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Harry Smith – Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume One: Ballads Harry Smith - Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume One: Ballads album cover More images
Label: Folkways Records – FP 251 Series: Anthology Of American Folk Music – Volume One: Ballads Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1952 Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country Style: Country, Cajun, Field Recording, Delta Blues, Folk Ballads No. 1 A1 Dick Justice– Henry Lee 3:28 A2 Nelstone's Hawaiians– Fatal Flower Garden Written-By – Nelson*, Touchstone* 2:58 A3 Clarence Ashley– The House Carpenter 3:16 A4 Coley Jones– Drunkard's Special 3:16 A5 Bill And Belle Reed– Old Lady And The Devil 3:05 A6 Buell Kazee– The Butcher's Boy (The Railroad Boy) 3:05 A7 Buell Kazee– The Wagoner's Lad (Loving Nancy) 3:05 Ballads No. 2 B1 Chubby Parker And His Old Time Banjo*– King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O 3:09 B2 Uncle Eck Dunford– Old Shoes And Leggings Written-By – E. Dunford* 3:01 B3 Richard Burnett And Leonard Rutherford– Willie Moore 3:16 B4 Buster Carter & Preston Young– A Lazy Farmer Boy 3:00 B5 The Carolina Tar Heels– Peg And Awl 2:59 B6 G.B. Grayson– Ommie Wise Written-By – G.B. Grayson 3:12 B7 Kelly Harrell And The Virginia String Band– My Name Is John Johanna 3:13 Ballads No. 3 C1 Edward L. Crain– Bandit Cole Younger Written-By – Crain* 2:57 C2 Kelly Harrell And The Virginia String Band– Charles Giteau 3:05 C3 The Carter Family– John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man Written-By – A. P. Carter 2:57 C4 The Williamson Brothers And Curry (2)– Gonna Die With My Hammer In My Hand 3:26 C5 Frank Hutchison– Stackalee Written-By – Hutchison* 3:01 C6 Charlie Poole And The North Carolina Ramblers– White House Blues 3:31 C7 Mississippi John Hurt– Frankie 3:28 Ballads No. 4 D1 William And Versey Smith– When That Great Ship Went Down 2:58 D2 The Carter Family– Engine 143 Written-By – A. P. Carter 3:19 D3 Furry Lewis– Kassie Jones Written-By – F. Lewis* 6:16 D4 The Bently Boys– Down On Penny's Farm 2:50 D5 The Masked Marvel– Mississippi Boweavil Blues 3:09 D6 The Carolina Tar Heels– Got The Farm Land Blues 3:17 Compiled By, Edited By – Harry Smith

Harry Smith – Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume Two: Social Music Harry Smith - Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume Two: Social Music album cover Label: Folkways Records – FA 2952 Series: Anthology Of American Folk Music – Volume Two Social Music Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1952 Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country Style: Country, Cajun, Field Recording, Delta Blues, Folk A1 Uncle Bunt Stephens– Sail Away Lady 2:58 A2 Jilson Setters– The Wild Wagoner 3:17 A3 Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers– Wake Up Jacob 2:55 A4 Delma Lachney And Blind Uncle Gaspard– La Danseuse 2:56 A5 Andrew And Jim Baxter*– Georgia Stomp 2:47 A6 Eck Robertson And Family– Brilliance Medley 3:01 A7 Hoyt "Floyd" Ming And His Pep-Steppers– Indian War Whoop 3:13 B1 Henry Thomas– Old Country Stomp 2:55 B2 Jim Jackson (2)– Old Dog Blue 3:04 B3 Columbus Fruge– Saut Crapaud 2:49 B4 Joseph Falcon– Acadian One-Step 3:00 B5 Breaux Freres*– Home Sweet Home 3:00 B6 The Cincinnati Jug Band*– Newport Blues 2:58 B7 Frank Cloutier And The Victoria Cafe Orchestra– Moonshiner's Dance Part One 2:40 C1 Rev. J. M. Gates– You Must Be Born Again 1:31 C2 Rev. J. M. Gates– Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting 1:29 C3 Alabama Sacred Harp Singers– Rocky Road 2:44 C4 Alabama Sacred Harp Singers– Present Joys 2:53 C5 Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1– This Song Of Love 2:58 C6 Rev. Sister Mary Nelson– Judgement 2:25 C7 Memphis Sanctified Singers– He Got Better Things For You 2:54 C8 Elders McIntorsh And Edwards' Sanctified Singers– Since I Laid My Burden Down 3:19 D1 Rev. Moses Mason*– John The Baptist 3:05 D2 Bascom Lamar Lunsford– Dry Bones 3:00 D3 Blind Willie Johnson– John The Revelator 3:21 D4 The Carter Family– Little Moses 3:14 D5 Ernest Phipps And His Holiness Singers– Shine On Me 3:03 D6 Rev. F.W. McGhee*– Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room 2:43 D7 Rev. D.C. Rice And His Sanctified Congregation– In The Battlefield For My Lord 3:20 Compiled By, Edited By – Harry Smith


Anthology of American Folk Music is a three-volume compilation album released in August 1952 by Folkways Records.[1] The album was compiled by experimental filmmaker Harry Smith from his own personal collection of 78 rpm records. It consists of eighty-four recordings of American folk, blues and country music made and issued from 1926 to 1933 by a variety of performers, divided into three categories: "Ballads", "Social music", and "Songs."
