Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume 1-3 (6-CD)

Rolling Stone: Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."

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CD Details

Released: January 4, 2005
Originally Released: 1997
Label: Smithsonian Folkways

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - 5/13/99, p.52

Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."

Rolling Stone - 9/18/97, pp.101-102

5 Stars (out of 5) - "...it is impossible to overstate the historic worth, sociocultural impact and undiminished vitality of the music in this set, and of Smith's idiosyncratic scholarship and instinctive wisdom....a bedrock of our national musical identity..."

Spin - 1/98, p.88

Ranked #1 on Spin's list of "Top 10 Reissues."

Spin - 10/97, p.139

"...an exhaustively annotated six-CD set that has no competition as reissue of the year....between strength of material and force of vision, [Harry Smith] did nothing less than create a canon. At a time when folk music [included] Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie,...and the Lomax corpus, Harry Smith convinced the world that there was something far weirder and more exciting..."

Entertainment Weekly - 9/19/97, p.85

"...this definitive collection of blues, country, and gospel recordings inspired the American folk revival after its release in 1952. Now painstakingly remixed and remastered...ANTHOLOGY retains the primitive power of those seminal 78s while meeting the more exacting audio standards of the digital age." - Rating: A

Tracks on Disc 1:

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

Tracks on Disc 2:

1.Bandit Cole Younger - Edward L. Crain
2.Charles Giteaux - Kelly Harrell
3.John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man - The Carter Family
4.Gonna Die With My Hammer in My Hand - Curry / The Williamson Brothers / The Willliamson Brothers / Curry
5.Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
6.White House Blues - North Carolina Ramblers / Charlie Poole
7.Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
8.When That Great Ship Went Down - Versey Smith / William Smith
9.Engine 143 - The Carter Family
10.Kassie Jones - Furry Lewis
11.Down on Penny's Farm - The Bently Boys
12.Mississippi Boweavil Blues - Masked Marvels
13.Got the Farm Land Blues - The Carolina Tar Heels

Tracks on Disc 3:

1.Sail Away Ladies - Uncle Bunt Stephens
2.Wild Wagoner, The - Jilson Setters
3.Wake up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
4.Danseuse, La - Delma Lachney / Blind Uncle Gaspard
5.Georgia Stomp - Andrew & Jim Baxter
6.Brilliancy Medley - Eck Robertson
7.Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers (Country Dance mix)
8.Old Country Stomp - Henry Thomas
9.Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson
10.Saut' Crapaud - Columbus Frug,
11.Arcadian One-Step - Joseph Falcon
12.Home Sweet Home - The Breaux Fr,res
13.Newport Blues - Cincinnati Jug Band
14.Moonshiner's Dance (Pt. 1) - Victoria Cafe Orchestra / Frank Cloutier

Tracks on Disc 4:

1.You Must Be Born Again - Reverend J.M. Gates
2.Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting - Reverend J.M. Gates
3.Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
4.Present Joys - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
5.This Song of Love - Middle Georgia Singing Convention
6.Judgement - Rev. Sister Mary M. Nelson
7.He Got Better Things for You - Memphis Sanctified Singers
8.Since I Laid My Burden Down - The Elders McIntorsh / Edwards' Sanctified Singers
9.John the Baptist - Rev. Moses Mason
10.Dry Bones - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
11.John the Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson
12.Little Moses - The Carter Family
13.Shine on Me - Ernest Phipps
14.Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee
15.I'm in the Battlefield for My Lord - Rev. D.C. Rice & His Sanctified Congregation

Tracks on Disc 5:

1.Cuckoo, The - Clarence Ashley
2.East Virginia - Buell Kazee
3.Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
4.I Woke up One Morning in May - Didier H,bert
5.James Alley Blues - Richard Rabbit Brown
6.Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs
7.I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
8.Mountaineer's Courtship, The - Hattie Stoneman / Ernest V. Stoneman / Ernest & Hattie Stoneman
9.Spanish Merchant's Daughter, The - The Stonemans
10.Bob Lee Junior Blues - Memphis Jug Band
11.Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family
12.Vieux Soulard et Sa Femme, Le - Cleoma Breaux / Joseph Falcon / Cleoma Breaux & Joseph Falcon
13.Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
14.Expressman Blues - Sleepy John Estes

Tracks on Disc 6:

1.Poor Boy Blues - Ramblin' Thomas
2.Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers
3.Country Blues - Dock Boggs
4.99 Years Blues - Julius Daniels
5.Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
6.See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
7.C'Est Si Triste Sans Lui - Cleoma Breaux / Joseph Falcon / Ophy Breaux / Cleoma & Ophy Breaux
8.Way Down the Old Plank Road - Uncle Dave Macon
9.Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line - Uncle Dave Macon
10.Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
11.K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band
12.Train on the Island - J.P. Nestor
13.Lone Star Trail, The - Ken Maynard
14.Fishin' Blues - Henry Thomas