| Description |
6 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 booklets |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
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plastic metal |
| Description |
digital |
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optical |
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mono |
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1.4 m/s |
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audio file |
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CD audio |
| Note |
Smithsonian Folkways/Sony Music Special Products: SFW 40090 (A 28746--A 28751). |
| Performer |
Various performers. |
| Event |
Recorded 1927-1932. |
| Original Version |
Originally released: 1952. Folkways Records FP 251--FP 253. |
| Note |
Compact discs; in box (32 cm.). |
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Disc 6 an enhanced CD, which can also be played on CD-ROM drive to access video materials, artist interviews, and additional background information. |
| System Details |
System requirements: IBM compatible 486 or better; Windows 3.1, Windows 95 or newer. |
| Note |
"A booklet of essays, appreciations, and annotations pertaining to the Anthology of American folk music" (67 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 31 cm.) laid in container. |
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Includes facsimile of original (1952) booklet (28 unnumbered pages : illustrations). Missing from Talbott Library's copy; see link to .pdf. |
| Contents |
Essays: The old, weird America / Greil Marcus -- The brotherhood of the anthology / Jon Pankake -- West Coast record collector / Luis Kemnitzer -- The birth and growth of the Anthology of American folk music / as told by Moses Asch -- Notes on Harry Smith's Anthology / Neil V. Rosenberg -- Supplemental notes on the selections / Jeff Place. |
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Disc 1-A. Ballads (Selections 1-14). Henry Lee / Dick Justice (3:26) -- Fatal flower garden / Nelstone's Hawaiians (2:55) -- House carpenter / Clarence Ashley (3:14) -- Drunkard's special / Coley Jones (3:16) -- Old lady and the devil / Bill Reed, Belle Reed (3:02) -- The butcher's boy / Buell Kazee (3:02) -- The wagoner's lad / Buell Kazee (3:02) -- King kong kitchie kitchie ki-me-o / Chubby Parker (3:08) -- Old shoes and leggins / Uncle Eck Dunford (2:59) -- Willie Moore / Richard Burnett, Leonard Rutherford (3:13) -- Lazy farmer boy / Buster Carter, Preston Young (2:57) -- Peg and awl / Carolina Tar Heels (2:57) -- Ommie Wise / Gilliam Banmon Grayson (3:09) -- My name is John Johanna / Kelly Harrell and the Virginia String Band (3:12). |
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Disc 1-B. Ballads (Selectios 15-27). Bandit Cole Younger / Edward L. Crain (2:54) -- Charles Giteau / Kelly Harrell and the Virginia String Band (3:03) -- John Hardy was a desperate little man / Carter Family (2:55) -- Gonna die with my hammer in my hand / Williamson Brothers and Curry (3:24) -- Stackalee / Frank Hutchison (2:58) -- White House blues / Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers (3:31) -- Frankie / Mississippii John Hurt (3:25) -- When that great ship went down / William Smith, Versey Smith (2:55) -- Engine 143 / Carter Family (3:16) -- Kassie Jones / Furry Lewis (6:13) -- Down on Penny's farm / Bently Boys (2:47) -- Mississippi boweavil (boll weevil) blues / Charley Patton (3:07) -- Got the farm land blues / Carolina Tar Heels (3:16). |
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Disc 2-A. Social music (Selections 28-41). Sail away lady / "Uncle Bunt" Stephens (2:56) -- The wild wagoner / Jilson Setters (3:14) -- Wake up Jacob / Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers (2:52) -- La danseuse / Delma Lachney, Blind Uncle Gaspard (2:54) -- Georgia stomp / Andrew Baxter, Jim Baxter (2:44) -- Brilliancy medley / Eck Robertson and Family (2:59) -- Indian war whoop / Hoyt "Floyd" Ming and his Pep-Steppers (3:10) -- Old country stomp / Henry Thomas (2:52) -- Old dog blue / Jim Jackson (3:01) -- Saut crapaud / Columbus Fruge (2:47) -- Acadian one-step / Joseph Falcon (2:57) -- Home sweet home / Breaux Freres (3:00) -- Newport blues / Cincinnati Jug Band (2:55) -- Moonshiner's dance, part one / Frank Cloutier and the Victoria Cafe Orchestra (2:39). |
