Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume 4 (Edited By Harry Smith)
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2000-05-23
Music Label: Revenant Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Memphis Shakedown - Memphis Jug Band
- Dog And Gun (An Old English Ballad) - Bradley Kincaid
- Black Jack David - The Carter Family
- Down On The Banks Of The Ohio - Blue Sky Boys
- Adieu False Heart - Arthur Smith Trio
- John Henry Was A Little Boy - J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
- Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy - Monroe Brothers
- Southern Casey Jones - Jesse James
- Cold Iron Bed - Jack Kelly And His South Memphis Jug Band
- Packin' Trunk - Lead Belly
- Baby Please Don't Go - Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers
- Last Fair Deal Gone Down - Robert Johnson
- Parchman Farm Blues - Bukka White
- Mean Old World - Heavenly Gospel Singers
- Hello Stranger - The Carter Family
- Stand By Me - Sister Clara Hudmon
- West Virginia Gals - Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters
- How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? - Blind Alfred Reed
- Wreck Of The Tennessee Gravy Train - Uncle Dave Macon
- Governor Al Smith - Uncle Dave Macon
- Milk Cow Blues - John Estes
- No Depression In Heaven - The Carter Family
- I'll Be Rested (When The Roll Is Called) - Roosevelt Graves And Brother
- He's In The Ring (Doing The Same Old Thing) - Memphis Minnie
- The Cockeyed World - Minnie Wallace
- Barbecue Bust - Mississippi Jook Band
- Dans Le Grand Bois (In The Forest) - Hackberry Ramblers
- Aces' Breakdown - The Four Aces
Music reviews of Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume 4 (Edited By Harry Smith)
Music Review: I'd give this album six stars if I could!
Rating: 5 Stars
It's hard to imagine that anything could be better than the original Folkways box set (Volumes 1-3), but this album is. Everything I love about V1-3, there is even more of here. The eerie juxtaposition of darkness and jubilation pretty much sums up the whole 20th Century in an hour and a half. Yes, it's short and pricey, but better in my mind to preserve Smith's original vision - after all, he scuttled the original release of this album in order to stay true to that vision.
Description of Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume 4 (Edited By Harry Smith)
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 VerlindeGeneral CDs
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