Anthology Of American Folk Music

Various Artists
Various
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Number of Discs: 6
Format: Audio CD
Release date:19th August 1997

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Track Listing

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 [Loving Nancy] - Traditional
8. King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O - Parker, Charlie [1]
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
15. Bandit Cole Younger - Crain, Edward L.
16. Charles Giteaux
17. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man - Carter, A.P.
18. Gonna Die With My Hammer in My Hand - Traditional
19. Stackalee - Hutchison, Frank
20. White House Blues - Monroe, Bill [1]
21. Frankie - Hurt, Mississippi J
22. When That Great Ship Went Down - Traditional
23. Engine 143 - Carter, A.P. Lyrics
24. Kassie Jones - Lewis, Furry
25. Down on Penny's Farm
26. Mississippi Boweavil Blues
27. Got the Farm Land Blues - Traditional
28. Sail Away Ladies [Fiddle Solo]
29. The Wild Wagoner [Frolic Tune] - Setters, Jilson
30. Wake up Jacob - Traditional
31. La Danseuse [The Dancer]
32. Georgia Stomp - Baxter, Andrew
33. Brilliancy Medley - Robertson, A.C.
34. Indian War Whoop [Country Dance] - Ming, Hoyt "Floyd"
35. Old Country Stomp - Thomas, Henry [1]
36. Old Dog Blue - Jackson, Jim [1]
37. Saut' Crapaud [Jump, Frog]
38. Arcadian One-Step
39. Home Sweet Home - AmedÃ©e
40. Newport Blues - Coleman, Bob
41. Moonshiner's Dance (Pt. 1) - Cloutier, Frank
42. You Must Be Born Again - Gates, J.M.
43. Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting
44. Rocky Road - Traditional
45. Present Joys - Traditional
46. This Song of Love
47. Judgement
48. He Got Better Things for You - Roberts, T.
49. Since I Laid My Burden Down
50. John the Baptist [Singing Sermon] - Parth, Johnny
51. Dry Bones - Traditional
52. John the Revelator - Goodman, Rusty
53. Little Moses - Carter, A.P.
54. Shine on Me - Phillips, Ernest
55. Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
56. I'm in the Battlefield for My Lord - Rice, Rev. D.C.
57. The Cuckoo - Traditional
58. East Virginia - Traditional
59. Minglewood Blues - Lewis, Noah
60. I Woke up One Morning in May
61. James Alley Blues - Brown, Richard [1]
62. Sugar Baby - Traditional
63. I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground - Traditional
64. The Mountaineer's Courtship
65. The Spanish Merchant's Daughter - Stoneman, Ernest
66. Bob Lee Junior Blues - Clayton, Jennie Mae
67. Single Girl, Married Girl - Carter, A.P.
68. Le Vieux Soulard et Sa Femme [The Old Drunkard and His Wife]
69. Rabbit Foot Blues - Jefferson, Blind Le
70. Expressman Blues - Rachell, James
71. Poor Boy Blues - Thomas, Willard
72. Feather Bed - Cannon, Gus
73. Country Blues - Boggs, Dock
74. 99 Years Blues - Daniels, Julius
75. Prison Cell Blues - Jefferson, Blind Le Lyrics
76. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Jefferson, Blind Le
77. C'Est Si Triste Sans Lui [It Is So Blue Without Him]
78. Way Down the Old Plank Road - Traditional
79. Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line - Macon, Uncle Dave
80. Spike Driver Blues - Hurt, Mississippi J Lyrics
81. K.C. Moan - Blackman, Tewee
82. Train on the Island - Nestor, J.P.
83. The Lone Star Trail - Traditional
84. Fishin' Blues - Thomas, Henry [1]

Album Description

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

Amazon.com

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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