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Anthology of American Folk Music

Anthology of American Folk Music Volume One: Ballads (Folkways FP251)

Anthology of American Folk Music Volume One: Ballads
Various Artists

Folkways Records FP251 (2 LP, USA, 1952)

Anthology of American Folk Music Volume Two: Social Music
Various Artists

Folkways Records FP252 (2 LP, USA, 1952)

 Anthology of American Folk Music Volume Two: Social Music (Folkways FP252)
Anthology of American Folk Music Volume Three: Songs (Folkways FP253)

Anthology of American Folk Music Volume Three: Songs
Various Artists

Folkways Records FP253 (2 LP, USA, 1952)

Anthology of American Folk Music
Various Artists

Smithsonian Folkways SFW40090 (6 CD, USA, 1997)

 Anthology of American Folk Music Volume One: Social Music (Smithsonian Folkways SFW40090)
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Tracks

Volume One: The Ballads

FP 251 Side 1 / CD 1

  1. Dick Justice: Henry Lee (Roud 47; Child 68) (3.28)
  2. Nelstone’s Hawaiians: Fatal Flower Garden (Roud 73; Child 155) (2.58)
  3. Clarence Ashley: The House Carpenter (Roud 14; Child 243; G/D 2:332) (3.16)
  4. Coley Jones: Drunkard’s Special (Roud 114; Child 274; G/D 7:1460; Henry H21ab) (3.16)
  5. Bill and Belle Reed: Old Lady and the Devil (Roud 160; Child 278; G/D 2:320) (3.05)
  6. Buell Kazee: The Butcher’s Boy (Roud 409; Laws P24) (3.05)
  7. — : The Wagoner’s Lad (Roud 414) (3.05)

FP 251 Side 2 / CD 1

  1. Chubby Parker and His Old Time Banjo: King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O (Roud 16; G/D 8:1669) (3.09)
  2. Uncle Eck Dunford: Old Shoes and Leggins (Roud 362; G/D 4:815) (3.01)
  3. Richard Burnett and Leonard Rutherford: Willie Moore (Roud 4816) (3.16)
  4. Buster Carter & Preston Young: A Lazy Farmer Boy (Roud 438; Laws H13) (3.00)
  5. The Carolina Tar Heels: Peg and Awl (Roud 4619) (2.59)
  6. G.B. Grayson: Ommie Wise (Roud 447; Laws F4) (3.12)
  7. Kelly Harrell and the Virginia String Band: My Name Is John Johanna (Roud 257; Laws H1; Henry H0) (3.13)

FP 251 Side 3 / CD 2

  1. Edward L. Crain: Bandit Cole Younger (Roud 2243; Laws E3) (2.57)
  2. Kelly Harrell and the Virginia String Band: Charles Guiteau (Roud 444; Laws E11) (3.05)
  3. The Carter Family: John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man (Roud 3262; Laws I2) (2.57)
  4. The Williamson Brothers and Curry: Gonna Die With My Hammer in My Hand (Roud 790; Laws I1) (3.26)
  5. Frank Hutchison: Stackalee (Roud 4183; Laws I15) (3.01)
  6. Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers: White House Blues (Roud 787) (3.31)
  7. Mississippi John Hurt: Frankie (Roud 254; Laws I3) (3.28)

FP 251 Side 4 / CD 2

  1. William and Versey Smith: When That Great Ship Went Down (Roud 774; Laws D24) (2.58)
  2. The Carter Family: Engine 143 (Roud 255; Laes G3) (3.19)
  3. Furry Lewis: Kassie Jones (Roud 3247; Laws G1) (6.16)
  4. The Bently Boys: Down on Penny’s Farm (Roud 6687) (2.50)
  5. The Masked Marvel: Mississippi Boweavil Blues (Roud 3124; Laws I17) (3.09)
  6. The Carolina Tar Heels: Got the Farm Land Blues (Roud 17630) (3.17)

