Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie and the barking tree frogs are finally going online.
Some 30,000 songs from the legendary Smithsonian Folkways catalog--field recordings of folk and blues, world and children's music, jazz, nature sounds and poetry--went on sale this week on Microsoft's MSN Music store for 99 cents apiece.
MSN Music, which began selling music last fall, will have the exclusive right to sell the Smithsonian catalog through September, executives at Microsoft and Smithsonian Folkways said.
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