Springfield, Dusty: Dusty in Memphis

Springsteen, Bruce: Born to Run

Stanley Brothers: The Best of the Best of the Stanley Brothers

Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic

Steinski: What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006

Stereolab: Serene Velocity - A Stereolab Anthology

Stewart, Rod: Every Picture Tells a Story

Stooges: Fun House

Strait, George: Greatest Hits

The Strokes: Is This It (Review by John Grupe)

Style Wars (Hip Hop DVD)

Sublime: Greatest Hits

Summer, Donna: On the Radio - Greatest Hits, Volume 1& 2

T

Talking Heads: Remain in Light

Tatum, Art: The Complete Capitol Recordings, Volume One (Donated by Greg Mees)

Taylor, Hound Dog: Hound Dog Taylor and The Houserockers

Texas Tornados: Texas Tornados

Tharpe, Sister Rosetta: Complete Recorded Works 1938-1944

That's Entertainment - The Best of the M-G-M Musicals (Donated by Kathryn Roberts)

This is Spinal Tap (DVD)

Titus Andronicus: The Monitor

Thompson, Butch: Thompson Plays Joplin

Travis, Randy: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1

A Tribe Called Quest: Low End Theory

Tubb, Ernest: The Definitive Collection

Turner, Big Joe: The Very Best of Big Joe Turner

TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain (Review by Jon Hadusek)

U

U2: The Best of 1980 - 1990

The Ultimate History of Rock and Roll: Chapter 4, Rockin' Instrumentals

The Unbroken Circle - The Musical Heritage of the Carter Family

Uncle Tupelo: 89/93 - An Anthology

V

Vaughan, Sarah: Ken Burns Jazz

Vaughan, Stevie Ray: In the Beginning

Vaughan, Stevie Ray and Double Trouble: The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

Velvet Underground: The Best of the Velvet Underground

Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes

W

Waits, Tom: Swordfishtrombones

West, Kanye: Late Registration (Review by Jon Hadusek)

Waters, Muddy: The Best of Muddy Waters

Whiskeytown: Pnemonia (Review by John Grupe)

The Wild and Wonderful World of The Whites (DVD

White Stripes: De Stijl

The Who: Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy

The Who: Who's Next

Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Review by John Grupe)

Williams, Hank: The Ultimate Collection

Williamson, Sonny Boy: The Down and Out Blues

Wills, Bob, and the Texas Playboys: The Tiffany Transcriptions, Volume 2- Best of the Tiffanys

Wire: Pink Flag

Wonder, Stevie: Talking Book

Woodstock (DVD)

Wray, Link: Rumble! The Best of Link Wray

Wu-Tang Clan: Legend of the Wu-Tang: Wu-Tang Clan's Greatest Hits

X

X: Wild Gift (Donated by Jami Wade)

X-Ray Spex: Germfree Adolescents

Y

Yardbirds: Greatest Hits

Yoakam, Dwight: Just Lookin' for a Hit

Young, Lester: Ken Burns Jazz

Young, Neil: Decade

Young, Neil and Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps

Z

Zappa, Frank and the Mothers of Invention: We're Only in It for the Money

Zero Boys: Vicious Circle

Zevon, Warren: Genius - The Best of Warren Zevon


Last Updated: July 9, 2008

 

 

 

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