Upon its release the Anthology sold relatively poorly and had no notable early coverage besides a minor mention in Sing Out! magazine in 1958. However, it would eventually become regarded as a landmark and influential release, particularly for the 1950s and 1960s American folk music revival. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 276 on their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,[3] and, in 2005, the album was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress.[4]
Background Harry Smith was a West Coast filmmaker, magickian and bohemian eccentric.[5] As a teenager he started collecting old blues, jazz, country, Cajun, and gospel records and accumulated a large collection of 78s,[6] those being the only medium at the time.
In 1947, he met with Moses Asch, with an interest in selling or licensing the collection to Asch's label, Folkways Records.[7] Smith wrote that he selected recordings from between "1927, when electronic recording made possible accurate music reproduction, and 1932, when the Great Depression halted folk music sales."[8] When the Anthology was released, neither Folkways nor Smith possessed the licensing rights to these recordings, many of which had initially been issued by record companies that were still in existence, including Columbia and Paramount. The anthology thus technically qualifies as a high profile bootleg. Folkways would later obtain some licensing rights, although the Anthology would not be completely licensed until the 1997 Smithsonian reissue.[9] Asch had a "reputation for releasing copyrighted songs without going through the proper legal channels."[10]
Sequencing Smith divided the collection into three, two record volumes: Ballads, Social Music, and Songs. The first volume consists of ballads including many American versions of Child Ballads taken from the English folk tradition. Each song tells a story about a specific event or time, and Smith may have made some effort to organize them to suggest a historical narrative, a theory suggested by the fact that many of the first songs in this volume are old English folk ballads while the closing songs deal with the hardships of being a farmer in the 1920s.
The first record in the Social Music volume mostly consists of music that was likely performed at social gatherings and dances with many of the songs being instrumentals. The second record in the volume consists of religious and spiritual songs, including some Gospel songs.
The volume of Songs consists of regular songs, dealing with everyday life. Critic Greil Marcus describes them as being about "marriage, labor, dissipation, prison, and death."
Smith's booklet in the original release refers to three additionally planned volumes made up of music up until 1950.[8] Although none were released during his lifetime, a fourth volume was released posthumously in 2000.[12] Entitled Labor Songs, this volume centers around work songs and union songs. The album contains later material than the original three volumes, anthologizing material recorded as late as 1940.
Design Track 57 description from Harry Smith's Liner Notes Booklet Example from Smith's Liner Notes: #57 – The Coo Coo Bird Smith himself designed and edited the anthology and wrote the liner notes, which are almost as well known as the music, using an unusual fragmented, collage method that presaged some postmodern artwork. He also penned short synopses of the songs which read like newspaper headlines. For the song "King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O" by Chubby Parker, a song about a mouse marrying a frog, Smith notes: "Zoologic Miscegeny Achieved in Mouse Frog Nuptials, Relatives Approve."[13]
Each of the three sets carries the same cover art, a Theodore de Bry etching of an instrument Smith referred to as the Celestial Monochord,[14] taken from a mystical treatise by scientist/alchemist Robert Fludd. The etching is printed over a different color background for each volume of the set: blue, red and green. Smith incorporated both the music and the art into his own unusual cosmology. He considered each of these colors as corresponding to an alchemical classical element: water, fire, and air, respectively. The fourth Labour volume (released later by Revenant) is colored yellow to represent the element earth



 Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume Three: Songs Harry Smith - Anthology Of American Folk Music Volume Three: Songs album cover More images
Label: Folkways Records – FP 253 Series: Anthology Of American Folk Music – Volume Three: Songs Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1952 Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country Style: Country, Cajun, Folk A57 Clarence Ashley– The Coo Coo Bird Solo Vocal, 5-String Banjo, Written-By – Clarence Ashley 2:56 A58 Buell Kazee– East Virginia Solo Vocal, 5-String Banjo, Written-By – Buell Kazee 3:01 A59 Cannon's Jug Stompers– Minglewood Blues Harmonica – Noah Lewis Jug, Banjo – Gus Cannon Solo Vocal, Guitar – Ashley Thompson Written-By – Noah Lewis 3:44 A60 Didier Herbert– Morning In May Written-By, Solo Vocal, Guitar – Didier Herbert 3:04 A61 Richard "Rabbit" Brown– James Alley Blues Written-By, Solo Vocal, Guitar – R. Brown* 3:07 A62 Dock Boggs– Sugar Baby Written-By, Solo Vocal, Guitar – Dock Boggs 2:58 A63 Bascom Lamar Lunsford– I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground Written-By, Solo Vocal, 5-String Banjo – Bascom Lamar Lunsford 3:21 B64 Mr. & Mrs. Ernest V. Stoneman*– Mountaineer's Courtship Vocals, Harmonica, Guitar – Ernest And Hattie Stoneman Written-By – Mr. & Mrs. Ernest V. Stoneman* 2:44 B65 Stoneman Family*– The Spanish Merchant's Daughter Vocals, Harmonica, Violin, Guitar – Hattie And Ernest Stoneman* Written-By – E. Stoneman* 3:18 B66 Memphis Jug Band– Bob Lee Junior Blues Solo Vocal, Kazoo, Mandolin Banjo, Jug, Guitar – Memphis Jug Band Written-By – Clayton Shade* 3:11 B67 The Carter Family– Single Girl, Married Girl Autoharp, Guitar – The Carter Family Solo Vocal – Sara Carter (2) Written-By – A. P. Carter 2:47 B68 Cleoma Breaux & Joseph Falcon– La Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme (The Old Drunkard And His Wife) Written-By, Solo Vocal, Guitar – Cleoma Breaux Written-By, Vocals [Talking], Accordion – Joseph Falcon 3:10 B69 Blind Lemon Jefferson– Rabbit Foot Blues Solo Vocal, Guitar – Blind Lemon Jefferson Written-By – L. Jefferson* 2:57 B70 John Estes*– Expressman Blues Solo Vocal, Piano, Mandolin, Guitar – Sleepy John Estes Written-By – James Rachel* 3:01 C71 Ramblin' Thomas– Poor Boy Blues Solo Vocal, Guitar – Ramblin' Thomas Written-By – Willard Thomas* 2:24 C72 Cannon's Jug Stompers– Feather Bed Solo Vocal, Harmonica, Banjo, Jug, Guitar – Cannon's Jug Stompers Written-By – Gus Cannon 3:16 C73 Dock Boggs– Country Blues Written-By, Solo Vocal, Banjo – "Dock" Boggs* 2:59 C74 Julius Daniels– 99 Year Blues Solo Vocal, Guitar – Julius Daniels Written-By – J. Daniels* 3:07 C75 Blind Lemon Jefferson– Prison Cell Blues Written-By, Solo Vocal, Guitar – Blind Lemon Jefferson 2:47 C76 Blind Lemon Jefferson– See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Written-By, Solo Vocal, Guitar – Blind Lemon Jefferson 2:55 C77 Cleoma Breaux With Joe Falcon* And Ophy Breaux– C'Est Si Triste Sans Lui (It Is So Blue Without Him) Written-By – Ophy Breaux Written-By, Accordion – Joe Falcon* Written-By, Solo Vocal, Guitar – Cleoma Breaux 3:01 D78 Uncle Dave Macon– Way Down The Old Plank Road Guitar – Sam McGee Written-By, Solo Vocal, Banjo – Uncle Dave Macon 3:01 D79 Uncle Dave Macon– Buddy Won't You Roll Down The Line Guitar Banjo – Sam McGee Solo Vocal, Banjo – Uncle Dave Macon Written-By – Macon* 3:15 D80 Mississippi John Hurt– Spike Driver Blues Written-By, Solo Vocal, Guitar – Mississippi John Hurt 3:17 D81 Memphis Jug Band– K.C. Moan Vocals, Harmonica, Kazoo, Banjo, Jug, Guitar – Memphis Jug Band Written-By – Tewee Blackman 2:33 D82 J.P. Nestor– Train On The Island Violin – Unknown Artist Written-By, Solo Vocal, Banjo – J.P. Nestor 3:00 D83 Ken Maynard– The Lone Star Trail Written-By, Solo Vocal, Guitar – Ken Maynard 3:15 D84 Henry Thomas– Fishing Blues Solo Vocal, Guitar – Henry Thomas Written-By – Thomas* 5:17 Compiled By, Edited By, Liner Notes – Harry Smith Liner Notes – Moses Asch