Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume 4 (Edited By Harry Smith)

Harry Smith - Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume 4 (Edited By Harry Smith)

Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume 4 (Edited By Harry Smith)
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Artist: Harry Smith
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-05-23
Music Label: Revenant Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Memphis Shakedown - Memphis Jug Band
  2. Dog And Gun (An Old English Ballad) - Bradley Kincaid
  3. Black Jack David - The Carter Family
  4. Down On The Banks Of The Ohio - Blue Sky Boys
  5. Adieu False Heart - Arthur Smith Trio
  6. John Henry Was A Little Boy - J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
  7. Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy - Monroe Brothers
  8. Southern Casey Jones - Jesse James
  9. Cold Iron Bed - Jack Kelly And His South Memphis Jug Band
  10. Packin' Trunk - Lead Belly
  11. Baby Please Don't Go - Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers
  12. Last Fair Deal Gone Down - Robert Johnson
  13. Parchman Farm Blues - Bukka White
  14. Mean Old World - Heavenly Gospel Singers
Music CD 2
  1. Hello Stranger - The Carter Family
  2. Stand By Me - Sister Clara Hudmon
  3. West Virginia Gals - Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters
  4. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? - Blind Alfred Reed
  5. Wreck Of The Tennessee Gravy Train - Uncle Dave Macon
  6. Governor Al Smith - Uncle Dave Macon
  7. Milk Cow Blues - John Estes
  8. No Depression In Heaven - The Carter Family
  9. I'll Be Rested (When The Roll Is Called) - Roosevelt Graves And Brother
  10. He's In The Ring (Doing The Same Old Thing) - Memphis Minnie
  11. The Cockeyed World - Minnie Wallace
  12. Barbecue Bust - Mississippi Jook Band
  13. Dans Le Grand Bois (In The Forest) - Hackberry Ramblers
  14. Aces' Breakdown - The Four Aces

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Music Review: Commie/Folkies rejoice
Rating: 4 Stars

When the original Anthology of American Folk Music (Vols 1-3) was reissued a few years back , I picked it up and was amazed and thrilled with this bedrock of backwoods spirituality, a wellspring of so much music that I have enjoyed, Dylan, Cash, etc but didn't until then realize existed. Volume 4 was planned to be released back in the 50s or 60s but it never happened for some reason. But now it has been. It's safe to say that if you enjoyed the original you'll like this one, which picks up chronologically where the others left off. This one doesn't seem to be as thematically organized as Vol. 1-3, Ballads, Socials and Songs, but the feel is very much the same. The songs and especially the sense of a time long gone are haunting and exhilarating. My one beef is with the packaging. Instead of following the same sensible format of the original , this one comes packaged in a mini hardcover book with dark brown, ersatz faded recycled paper. It looks like a reissue of something that never was. While it is handsome, it will not fit in my CD holder next to 1-3. Plus it's filled with 96 pages pages of commentary by various members of the far left, gushing over the late great Harry Smith. It gives a heavy-handed sense of importance to what is really no more than a fine collection of lighthearted songs from a bygone musical era. Granted, the man knew how to put together a mean mix tape but I'm sure he'd be the first to say let the music do the talking. Let's just be thankful VH1 never used this packaging concept for its Big 80s series.
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Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music , which Revenant reissued last year, was the touchstone for countless folk and rock artists in the '60s; now the label has put together another 28 tracks of seminal early folk sides! Includes Parchman Farm Blues Bukka White; Dog and Gun (An Old English Ballad) Bradley Kincaid; John Henry Was a Little Boy J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers; Packin' Trunk Leadbelly; Milk Cow Estes John Estes; Dans Le Grand Bois (In the Forest) Hackberry Ramblers, and more.
Originally released in 1952, Harry Smith's landmark three-volume Anthology of American Folk Music literally instigated a revolution in music--suddenly, this collection of scratchy 78 sides made "folk" cool again (it would stay that way forever after). But Smith--filmmaker, guru, and alchemist--originally intended for a fourth volume of the set to be created. Thanks to Revenant, we have it now--nearly five decades after its gathering. Smith's two-CD collection takes works from the Blue Sky Boys, the Carter Family, Bukka White, Robert Johnson, and a dozen or so forgotten blues and old-time artists, mostly from the '20s and '30s. In the copious liner notes, the late Smith confesses that this volume was "lost" because his original liner notes went missing; he had hoped to create a thorough analysis of how each song's theme was interrelated. Thus, there are some truly great transitions--"John Henry Was a Little Boy" by J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers leads ironically into "Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy" by the Monroe Brothers; Lead Belly's breakup ode "Packin' Trunk" segues into Big Joe Williams's "Baby Please Don't Go." Gorgeous packaging and thorough liner notes by Dick Spottswood, Greil Marcus, Ed Sanders, and others makes this set even more essential. Like so many of the musicians he admired and promoted, Harry Smith's real genius wouldn't be recognized till after he died. Here it is, folks. --Jason Verlinde

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