Volume Two: Social Music

FP 252 Side 1 / CD 3: Dances

  1. Uncle Bunt Stephens: Sail Away Lady (Roud 17635) (2.58)
  2. Jilson Setters: The Wild Wagoner (3.17)
  3. Prince Albert Hunt’s Texas Ramblers: Wake Up Jacob (Roud 6694) (2.55)
  4. Delma Lachney and Blind Uncle Gaspard: La Danseuse (2.56)
  5. Andrew and Jim Baxter: Georgia Stomp (2.47)
  6. Eck Robertson and Family: Brilliance Medley (3.01)
  7. Hoyt ‘Floyd’ Ming and his Pep-Steppers: Indian War Whoop (3.13)

FP 252 Side 2 / CD 3: Dances

  1. Henry Thomas: Old Country Stomp (2.55)
  2. Jim Jackson: Old Dog Blue (Roud 4313) (3.04)
  3. Columbus Fruge: Saut Crapaud (2.49)
  4. Joseph Falcon: Acadian One-Step (3.00)
  5. Breaux Freres: Home Sweet Home (3.00)
  6. The Cincinnati Jug Band: Newport Blues (2.58)
  7. Frank Cloutier and the Victoria Cafe Orchestra: Moonshiner’s Dance Part One (2.40)

FP 252 Side 3 / CD 4: Religious

  1. Rev. J. M. Gates: You Must Be Born Again (1.31)
  2. — : Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting (1.29)
  3. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers: Rocky Road (2.44)
  4. — : Present Joys (2.53)
  5. Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1: This Song of Love (2.58)
  6. Rev. Sister Mary Nelson: Judgement (2.25)
  7. Memphis Sanctified Singers: He Got Better Things for You (Roud 18809) (2.54)
  8. Elders McIntorsh and Edwards’ Sanctified Singers: Since I Laid My Burden Down (Roud 17355) (3.19)

FP 252 Side 4 / CD 4: Religious

  1. Rev. Moses Mason: John the Baptist (Roud 20148) (3.05)
  2. Bascom Lamar Lunsford: Dry Bones (Roud 17922) (3.00)
  3. Blind Willie Johnson: John the Revelator (Roud 6701) (3.21)
  4. The Carter Family: Little Moses (Roud 3546) (3.14)
  5. Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers: Shine on Me (Roud 10622) (3.03)
  6. Rev. F.W. McGhee: Fifty Miles of Elbow Room (Roud 17337) (2.43)
  7. Rev. D.C. Rice and His Sanctified Congregation: In the Battlefield for My Lord (Roud 21386) (3.20)

Volume Three: Songs

FP 253 Side 1 / CD 5

  1. Clarence Ashley: The Coo Coo Bird (Roud 413; G/D 6:1157; Henry H479) (2.56)
  2. Buell Kazee: East Virginia (Roud 3396) (3.01)
  3. Cannon’s Jug Stompers: Minglewood Blues (Roud 42481) (3.44)
  4. Didier Hébert: I Woke Up One Morning in May (3.04)
  5. Richard ‘Rabbit’ Brown: James Alley Blues (Roud 29278) (3.07)
  6. Dock Boggs: Sugar Baby (Roud 7695) (2.58)
  7. Bascom Lamar Lunsford: I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground (Roud 4957) (3.21)

FP 253 Side 2 / CD 5

  1. Ernest and Hattie Stoneman: Mountaineer’s Courtship (Roud 313) (2.44)
  2. The Stoneman Family: The Spanish Merchant’s Daughter (Roud 146) (3.18)
  3. Memphis Jug Band: Bob Lee Junior Blues (3.11)
  4. The Carter Family: Single Girl, Married Girl (Roud 436) (2.47)
  5. Cleoma Breaux and Joseph Falcon: La Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme (3.10)
  6. Blind Lemon Jefferson: Rabbit Foot Blues (2.57)
  7. Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell: Expressman Blues (3.01)

