SCD 306 Box Sound Lib. Oversize Anthology of American folk music / edited by Harry Smith. - Smithsonian Folkways, 1997. - 6 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Compact disc. Reissue of album set first released in 1952. Includes handbook of the original notes edited by Harry Smith, and a booklet of essays, appreciations and annotations.

Volume one: ballads: CD 1a: 1. Henry Lee / Dick Justice -- 2. Fatal flower garden / Nelstone's Hawaiians -- 3. House carpenter / Clarence Ashley -- 4. Drunkards special / Coley Jones -- 5. Old lady and devil / Bill and Belle Reed -- 6. The butchers boy/ Buell Kazee -- 7. The wagoners lad / Buell Kazee -- 8. King Kong kitchie kitchie ki-me-o / 'Chubby' Parker -- 9. Shoes and leggins / Uncle Eck Dunford -- 10. Willie Moore / Burnett & Rutherford -- 11. A lazy farmer boy / Carter & Young -- 12. Peg and awl / Carolina Tar Heels -- 13. Ommie Wise / G.B. Grayson -- 14. My name is John Johanna / Kelly Harrell -- CD 1b: 15. Bandit Cole Younger / Edward L. Crain -- 16. Charles Giteau / Kelly Harrell -- 17. John Hardy was a desperate little man / The Carter Family -- 18. John Henry / Williamson & Curry -- 19. Stackalee / Frank Hutchison -- 20. White House blues / Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers: -- 21. Frankie / Mississippi John Hurt -- 22. When that great ship went down / William and Versey Smith -- 23. Engine 143 / The Carter Family: -- 24. Kassie Jones / Furry Lewis -- 25. Down on Pennys Farm / The Bently Boys -- 26. Mississippi boweavil blues / The Masked Marvel -- 27. Got the farm land blues / The Carolina Tar Heels -- Volume two: social music: CD 2a: 28. Sail away lady / "Uncle Bunt" Stephens -- 29. The wild wagoner / J.W. Day (Jilson Setters) -- 30. Wake up Jacob / Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers -- 31. La danseuse / Delma Lachney & Blind Uncle Gaspard -- 32. Georgia Stomp / Andrew and Jim Baxter -- 33. Brilliancy medley / Eck Robertson and family -- 34. Indian war whoop / Hoyt Ming and the Pep Steppers -- 35. Old country stomp / Henry Thomas -- 36. Old dog blue / Jim Jackson -- 37. Saut crapaud / Columbus Fruge -- 38. Arcadian one step / Joseph Falcon -- 39. Home sweet home / Breaux Freres - 40. Newport blues / Cincinnati Jug Band -- 41. Moonshiners dance / Frank Cloutier and the Victoria Cafe Orchestra -- CD 2b: 42 Must be born again / Rev. J. M.Gates -- 43. Oh death, where is thy sting? / Rev. J. M. Gates -- 44. Rocky road / Alabama Sacred Harp Singers -- 45. Present joys / Alabama Sacred Harp Singers -- 46. This song of love / Middle Georgia Singing Convention -- 47. Judgement / Sister M. Nelson -- 48. He got better things for you / Memphis Sanctified Singers -- 49. Since I laid my burden down / The Elders McIntosh and Edwards Sanctified Singers -- 50. John the Baptist / Rev. Moses Mason -- 51. Dry bones / Bascom Lamar Lunsford -- 52. John the Revelator / Blind Willie Johnson -- 53. Little Moses / The Carter Family -- 54. Shine on me / Ernest Phipps and his Holiness Singers -- 55. Fifty miles of elbow room / Rev. F. M. McGee -- 56. I'm in the battlefield for my Lord / Rev. D. C. Rice and his Sanctified Congregation - Volume three: songs: CD 3a: 57. The coo coo bird / Clarence Ashley -- 58. East Virginia / Buell Kazee -- 59. Minglewood blues / Cannons Jug Stompers -- 60. One morning in May / Didier Herbert -- 61. James Alley / Richard 'Rabbit' Brown -- 62. Sugar baby / Dock Boggs -- 63. I wish I was a mole in the ground / Bascom Lamar Lunsford -- 64. The mountaineer's courtship / Mr & Mrs Ernest V. Stoneman -- 65. The Spanish merchant's daughter / Stoneman Family -- 66. Bob Lee Junior blues / Memphis Jug Band -- 67. Single girl, married girl / The Carter Family -- 68. Le vieux soulard et sa femme / Clemo Breaux & Joseph Falcon -- 69. Rabbit foot blues / Blind Lemon Jefferson -- 70. Expressman blues / John Estes -- CD 3b: 71. Poor boy blues / Ramblin' Thomas -- 72. Feather bed / Cannon's Jug Stompers -- 73. Country blues / Dock Boggs -- 74. Ninety-nine year blues / Julius Daniels -- 75. Prison cell blues / Blind Lemon Jefferson -- 76. See that my grave is kept clean / Blind Lemon Jefferson -- 77. C'est si triste sans lui / Clemo Breaux with Joe Falcon and Ophy Breaux -- 78. Way down the old plank road / Uncle Dave Macon -- 79. Buddy won't you roll down the line / Uncle Dave Macon -- 80. Spike driver blues / Mississippi John Hurt -- 81. K. C. moan / Memphis Jug Band -- 82. Train on the island / J. P.Nestor -- 83. The Lone Star trail / Ken Maynard -- 84. Fishing blues / Henry Thomas.



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