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Disc 2-B. Social music (Selections 42-56). Must be born again / Rev. J.M. Gates (1:28) -- Oh death where is thy sting / Rev. J.M. Gates (1:26) -- Rocky road / Alabama Sacred Harp Singers (2:42) -- Present joys / Alabama Sacred Harp Singers (2:50) -- This song of love / Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1 (2:56) -- Judgement [sic] / Rev. Sister Mary Nelson (2:23) -- He got better things for you / Memphis Sanctified Singers (2:52) -- Since I laid my burden down / Elders McIntorsh and Edwards' Sanctified Singers (3:16) -- John the Baptist / Rev. Moses Mason (3:02) -- Dry bones / Bascom Lamar Lunsford (2:58) -- John the revelator / Blind Willie Johnson (3:18) -- Little Moses / Carter Family (3:11) -- Shine on me / Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers (3:01) -- Fifty miles of elbow room / Rev. F.M. McGee (2:40) -- I'm in the battlefield for my Lord / Rev. D.C. Rice and His Sanctified Congregation (3:19). |
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Disc 3-A. Songs (Selections 57-70). The coo coo bird / Clarence "Tom" Ashley (2:54) -- East Virginia / Buell Kazee (2:58) -- Minglewood blues / Cannon's Jug Stompers with Noah Lewis (3:41) -- I woke up one morning in May / Didier Hébert (3:01) -- James Alley blues / Richard "Rabbit" Brown (3:05) -- Sugar baby / Dock Boggs (2:56) -- I wish I was a mole in the ground / Bascom Lamar Lunsford (3:19) -- The mountaineer's courtship / Hattie Stoneman, Ernest V. Stoneman (2:42) -- The Spanish merchant's daughter / Stoneman Family (3:15) -- Bob Lee Junior blues / Memphis Jug Band (3:08) -- Single girl, married girl / Carter Family (2:44) -- Le vieux soulard et sa femme / Cleoma Breaux, Joseph Falcon (3:08) -- Rabbit foot blues / Blind Lemon Jefferson (2:55) -- Expressman blues / Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachell (3:01). |
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Disc 3-B. Songs (Selections 71-84). Poor boy blues / Ramblin' Thomas (2:22) -- Feather bed / Cannon's Jug Stompers (3:13) -- Country blues / Dock Boggs (2:56) -- 99 year blues / Julius Daniels (3:04) -- Prison cell blues / Blind Lemon Jefferson (2:44) -- See that my grave is kept clean / Blind Lemon Jefferson (2:52) -- C'est si triste sans lui / Cleoma Breaux, Joseph Falcon (2:59) -- Way down the old plank road / Uncle Dave Macon (2:58) -- Buddy won't you roll down the line / Uncle Dave Macon (3:15) -- Spike driver blues / Mississippi John Hurt (3:14) -- K.C. moan / Memphis Jug Band (2:31) -- Train on the island / J.P. Nestor (2:57) -- The Lone Star Trail / Ken Maynard (3:12) -- Fishing blues / Henry Thomas (2:44). |
| Summary |
Enhanced CD focuses on Smith as an artist and twentieth century luminary and contains rare photos, historic video footage, artists interviews, and additional annotations. |
| Awards |
Grammy awards: Chairman's Merit Award, 1991 (for Harry Smith); Best Historical Album, 1998; Best Album Notes, 1998. |
| Subject |
Folk music -- United States.
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Ballads, English -- United States.
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Blues (Music) -- United States -- To 1931.
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Blues (Music) -- United States -- 1931-1940.
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Folk songs, English -- United States.
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Folk dance music -- United States.
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Gospel music -- United States.
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Folk songs, Cajun French -- United States.
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Ballads, English. |
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Blues (Music) |
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Folk dance music. |
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Folk music. |
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Folk songs, Cajun French. |
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Folk songs, English. |
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Gospel music. |
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United States. |
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Iwi taketake. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1940 |
| Genre/Form |
Blues (Music)
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Blues (Music)
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Ballads.
