Track Listing
DISC 1: VOLUME ONE-BALLADS:
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 Reed/Ola Belle Reed
6. Butcher's Boy, The (The Railroad Boy) - Buell Kazee
7. Wagoner's Lad, The (Loving Nancy) - Buell Kazee
8. King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O - Chubby Parker
9. Old Shoes and Leggins - Uncle Eck Dunford
10. Willie Moore - Burnett & Rutherford
11. Lazy Farmer Boy, A - Buster Carter/Preston Young
12. Peg and Awl - The Carolina Tar Heels
13. Ommie Wise - G.B. Grayson
14. My Name Is John Johanna - Kelly Harrell
DISC 2: VOLUME ONE-BALLADS, CONT.:
1. Bandit Cole Younger - Edward L. Crain
2. Charles Giteau - Kelly Harrell
3. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man - The Carter Family
4. Gonna Die With My Hammer in My Hand - The Willliamson Brothers/Curry
5. Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
6. White House Blues - Charlie Poole/The North Carolina Ramblers
7. Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
8. When That Great Ship Went Down - William Smith/Versey 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 - The Masked Marvel
13. Got the Farm Land Blues - The Carolina Tar Heels
DISC 3: VOLUME TWO-SOCIAL MUSIC:
1. Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens
2. Wild Wagoner, The - Jilson Setters
3. Wake up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
4. La Danseuse - Delma Lachney/Blind Uncle Gaspard
5. Georgia Stomp - Andrew Baxter/Jim Baxter
6. Brilliancy Medley - Eck Robertson
7. Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming & His Pep Steppers
8. Old Country Stomp - Henry Thomas
9. Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson
10. Saut Crapaud - Columbus Fruge
11. Acadian One-Step - Joseph Falcon
12. Home Sweet Home - Breaux Freres
13. Newport Blues - Cincinnati Jug Band
14. Moonshiner's Dance Part One - Frank Cloutier & The Victoria Cafe Orchestra
DISC 4: VOLUME TWO-SOCIAL MUSIC, CONT.:
1. You Must Be Born Again - Rev. J.M. Gates
2. Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting - Rev. J.M. Gates
3. Rocky Road - The Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
4. Present Joys - The Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
5. This Song of Love - The Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1
6. Judgement - Sister Mary Nelson
7. He Got Better Things For You - The 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 & Holiness Singers
14. Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee
15. In the Battlefield For My Lord - Rev. D C Rice & Congregation
DISC 5: VOLUME THREE-SONGS:
1. Coo Coo Bird, The - Clarence Ashley
2. East Virginia - Buell Kazee
3. Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
4. I Woke up One Morning in May - Didier Hebert
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 - Ernest & Hattie Stoneman
9. Spanish Merchant's Daughter, The - The Stoneman Family
10. Bob Lee Junior Blues - Memphis Jug Band
11. Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family
12. Le Vieux Soulard et Sa Femme - Cleoma Breaux & Joseph Falcon
13. Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
14. Expressman Blues - Sleepy John Estes/Yank Rachell
DISC 6: VOLUME THREE-SONGS, CONT.:
1. Poor Boy Blues - Ramblin' Thomas
2. Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers
3. Country Blues - Dock Boggs
4. 99 Year Blues
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 & Ophy Breaux/Joseph Falcon
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. Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas
| Details | | Producer: | Harry Smith (Compilation) | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This newly remastered six-CD box set is a reissue of the six-LP set compiled by folk archivist Harry Smith in 1952. Some of the many artists influenced by this collection of field recordings from the '20s and '30s are Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jerry Garcia, Joan Baez and Peter, Paul & Mary. The ANTHOLOGY contains a 100-page booklet that incorporates Smith's original annotations, archival photos, graphics and testimonials by well-known musical figures including Elvis Costello, Dave Van Ronk and Eric von Schmidt. The final disc of this 6 CD set contains a multimedia portion which provides a hypertext essay of images, text, and additional information.
Recorded between 1926 and 1932. Includes liner notes by Greil Marcus, Anthony Seeger, Amy Horowitz, Jon Pankake, Luis Kemnitzer, Moses Asch, Harry Smith, Neil V. Rosenberg and Jeff Place.
Digitally remastered by Dave Glasser and Charlie Pilzer.
ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC won the 1998 Grammy Awards for Best Album Notes and Best Historical Album.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
This six-CD box set is nothing less than a blueprint for virtually every form of 20th Century pop music. A staggering compendium of the varied but closely connected styles of early American music, the ANTHOLOGY collects folk, blues, hillbilly, and church music to present a textured and unbelievably rich tapestry. This collection's worth as both a historical document and a source of infinite delight cannot be overstated. Folk archivist Harry Smith envisioned the project and compiled these 78s in 1952. His choice of material reveals not only his impeccable taste but also the spirit of true democratic humanity, manifested and reflected in song.
Recorded largely in the rural South of the early '20s and '30s, the ANTHOLOGY covers forlorn ballads of lost love, Creole chants, Christian hymns, deep swamp blues, novelty songs, political music, and innumerable tunes that dazzle with their melodic and rhythmic charms and risks. Included here are many legends of roots music, including The Carter Family, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charlie Patton, Dock Boggs, and Mississippi John Hurt, as well as dozens of others less heard. Make no mistake. This definitive examination of the roots of America's musical family tree is of monumental importance. It belongs in every music lover's library.
Editorial Reviews
Included in Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 90's.
Rolling Stone (05/13/1999)
...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
Entertainment Weekly (09/19/1997)
...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...
Spin (10/01/1997)
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...
Rolling Stone (09/18/1997)
Ranked #1 on Spin's list of Top 10 Reissues.
Spin (01/01/1998)
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