home

view cart

my account

order status

Home & Garden

Books

Cell Phones & Service

Keyword Search: Riddlin’ Kids

HomeKeyword Search: Riddlin’ Kids

Alternate Views:

Anthology Of American Folk Music (Edited By Harry Smith) (Audio CD)
by Various Artists

(35 customer reviews)

In Stock

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

List Price:	$84.98
Our Price:	$79.95
You Save:	$5.03 ( 5%)

Note: Item may be sold and shipped by another company. Learn more.

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

Product Details:

Audio CD Release Date:	August 19, 1997
Studio:	Smithsonian Folkways
Number Of Discs:	6
Format:	Enhanced, Original recording remastered
Average Customer Rating:	based on 35 reviews

Track Listing:

Disc: 1
1.	Henry Lee - Dick Justice
2.	Fatal Flower Garden - Nelstone's Hawaiians
3.	House Carpenter - Clarence Ashley
4.	Drunkard's Special - Coley Jones
5.	Old Lady and the Devil - Bill & Belle Reed
6.	Butcher's Boy (The Railroad Boy) - Buell Kazee
7.	Wagoner's Lad [Loving Nancy] - 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, Leonard Rutherford
11.	Lazy Farmer Boy - Buster Carter, Preston Young
12.	Peg and Awl - The Carolina Tar Heels
13.	Omie Wise - G.B. Grayson
14.	My Name Is John Johanna - Kelly Harrell

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

Disc: 3
1.	Sail Away Ladies [Fiddle Solo] - Uncle Bunt Stephens
2.	Wild Wagoner [Frolic Tune] - Jilson Setters
3.	Wake up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
4.	Danseuse [The Dancer] - Blind Uncle Gaspard, Delma Lachney
5.	Georgia Stomp - Andrew & Jim Baxter
6.	Brilliancy Medley - Eck Robertson
7.	Indian War Whoop [Country Dance] - Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers
8.	Old Country Stomp - Henry Thomas
9.	Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson
10.	Saut' Crapaud [Jump, Frog] - Columbus Frugé
11.	Arcadian One-Step - Joseph Falcon
12.	Home Sweet Home - The Breaux Fréres
13.	Newport Blues - Cincinnati Jug Band
14.	Moonshiner's Dance (Pt. 1) - Frank Cloutier, Victoria Cafe Orchestra

Disc: 4
1.	You Must Be Born Again - Reverend J.M. Gates
2.	Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting - Reverend 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 Convention
6.	Judgement - Rev. Sister Mary M. Nelson
7.	He Got Better Things for You - Memphis Sanctified Singers
8.	Since I Laid My Burden Down
9.	John the Baptist [Singing Sermon] - 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
14.	Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee
15.	I'm in the Battlefield for My Lord - Rev. D.C. Rice & His Sanctified Congregation

Disc: 5
1.	Cuckoo - Clarence Ashley
2.	East Virginia - Buell Kazee
3.	Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
4.	I Woke up One Morning in May - Didier Hébert
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 V. Stoneman, Hattie Stoneman
9.	Spanish Merchant's Daughter - The Stoneman Family, The Stonemans
10.	Bob Lee Junior Blues - Memphis Jug Band
11.	Single Girl, Married Girl - Carter Family
12.	Vieux Soulard et Sa Femme [The Old Drunkard and His Wife] - Cleoma Breaux, Joseph Falcon
13.	Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
14.	Expressman Blues - Sleepy John Estes

Disc: 6
1.	Poor Boy Blues - Ramblin' Thomas
2.	Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers
3.	Country Blues - Dock Boggs
4.	99 Years 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 [It Is So Blue Without Him] - Cleoma Breaux, Ophy Breaux, 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.	Lone Star Trail - Ken Maynard
14.	Fishin' Blues - Henry Thomas

Customer Reviews:

Average Customer Review: 5.0

Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.

classic roots music Dec 27, 2009
want to hear the folks that created Rock and Country Music look no farthera music education in one box.

