Artist: Various Artists

Title: Anthology American Folk Music / Various

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 1997

Label: Smithsonian Folkways

UPC: 093074009024

Genre: Folk, Box Sets

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Henry Lee - Dick Justice
2. Fatal Flower Garden - Nelston's Hawaiians
3. House Carpenter - Clarence Ashley
4. Drunkard's Special - Coley Jones
5. Old Lady and the Devil - Bill & Belle Reed
6. The Butcher's Boy - Buell Kazee
7. The Wagoner's Lad - Buell Kazee
8. King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O - Chubby Parker
9. Old Shoes and Leggins - Uncle Eck Dunford
10. Willie Moore - Richard Burnett and Leonard Rutherford
11. A Lazy Farmer Boy - Buster Carter and Preston Young
12. Peg and Awl - Carolina Tar Heels
13. Ommie Wise - G.B. Grayson
14. My Name Is John Johanna - Kelly Harrell

DISC 2:
1. Bandit Cole Younger - Edward L. Crain
2. Charles Giteau - Kelly Harrel
3. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man - Carter Family
4. Gonna Die with My Hammer in My Hand - Williamson Brothers and Curry
5. Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
6. White House Blues - Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers
7. Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
8. When That Great Ship Went Down - William and Versey Smith
9. Engine 143 - Carter Family
10. Kassie Jones - Furry Lewis
11. Down on Penny's Farm - Bently Boys
12. Mississippi Boweavil Blues - Masked Marvel
13. Got the Farm Land Blues - Carolina Tar Heels

DISC 3:
1. Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens
2. The Wild Wagoner - Jilson Setters
3. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
4. La Danseuse - Delma Lachney and Blind Uncle Gaspard
5. Georgia Stomp - Andrew and Jim Baxter
6. Brilliancy Medley - Eck Robertson
7. Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming & His Pep-Steppers
8. Old Country Stomp - Henry Thomas
9. Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson
10. Saut Crapaud - Columbus Fruge
11. Acadian One-Step - Joseph Falcon
12. Home Sweet Home - Breaux Freres
13. Newport Blues - Cincinnati Jug Band
14. Moonshiner's Dance (Part One) - Frank Cloutier and the Victoria Cafe Orchestra

DISC 4:
1. You Must Be Born Again - Rev. J.M. Gates
2. Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting - Rev. J.M. Gates
3. Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
4. Present Joys - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
5. This Song of Love - Middle Georgia Singing Conv. No. 1
6. Judgement - Sister Mary Nelson
7. He Got Better Things for You - Memphis Sanctified Singers
8. Since I Laid My Burden Down - Elders McIntorsh & Edwards' Sanctified Singers
9. John the Baptist - Rev. Moses Mason
10. Dry Bones - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
11. John the Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson
12. Little Moses - Carter Family
13. Shine on Me - Ernest Phipps & Holiness Singers
14. Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee
15. In the Battlefield for My Lord - Rev. D.C. Rice and Congregation

DISC 5:
1. The Coo Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley
2. East Virginia - Buell Kazee
3. Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
4. I Woke Up One Morning in May - Didier Hebert
5. James Alley Blues - Richard 'Rabbit' Brown
6. Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs
7. I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
8. Mountaineer's Courtship - Ernest and Hattie Stoneman
9. The Spanish Merchant's Daughter - Stoneman Family
10. Bob Lee Junior Blues - Memphis Jug Band
11. Single Girl, Married Girl - Carter Family
12. Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme - Cleoma Breaux & Joseph Falcon
13. Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
14. Expressman Blues - Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell

DISC 6:
1. Poor Boy Blues - Ramblin' Thomas
2. Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers
3. Country Blues - Dock Boggs
4. 99 Year Blues - Julius Daniels
5. Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
6. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
7. C'est Si Triste Sans Lui - Cleoma and Ophy Breaux and Joseph Falcon
8. Way Down the Old Plank Road - Uncle Dave Macon
9. Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line - Uncle Dave Macon
10. Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
11. K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band
12. Train on the Island - J.P. Nestor
13. The Lone Star Trail - Ken Maynard
14. Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas

Reissue - Originally released in 1953 as 3 volumes of 2 LPs each, this historic collection is now available as 3 separately packaged boxes containing 6 remastered CDs. Rare photos, interviews and essays are also included. "The most influential and magical document of the American urban folk revival." Billboard.