FP 253 Side 3 / CD 6

  1. Ramblin’ Thomas: Poor Boy Blues (Roud 17701) (2.24)
  2. Cannon’s Jug Stompers: Feather Bed (Roud 17527) (3.16)
  3. Dock Boggs: Country Blues (Roud 428) (2.59)
  4. Julius Daniels: 99 Year Blues (Roud 3263; Laws I4) (3.07)
  5. Blind Lemon Jefferson: Prison Cell Blues (Roud 14971) (2.47)
  6. — : See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Roud 7382) (2.55)
  7. Cleoma Breaux and Ophy Breaux and Joseph Falcon: C’Est Si Triste Sans Lui (3.01)

FP 253 Side 4 / CD 6

  1. Uncle Dave Macon: Way Down the Old Plank Road (Roud 18527) (3.01)
  2. — : Buddy Won’t You Roll Down the Line (Roud 17485) (3.15)
  3. Mississippi John Hurt: Spike Driver Blues (Roud 4299) (3.17)
  4. Memphis Jug Band: K.C. Moan (Roud 4958) (2.33)
  5. J.P. Nestor: Train on the Island (Roud 17376) (3.00)
  6. Ken Maynard: The Lone Star Trail (Roud 5765) (3.15)
  7. Henry Thomas: Fishing Blues (Roud 17692) (2.45)

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The Harry Smith Project

The Harry Smith Project (Shout! Factory 826663-10041)

The Harry Smith Project
Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited
Various Artists

Shout! Factory 826663-10041 (2 CD, 2 DVD, USA, October 2006)
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This is producer Hal Willner’s tribute to pioneering musicologist Harry Smith’s documentation and preservation of American folk music. It contains performances recorded in Los Angeles, New York and London in 1999 and 2001, and documentary material about Harry Smith’s work: collecting American folk music and compiling it for the famous Folkways Records label in 1952.

Recorded at Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London, 2 July 1999 [CD 1 tracks 4, 12; CD 2 tracks 2, 8],
St. Ann’s Art Center, Brooklyn, New York, 11&12 November 1999 [CD 1 tracks 3, 10-11, 13, 15-16; CD 2 tracks 3, 5, 7, 10-11, 14],
UCLA’s Royce Hall, Los Angeles, 25&26 April 2001 [CD 1 tracks 1-2, 5-9, 14; CD 2 tracks 1, 4, 6, 9, 12-13, 15-16]

Box set produced by Rani Singh and Hal Willner
(P) & © 2006 The Harry Smith Archives

Tracks

Disc 1: Concert CD

  1. David Johansen: Old Dog Blue (Roud 4313) (3.52)
  2. Steve Earle: Prison Cell Blues (Roud 14971) (3.50)
  3. Wilco: James Alley Blues (Roud 29278) (4.24)
  4. Beth Orton: Frankie (Roud 254; Laws I3) (4.44)
  5. Beck: Last Fair Deal Gone Down (3.34)
  6. Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Sugar Baby (Roud 7695) (4.30)
  7. Elvis Costello: The Butcher Boy (Roud 409; Laws P24) (4.13)
  8. David Thomas: Way Down the Old Plank Road (Roud 18527) (5.14)
  9. Richard Thompson with Eliza Carthy: The Coo Coo Bird (Roud 413; G/D 6:1157; Henry H479) (4.16)
    Recorded at UCLA’s Royce Hall, Los Angeles, 25 April 2001
  10. Ed Sanders: My Baby Done Left Me (Roud 3686) (2.42)
  11. Nick Cave: John the Revelator (Roud 6701) (3.07)
  12. Eric Mingus with Gary Lucas: Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting? (4.30)
  13. Roswell Rudd with Sonic Youth: Dry Bones (Roud 17922) (10.07)
  14. Garth & Maud Hudson: No Depression in Heaven (Roud 17321) (6.51)
  15. Geoff Muldaur: K.C. Moan (Roud 4958) (6.36)
  16. Gavin Friday with Maurice Seezer: When That Great Ship Went Down (Roud 774; Laws D24) (5.35)

