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Harry Smith - Anthology Of American Folk Music (1997)

Harry Smith - Anthology Of American Folk Music (1997)

BAND/ARTIST: Harry Smith

  • Title: Anthology Of American Folk Music
  • Year Of Release: 1997
  • Label: Smithsonian Folkways – SFW 40090
  • Genre: Folk, Delta Blues, Gospel
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks+booklet)
  • Total Time: 04:16:43
  • Total Size: 1.49 GB
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Tracklist:

CD1
1. Dick Justice - Henry Lee (3:29)
2. Nelstone's Hawaiians - Fatal Flower Garden (2:58)
3. Clarence Ashley - The House Carpenter (3:17)
4. Coley Jones - Drunkard's Special (3:16)
5. Bill & Belle Reed - Old Lady and the Devil (3:05)
6. Buell Kazee - The Butcher's Boy (3:05)
7. Buell Kazee - The Wagoner's Lad (3:06)
8. Chubby Parker - King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O (3:10)
9. Uncle Eck Dunford - Old Shoes and Leggins (3:02)
10. Richard Burnett & Leonard Rutherford - Willie Moore (3:17)
11. Buster Carter & Preston Young - A Lazy Farmer Boy (3:00)
12. The Carolina Tar Heels - Peg and Awl (3:00)
13. G. B. Grayson - Ommie Wise (3:12)
14. Kelly Harrell - My Name is John Johanna (3:13)

CD2
1. Edward L. Crain - Bandit Cole Younger (2:57)
2. Kelly Harrel - Charles Giteau (3:06)
3. The Carter Family - John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man (2:58)
4. The Williamson Brothers and Curry - Gonna Die with my Hammer in My Hand (3:27)
5. Frank Hutchison - Stackalee (3:01)
6. Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers - White House Blues (3:31)
7. Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie (3:29)
8. William & Versey Smith - When That Great Ship Went Down (2:59)
9. The Carter Family - Engine 143 (3:20)
10. Furry Lewis - Kassie Jones (6:16)
11. The Bently Boys - Down on Penny's Farm (2:50)
12. The Masked Marvel - Mississippi Boweavil Blues (3:10)
13. The Carolina Tar Heels - Got the Farm Land Blues (3:17)

CD3
1. Uncle Bunt Stephens - Sail Away Lady (2:58)
2. Jilson Setters - The Wild Wagoner (3:17)
3. Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers - Wake Up Jacob (2:55)
4. Delma Lachney & Blind Uncle Gaspard - La Danseuse (2:57)
5. Andrew & Jim Baxter - Georgia Stomp (2:48)
6. Eck Robertson - Brilliancy Medley (3:02)
7. Hoyt Ming & his Pep-Steppers - Indian War Whoop (3:13)
8. Henry Thomas - Old Country Stomp (2:55)
9. Jim Jackson - Old Dog Blue (3:04)
10. Columbus Fruge - Saut Crapaud (2:50)
11. Joseph Falcon - Acadian One-Step (3:00)
12. The Breaux Freres - Home Sweet Home (3:00)
13. The Cincinnati Jug Band - Newport Blues (2:58)
14. Frank Cloutier and the Victoria Cafe Orchestra - Moonshiner's Dance Part One (2:40)

CD4
1. Rev. J. M. Gates - Must Be Born Again (1:31)
2. Rev. J. M. Gates - Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting (1:29)
3. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Rocky Road (2:45)
4. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Present Joys (2:53)
5. Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1 - This Song of Love (2:59)
6. Sister Mary Nelson - Judgement (2:25)
7. Memphis Sanctified Singers - He Got Better Things for You (2:55)
8. The Elders McIntorsh & Edwards' Sanctified Singers - Since I Laid My Burden Down (3:19)
9. Rev. Moses Mason - John the Baptist (3:05)
10. Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Dry Bones (3:01)
11. Blind Willie Johnson - John the Revelator (3:21)
12. The Carter Family - Little Moses (3:14)
13. Ernest Phipps & Holiness Singers - Shine On Me (3:04)
14. Rev. F. W. McGee - Fifty Miles of Elbow Room (2:44)
15. Rev. D. C. Rice and Congregation - In the Battlefield for My Lord (3:20)

