Anthology Of American Folk Music (Edited By Harry Smith)

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Anthology Of American Folk Music (Edited By Harry Smith)

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Tracks:

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
15. Bandit Cole Younger - Crain, Edward L.
16. Charles Giteaux

Review:

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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