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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093074009024
Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways
Number Of Discs: 6
Publisher: Smithsonian Folkways
Release Date: August 19, 1997
Studio: Smithsonian Folkways
Sales Rank: 3562
MPN: 40090



Disc 1:
  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
Disc 2:
  1. Bandit Cole Younger - Crain, Edward L.
  2. Charles Giteaux
  3. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man - Carter, A.P.
  4. Gonna Die With My Hammer in My Hand - Traditional
  5. Stackalee - Hutchison, Frank
  6. White House Blues - Traditional
  7. Frankie - Hurt, Mississippi J
  8. When That Great Ship Went Down - Traditional
  9. Engine 143 - Carter, A.P.
  10. Kassie Jones - Lewis, Furry
  11. Down on Penny's Farm
  12. Mississippi Boweavil Blues
  13. Got the Farm Land Blues - Traditional
Disc 3:
  1. Sail Away Ladies
  2. The Wild Wagoner
  3. Wake up Jacob - Traditional
  4. La Danseuse
  5. Georgia Stomp - Baxter, Andrew
  6. Brilliancy Medley - Robertson, A.C.
  7. Indian War Whoop - Ming, Hoyt "Floyd"
  8. Old Country Stomp - Thomas, Henry [1]
  9. Old Dog Blue - Jackson, Jim [1]
  10. Saut' Crapaud
  11. Arcadian One-Step
  12. Home Sweet Home - Clifford
  13. Newport Blues - Coleman, Bob
  14. Moonshiner's Dance (Pt. 1) - Cloutier, Frank
Disc 4:
  1. You Must Be Born Again - Gates, J.M.
  2. Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting
  3. Rocky Road - Traditional
  4. Present Joys - Traditional
  5. This Song of Love
  6. Judgement
  7. He Got Better Things for You - Roberts, T.
  8. Since I Laid My Burden Down
  9. John the Baptist - Parth, Johnny
  10. Dry Bones - Traditional
  11. John the Revelator - Traditional
  12. Little Moses - Carter, A.P.
  13. Shine on Me - Phipps, Ernest
  14. Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
  15. I'm in the Battlefield for My Lord - Rice, Rev. D.C.
Disc 5:
  1. The Cuckoo - Traditional
  2. East Virginia - Traditional
  3. Minglewood Blues - Lewis, Noah
  4. I Woke up One Morning in May
  5. James Alley Blues - Brown, Richard [1]
  6. Sugar Baby - Traditional
  7. I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground - Traditional
  8. The Mountaineer's Courtship
  9. The Spanish Merchant's Daughter - Stoneman, Ernest
  10. Bob Lee Junior Blues - Clayton, Jennie Mae
  11. Single Girl, Married Girl - Carter, A.P.
  12. Le Vieux Soulard et Sa Femme
  13. Rabbit Foot Blues - Jefferson, Blind Le
  14. Expressman Blues - Rachell, James
Disc 6:
  1. Poor Boy Blues - Thomas, Willard
  2. Feather Bed - Cannon, Gus
  3. Country Blues - Boggs, Dock
  4. 99 Years Blues - Daniels, Julius
  5. Prison Cell Blues - Jefferson, Blind Le
  6. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Jefferson, Blind Le
  7. C'Est Si Triste Sans Lui
  8. Way Down the Old Plank Road - Traditional
  9. Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line - Macon, Uncle Dave
  10. Spike Driver Blues - Hurt, Mississippi J
  11. K.C. Moan - Blackman, Tewee
  12. Train on the Island - Nestor, J.P.
  13. The Lone Star Trail - Traditional
  14. Fishin' Blues - Thomas, Henry [1]
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Editorial Review:

Album Description:
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

Amazon.com:
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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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Ghosts aplenty inside these tunes
There are some truly haunting performances here, and some funny ones, and some of everything, really. This stuff is so far deeper and weirder and spookier than any folk I've ever heard. It's the motherlode; Harry Smith wandered around and got these recordings before radio started, and thus we get true folk music, passed down the generations and from that area, or from the motherland of the musicians, with the spirit of the New World.
The vibes are palpable, varied, and intense. Lots of "mistakes", ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - THE Chronicles
Great stuff. Yet some of the singing is almost too real, too raw. Bob Dylan cites this album as a main inspiration, and you can hear his singing and songwriting style in a lot of the songs. Not for everybody, and may be even too much for casual folk music fans. Has to be listened to in the context of a historical document.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - totally essential listening
This CD compilation set is more than just an album of music--it's a historical document. I first heard of the AAFM in a Bob Dylan biography--after buying this and listening to it, I can understand how Bob was inspired to ditch his Little Richard aspirations and travel the rugged road of folk. Through the three sections--Ballads, Social Music (mostly instrumentals), and Songs (kind of like ballads, but less story-oriented), this collection not only contains some great, timeless music and performances, it's ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The grandfather of the reissue records
This collection led to the "re-discovery" of many artists who had dissapeared after when the depression crippled the recording industry. Mississippi John Hurt is probably the most famous as of now, but others, like Clarence Ashley were major finds at the time - and when Folkways sent a field crew to do a new record by Ashley he requested some assist from a young friend named Doc Watson. Watson was unknown outside his home town at the time but went on to become a major star in a field which has very few ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Necessary.
I dont think there is a need to go into to much detail about this *6 CD* set. If you can fork over the cash, just buy it. If you have any interest in roots music, just buy it. If you thought ol' Bobby Dylan and the Band made some great weird music in the basement of big pink in '67 .. for the love of god, BUY THIS! strange, unadorned, raw music , just buy it.


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