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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)

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 5731) (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 HouseCarpenter (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 4299) (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 5731)
  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 HouseCarpenter (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