1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

more than I expected Nov 21, 2009
Being a music lover of all types and already having collections of songs from this era (the era is a small window of time between the advent of electronic recording and the commercial influence from the spread of radio and TV), I expected this to be just another collection of songs from this time period. It is much more than that! It stands alone as a work of art. There is one booklet that come with it that will explain the history of the anthology, its influence on the music of the sixties, and how much effort went in to cataloging details of the music. Another booklet was by Harry Smith and part of the original release. Every collection should have such a helpful and interesting book as he included! These are part of the experience as well. The songs are honest and excellent! It is hard to put a finger on it, so just put an ear to it. Harry Smith was an expert musicologist, a master in the field, with a huge and mysterious talent.

Hill Billy music Nov 03, 2009
Music like this was once broad cast on every little radio station in the rural south and much of it predates that. I don't just resemble that remark. I can recall the stuff as a kid. It does kind of sound like AM radio or a gramophone but this stuff pretty much predates the more modern electronics. The only way to get this stuff to sound like modern multichannel music is to rerecord it from scratch and they used the originals whenever they could.

The Roots Is The Toots Sep 02, 2009
It is no secret that the reviewer in this space has been on something of a tear of late in working through a litany of items concerning American roots music, a music that he first discovered in his youth with the folk revival of the early 1960s and with variations and additions over time has held in high regard for his whole adult life. Thus a review of musicologist (if that is what he though he was, it is not all that clear from his "career" path that this was so) Harry Smith's seminal "Anthology Of American Folk Music" is something of a no-brainer.

Since we live in a confessional age, however, here is the odd part. As familiar as I am with Harry Smith's name and place in the folk pantheon, his seemingly tireless field work and a great number of the songs in his anthology this is actually the first time that I have heard the whole thing at one sitting and in one place. Oh sure, back in the days of my ill-spent youth listening to an old late Sunday folk show I would perk up every time the name Harry Smith came up as the "discoverer" of some gem of a song from the 1920s or 1930s but to actually listen to ,or even attempt to find, the whole compilation then just didn't happen.

In 1997 Smithsonian/Folkway, as least threoretically in my case, remedied that problem with the release of a high quality (given the masters) six CD set of old Harry's 80 plus recordings. Not only that but, as is usual with Smithsonian, a very nicely done booklet with all kinds of good information from the likes of Greil Marcus and the late folklorist Eric Von Schmidt (of "Light Rain" and Joshua's Gone Barbados" among others fame) accompanies this set. That booklet is worth the price of admission alone on this one. But here is the funny thing after running through the whole collection. I mentioned above that this was the first time that I heard the collection as a whole. Nevertheless, over time I have actually heard (and reviewed in this space), helter-skelter, most of the material in the collection, except a few of the more exotic gospel songs. So I guess that youth was not so ill-spent after all. If the "roots is toots" for you, get this thing.

Note: For a list of the all the tracks in the entire collection just Google "the Harry Smith Collection" and click onto Wikipedia's entry for Harry Smith.

an important and amazing collection Jun 06, 2009
For lovers of old folk music, this collection is a must have. The music is absolutely amazing, from the ballads to the gospel tunes, and the novelty songs, it just is incredible start to finish. It's also an important work in the history of acoustic music when one considers the influence it's had on so many musicians. This set is lots of great listening.

Bestsellers

Groundhog Day (15th Anniversary Special Edition) [Blu-ray]

Bill Murray is at his wry, wisecracking best in this riotous romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp on the worst day of his life. Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer (Andie MacDowell) and a smart-aleck cameraman (C ...

List Price:	$28.95
Our Price:	$12.99
You Save:	$15.96 (55%)

Across the Universe [Blu-ray]

Across the Universe, from director Julie Taymor, is a revolutionary rock musical that re-imagines America in the turbulent late-1960s, a time when battle lines were being drawn at home and abroad. When young dockworker Jude (Jim Sturgess) leaves Live ...

List Price:	$38.96
Our Price:	$14.99
You Save:	$23.97 (62%)

Underworld Trilogy (Underworld / Underworld: Evolution / Underworld: Rise of the Lycans) [Blu-ray]

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE

List Price:	$92.95
Our Price:	$47.99
You Save:	$44.96 (48%)

About Us Contact Us Privacy Policy Shipping Policy
Free Shipping on Orders $25 and Up!

Anthology Of American Folk Music (Edited By Harry Smith) (Audio CD) by Various Artists

Anthology Of American Folk Music (Edited By Harry Smith) (Audio CD)
by Various Artists