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Folk songs.
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Folk music.
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Folk dance music.
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Gospel music.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Harry Everett, 1923-1991, compiler.
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Marcus, Greil, writer of added commentary.
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Pankake, Jon, writer of added commentary.
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Kemnitzer, Luis S. (Luis Stowell), 1928-2006, writer of added commentary.
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Asch, Moses, writer of added commentary.
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Rosenberg, Neil V., writer of added commentary.
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Place, Jeffrey, writer of added commentary.
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Ashley, Clarence, 1895-1967.
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Baxter, Andrew.
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Baxter, Jim (Musician)
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Boggs, Dock, 1898-1971.
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Breaux, Cleoma, 1905-1941.
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Brown, Richard, -1937.
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Burnett, Richard D., 1883-1977.
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Carter, Buster.
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Cloutier, Frank.
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Crain, Edward L.
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Curry (Banjoist)
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Daniels, Julius.
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Dunford, Uncle Eck.
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Estes, Sleepy John, 1899-1977.
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Falcon, Joe, 1900-1965.
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Fruge, Columbus, 1907-1980.
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Gaspard, Blind Uncle, 1880-1937.
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Gates, J. M., Rev.
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Grayson, G. B. (Gilliam Banmon), 1887-1930.
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Harrell, Kelly, 1889-1942.
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Hebert, Didier.
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Hunt, Prince Albert, 1896-1931.
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Hurt, Mississippi John, 1892-1966.
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Hutchison, Frank, 1897-1945.
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Jackson, Jim, -1937.
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Jefferson, Blind Lemon, 1897-1929.
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Johnson, Blind Willie.
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Jones, Coley.
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Justice, Dick, 1906-1962.
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Kazee, Buell, 1900-1976.
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Lachney, Delma, 1896-1949.
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Lewis, Furry, 1893-1981.
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Lewis, Noah, 1895-1961.
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Lunsford, Bascom Lamar, 1882-1973.
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Macon, Uncle Dave, 1870-1952.
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Maynard, Ken, 1895-1973.
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Mason, Moses.
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McGee, F. W. (Ford Washington), 1890-1971.
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McIntorsh, Lonnie.
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Ming, Hoyt, 1902-1985.
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Nelson, Mary, Rev. Sister.
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Nestor, J. P.
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Parker, Chubby.
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Patton, Charley, 1891-1934.
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Phipps, Ernest.
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Poole, Charlie, 1892-1931.
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Reed, Belle.
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Reed, Bill.
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Rice, D. C., Rev.
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Robertson, Eck, 1887-1975.
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Rutherford, Leonard.
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Setters, Jilson.
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Smith, Versey.
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Smith, William.
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Stephens, Uncle Bunt.
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Stoneman, Ernest V.
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Stoneman, Hattie.
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Thomas, Henry, 1874-
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Thomas, Willard.
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Rachell, Yank.
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Young, Preston, 1907-
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Alabama Sacred Harp Singers.
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Bently Boys.
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Breaux Freres.
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Brother Williams Memphis Sanctified Singers.
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Cannon's Jug Stompers.
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Carolina Tar Heels.
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Carter Family (Musical group)
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Cincinnati Jug Band.
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Edward's Sanctified Singers.
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Holiness Singers.
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Memphis Jug Band.
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Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1.
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Nelstone's Hawaiians (Musical group)
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North Carolina Ramblers.
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Pep Steppers (Musical group)
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Stoneman Family (Musical group)
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Texas Ramblers.
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Victoria Cafe Orchestra.
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Virginia String Band.
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Williamson Brothers.
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Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings.
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| Added Title |
American folk music |
| ISBN |
9786304585214 |
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6304585217 |
| Standard No. |
930740090248 |
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093074009024 |
| Music No. |
SFW 40090 Smithsonian Folkways/Sony Music Special Products |
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A 28746--A 28751 Smithsonian Folkways/Sony Music Special Products |
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FP 251--FP 253 Folkways Records |
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