CD5
1. Clarence Ashley - The Coo Coo Bird (2:57)
2. Buell Kazee - East Virginia (3:01)
3. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Minglewood Blues (3:44)
4. Didier Hebert - I Woke up One Morning in May (3:04)
5. Richard ''Rabbit' Brown - James Alley Blues (3:07)
6. Dock Boggs - Sugar Baby (2:58)
7. Bascom Lamar Lunsford - I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground (3:22)
8. Ernest and Hattie Stoneman - Mountaineer's Courtship (2:44)
9. The Stoneman Family - The Spanish Merchant's Daughter (3:18)
10. The Memphis Jug Band - Bob Lee Junior Blues (3:11)
11. The Carter Family - Single Girl, Married Girl (2:47)
12. Cleoma Breaux & Joseph Falcon - La Vieux Soulard et Sa Femme [The Old Drunkard and His Wife] (3:11)
13. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Rabbit Foot Blues (2:58)
14. Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell - Expressman Blues (3:02)

CD6
1. Ramblin' Thomas - Poor Boy Blues (2:25)
2. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Feather Bed (3:16)
3. Dock Boggs - Country Blues (3:00)
4. Julius Daniels - 99 Year Blues (3:07)
5. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Prison Cell Blues (2:48)
6. Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave is Kept Clean (2:55)
7. Cleoma & Ophy Breaux & Joseph Falcon - C'est Si Triste Sans Lui (3:02)
8. Uncle Dave Macon - Way Down the Old Plank Road (3:02)
9. Uncle Dave Macon - Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line (3:15)
10. Mississippi John Hurt - Spike Driver Blues (3:17)
11. Memphis Jug Band - K.C. Moan (2:34)
12. J.P. Nestor - Train on the Island (3:01)
13. Ken Maynard - The Lone Star Trail (3:15)
14. Henry Thomas - Fishing Blues (2:45)

The Anthology of American Folk Music, edited by Harry Smith (1923–1991), is one of the most influential releases in the history of recorded sound. Originally issued by Folkways Records in 1952, the Anthology brought virtually unknown parts of America's musical landscape recorded in the late 1920s and early 1930s to the public's attention. For more than half a century, the collection has profoundly influenced fans, ethnomusicologists, music historians, and cultural critics; it has inspired generations of popular musicians, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Jerry Garcia, and countless others. Many of the songs included in the Anthology have now become classics, as has Harry Smith’s unique "scientific/aesthetic handbook" of song notes and drawings. Reissued by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 1997, this deluxe 6-CD collector's boxed set contains a 96-page book featuring Harry Smith's original liner notes and essays by Greil Marcus and other noted writers, musicians, and scholars.

“[The] Anthology was our bible…. We all knew every word of every song on it, including the ones we hated. They say that in the 19th-century British Parliament, when a member would begin to quote a classical author in Latin the entire House would rise in a body and finish the quote along with him. It was like that.” – Dave Van Ronk

“Had he never done anything with his life but this Anthology, Harry Smith would still have borne the mark of genius across his forehead. I'd match the Anthology up against any other single compendium of important information ever assembled. Dead Sea Scrolls? Nah. I'll take the Anthology.” – John Fahey

“First hearing the Harry Smith Anthology of American FoIk Music is like discovering the secret script of so many familiar musical dramas. Many of these actually turn out to be cousins two or three times removed, some of whom were probably created in ignorance of these original riches. It also occurred to me that as we are listening at a greater distance in time to a man or woman singing of their fairly recent past of the 1880s, we are fortunate that someone collected these performances of such wildness, straightforward beauty, and humanity." – Elvis Costello



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