Anthology Of American Folk Music

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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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Disc 1

1. Henry Lee
2. Fatal Flower Garden - Nelson
3. The House Carpenter - Traditional
4. Drunkard's Special - Traditional
5. Old Lady and the Devil
6. The Butcher's Boy (The Railroad Boy)
7. The Wagoner's Lad - Traditional
8. King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O - Parker, Charlie
9. Old Shoes and Leggins - Dunford, Eck
10. Willie Moore
11. A Lazy Farmer Boy - Traditional
12. Peg and Awl - Walsh
13. Omie Wise - Grayson, G.B.
14. My Name Is John Johanna

Disc 2

1. Bandit Cole Younger - Crain, Edward L.
2. Charles Giteaux
3. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man - Carter, A.P.
4. Gonna Die With My Hammer in My Hand - Traditional
5. Stackalee - Hutchison, Frank
6. White House Blues - Traditional
7. Frankie - Hurt, Mississippi J
8. When That Great Ship Went Down - Traditional
9. Engine 143 - Carter, A.P.
10. Kassie Jones - Lewis, Furry
11. Down on Penny's Farm
12. Mississippi Boweavil Blues
13. Got the Farm Land Blues - Traditional

Disc 3

1. Sail Away Ladies
2. The Wild Wagoner
3. Wake up Jacob - Traditional
4. La Danseuse
5. Georgia Stomp - Baxter, Andrew
6. Brilliancy Medley - Robertson, A.C.
7. Indian War Whoop - Ming, Hoyt "Floyd"
8. Old Country Stomp - Thomas, Henry [1]
9. Old Dog Blue - Jackson, Jim [1]
10. Saut' Crapaud
11. Arcadian One-Step
12. Home Sweet Home - Clifford
13. Newport Blues - Coleman, Bob
14. Moonshiner's Dance (Pt. 1) - Cloutier, Frank

Disc 4

1. You Must Be Born Again - Gates, J.M.
2. Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting
3. Rocky Road - Traditional
4. Present Joys - Traditional
5. This Song of Love
6. Judgement
7. He Got Better Things for You - Roberts, T.
8. Since I Laid My Burden Down
9. John the Baptist - Parth, Johnny
10. Dry Bones - Traditional
11. John the Revelator - Traditional
12. Little Moses - Carter, A.P.
13. Shine on Me - Phipps, Ernest
14. Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
15. I'm in the Battlefield for My Lord - Rice, Rev. D.C.

Disc 5

1. The Cuckoo - Traditional
2. East Virginia - Traditional
3. Minglewood Blues - Lewis, Noah
4. I Woke up One Morning in May
5. James Alley Blues - Brown, Richard [1]
6. Sugar Baby - Traditional
7. I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground - Traditional
8. The Mountaineer's Courtship
9. The Spanish Merchant's Daughter - Stoneman, Ernest
10. Bob Lee Junior Blues - Clayton, Jennie Mae
11. Single Girl, Married Girl - Carter, A.P.
12. Le Vieux Soulard et Sa Femme
13. Rabbit Foot Blues - Jefferson, Blind Le
14. Expressman Blues - Rachell, James

Disc 6

1. Poor Boy Blues - Thomas, Willard
2. Feather Bed - Cannon, Gus
3. Country Blues - Boggs, Dock
4. 99 Years Blues - Daniels, Julius
5. Prison Cell Blues - Jefferson, Blind Le
6. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Jefferson, Blind Le
7. C'Est Si Triste Sans Lui
8. Way Down the Old Plank Road - Traditional
9. Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line - Macon, Uncle Dave
10. Spike Driver Blues - Hurt, Mississippi J
11. K.C. Moan - Blackman, Tewee
12. Train on the Island - Nestor, J.P.
13. The Lone Star Trail - Traditional
14. Fishin' Blues - Thomas, Henry [1]

Title: Anthology Of American Folk Music (Edited By Harry Smith)
Sales Rank: 1645 in Music
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Smithsonian Folkways, 1997-08-19, Audio CD, 6 Discs
Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
Package Dimensions: 12.44 x 12.36 x 0.94 inches, 2.43 pounds

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