Anthology Of American Folk Music (Edited By Harry Smith)

Anthology Of American Folk Music (Edited By Harry Smith)

Anthology Of American Folk Music (Edited By Harry Smith)
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Brand: Unknown
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-08-19
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Henry Lee - Dick Justice
  2. Fatal Flower Garden - Nelstone's Hawaiians
  3. House Carpenter - Clarence Ashley
  4. Drunkard's Special - Coley Jones
  5. Old Lady and the Devil - Bill & Belle Reed
  6. Butcher's Boy (The Railroad Boy) - Buell Kazee
  7. Wagoner's Lad [Loving Nancy] - Buell Kazee
  8. King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O - Chubby Parker
  9. Old Shoes and Leggins - Uncle Eck Dunford
  10. Willie Moore - Richard Burnett, Leonard Rutherford
  11. Lazy Farmer Boy - Buster Carter, Preston Young
  12. Peg and Awl - The Carolina Tar Heels
  13. Omie Wise - G.B. Grayson
  14. My Name Is John Johanna - Kelly Harrell
Music CD 2
  1. Bandit Cole Younger - Edward L. Crain
  2. Charles Giteaux - Kelly Harrell
  3. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man - Carter Family
  4. Gonna Die With My Hammer in My Hand - Curry, The Williamson Brothers
  5. Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
  6. White House Blues - North Carolina Ramblers, Charlie Poole
  7. Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
  8. When That Great Ship Went Down - Versey Smith, William Smith
  9. Engine 143 - Carter Family
  10. Kassie Jones - Furry Lewis
  11. Down on Penny's Farm - The Bently Boys
  12. Mississippi Boweavil Blues - Masked Marvels
  13. Got the Farm Land Blues - The Carolina Tar Heels
Music CD 3
  1. Sail Away Ladies [Fiddle Solo] - Uncle Bunt Stephens
  2. Wild Wagoner [Frolic Tune] - Jilson Setters
  3. Wake up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
  4. Danseuse [The Dancer] - Blind Uncle Gaspard, Delma Lachney
  5. Georgia Stomp - Andrew & Jim Baxter
  6. Brilliancy Medley - Eck Robertson
  7. Indian War Whoop [Country Dance] - Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers
  8. Old Country Stomp - Henry Thomas
  9. Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson
  10. Saut' Crapaud [Jump, Frog] - Columbus Frug?
  11. Arcadian One-Step - Joseph Falcon
  12. Home Sweet Home - The Breaux Fr?res
  13. Newport Blues - Cincinnati Jug Band
  14. Moonshiner's Dance (Pt. 1) - Frank Cloutier, Victoria Cafe Orchestra
Music CD 4
  1. You Must Be Born Again - Reverend J.M. Gates
  2. Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting - Reverend J.M. Gates
  3. Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
  4. Present Joys - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
  5. This Song of Love - Middle Georgia Singing Convention
  6. Judgement - Rev. Sister Mary M. Nelson
  7. He Got Better Things for You - Memphis Sanctified Singers
  8. Since I Laid My Burden Down
  9. John the Baptist [Singing Sermon] - Rev. Moses Mason
  10. Dry Bones - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
  11. John the Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson
  12. Little Moses - Carter Family
  13. Shine on Me - Ernest Phipps
  14. Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee
  15. I'm in the Battlefield for My Lord - Rev. D.C. Rice & His Sanctified Congregation
Music CD 5
  1. Cuckoo - Clarence Ashley
  2. East Virginia - Buell Kazee
  3. Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
  4. I Woke up One Morning in May - Didier H?bert
  5. James Alley Blues - Richard Rabbit Brown
  6. Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs
  7. I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
  8. Mountaineer's Courtship - Ernest V. Stoneman, Hattie Stoneman
  9. Spanish Merchant's Daughter - The Stoneman Family, The Stonemans
  10. Bob Lee Junior Blues - Memphis Jug Band
  11. Single Girl, Married Girl - Carter Family
  12. Vieux Soulard et Sa Femme [The Old Drunkard and His Wife] - Cleoma Breaux, Joseph Falcon
  13. Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
  14. Expressman Blues - Sleepy John Estes
Music CD 6
  1. Poor Boy Blues - Ramblin' Thomas
  2. Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers
  3. Country Blues - Dock Boggs
  4. 99 Years Blues - Julius Daniels
  5. Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
  6. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
  7. C'Est Si Triste Sans Lui [It Is So Blue Without Him] - Cleoma Breaux, Ophy Breaux, Joseph Falcon
  8. Way Down the Old Plank Road - Uncle Dave Macon
  9. Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line - Uncle Dave Macon
  10. Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
  11. K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band
  12. Train on the Island - J.P. Nestor
  13. Lone Star Trail - Ken Maynard
  14. Fishin' Blues - Henry Thomas

Music reviews of Anthology Of American Folk Music (Edited By Harry Smith)

Music Review: more than I expected
Rating: 5 Stars

Being a music lover of all types and already having collections of songs from this era (the era is a small window of time between the advent of electronic recording and the commercial influence from the spread of radio and TV), I expected this to be just another collection of songs from this time period. It is much more than that! It stands alone as a work of art. There is one booklet that come with it that will explain the history of the anthology, its influence on the music of the sixties, and how much effort went in to cataloging details of the music. Another booklet was by Harry Smith and part of the original release. Every collection should have such a helpful and interesting book as he included! These are part of the experience as well. The songs are honest and excellent! It is hard to put a finger on it, so just put an ear to it. Harry Smith was an expert musicologist, a master in the field, with a huge and mysterious talent.

Description of Anthology Of American Folk Music (Edited By Harry Smith)

This deluxe 6-CD collector's boxed set contains a 96-page book featuring Harry Smith's original songbook framed by essays by Greil Marcus and other noted writers, musicians, and scholars. Play the enhanced sixth disc on your CD-ROM drive and access historic video footage, rare photos, artist interviews, and additional background information. Edited by Harry Smith. Reissue compiled by the staff of Smithsonian Folkways. Reissue liner notes by Greil Marcus, Neil Rosenberg, Jeff Place, Jon Pankake, Luis Kemnitzer and others. "...the missing link in rock's official history." -Newsweek ***** (five stars) -Rolling Stone
This impressive--and frankly, fun--musical document is still sending out shock waves almost 50 years after its original 1952 vinyl release. The Smithsonian's six-CD reissue is painstakingly researched, annotated, and packaged (even boasting an enhanced disc for the techno-capable). Unlike field recorders, eccentric filmmaker/collector/musicologist Harry Smith assembled the Anthology from commercially released (though obscure) 78 rpm discs issued between 1927 and 1935. Its broad scope--from country blues to Cajun social music to Appalachian murder ballads--was monumentally influential, setting musicians like Bob Dylan down the path to folk fandom. The White House started its own national music library with the Anthology; anyone with more than a passing interest in American roots music should do the same. --Michael Ruby

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