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