Disc 2: Concert CD

  1. Robin Holcomb: A Lazy Farmer Boy (Roud 438; Laws H13) (3.01)
  2. Van Dyke Parks with Mondrian String Quartet: Sail Away Lady (Roud 17635) (3.00)
  3. Geoff Muldaur: Poor Boy Blues (Roud 17701) (4.22)
  4. Marianne Faithfull: Spike Driver Blues (Roud 4299) (2.46)
  5. Lou Reed: See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Roud 7382) (7.29)
  6. Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Elvis Costello: Ommie Wise Part 1 & 2 (What Lewis Did Last…) (Roud 447; Laws F4) (8.11)
  7. Gavin Friday: Fatal Flower Garden (Roud 73; Child 155) (6.31)
  8. Bob Neuwirth with Eliza Carthy: I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground (Roud 4957) (5.31)
    Recorded at Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London, 2 July 1999
  9. David Thomas: Fishing Blues (Roud 17692) (5.46)
  10. Mary Margaret O’Hara: He Got Better Things for You (Roud 18809) (2.10)
  11. Mocean Worker: Harry Goes A-Courtin’ (The Mowo! Live Hootenanny Throw-Down) (3.44)
  12. Robin Holcomb & Todd Rundgren: The House Carpenter (Roud 14; Child 243; G/D 2:332) (5.14)
  13. Don Byron, Percy Heath & Bill Frisell: This Song of Love (7.51)
  14. Nick Cave: Shine on Me (Roud 10622) (2.58)
  15. David Johansen: James Alley Blues (Roud 29278) (4.27)
  16. Petra Haden: Single Girl, Married Girl (Roud 436) (3.54)

Disc 3: Concert Film - The Harry Smith Project Live DVD

  1. Elvis Costello: The Butcher Boy (Roud 409; Laws P24)
  2. David Johansen: Old Dog Blue (Roud 4313)
  3. Nick Cave: John the Revelator (Roud 6701)
  4. Beck: Last Fair Deal Gone Down
  5. Ed Sanders: One Hot Summer Night with Harry Smith
  6. Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Sugar Baby (Roud 7695)
  7. Lou Reed: See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Roud 7382)
  8. Beth Orton: Frankie (Roud 254; Laws I3)
  9. Roswell Rudd with Sonic Youth: Dry Bones (Roud 17922)
  10. The Folkmen: Old Joe’s Place
  11. Robin Holcomb & Todd Rundgren: The House Carpenter (Roud 14; Child 243; G/D 2:332)
  12. Gavin Friday with Maurice Seezer: When That Great Ship Went Down (Roud 774; Laws D24)
  13. Philip Glass: Etude No. 10
  14. David Johansen: James Alley Blues (Roud 29278)
  15. Eric Mingus with Gary Lucas: Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting?
  16. Petra Haden: Single Girl, Married Girl (Roud 436)
  17. Richard Thompson with Eliza Carthy: The Coo Coo Bird (Roud 413; G/D 6:1157; Henry H479)
  18. Bob Neuwirth with Eliza Carthy: I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground (Roud 4957)
  19. Geoff Muldaur: Poor Boy Blues (Roud 17701)
  20. Don Byron, Percy Heath & Bill Frisell: This Song of Love
  21. Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Elvis Costello: Ommie Wise Part 1 & 2 (What Lewis Did Last…) (Roud 447; Laws F4)
  22. Steve Earle: Prison Cell Blues (Roud 14971)
  23. David Thomas: Fishing Blues (Roud 17692)

Disc 4: Documentary DVD

  1. The Old Weird America: Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music

Bonus Feature: Three films by Harry Smith

  1. Film #2
  2. Film #7
  3. Film #10