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Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 1-3 (1997)

by Various Artists

About this title: Originally released in 1952 as a quasi-legal set of three double LPs and reissued several times since (with varying cover art), Anthology of American Folk Music could well be the most influential document of the '50s folk revival. Many of the recordings that appeared on it had languished in obscurity for 20 years, and it proved a revelation to a new group of folkies, from Pete Seeger to John Fahey to Bob Dylan. The man that made the Anthology possible was Harry Smith, a notoriously eccentric musicologist who compiled 84 of his favorite hillbilly, gospel, blues, and Cajun performances from the ... read more

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Henry Lee
Fatal Flower Garden
The House Carpenter
Drunkard's Special
Old Lady and the Devil
The Butcher's Boy (The Railroad Boy)
The Wagoner's Lad
King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O
Old Shoes and Leggins
Willie Moore
A Lazy Farmer Boy
Peg and Awl
Omie Wise
My Name Is John Johanna
Bandit Cole Younger
Charles Giteaux
John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man
Gonna Die With My Hammer in My Hand
Stackalee
White House Blues
Frankie
When That Great Ship Went Down
Engine 143
Kassie Jones
Down on Penny's Farm
Mississippi Boweavil Blues
Got the Farm Land Blues
Sail Away Ladies
The Wild Wagoner
Wake up Jacob
La Danseuse
Georgia Stomp
Brilliancy Medley
Indian War Whoop
Old Country Stomp
Old Dog Blue
Saut' Crapaud
Arcadian One-Step
Home Sweet Home
Newport Blues
Moonshiner's Dance (Pt. 1)
You Must Be Born Again
Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting
Rocky Road
Present Joys
This Song of Love
Judgement
He Got Better Things for You
Since I Laid My Burden Down
John the Baptist
Dry Bones
John the Revelator
Little Moses
Shine on Me
Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
I'm in the Battlefield for My Lord
The Cuckoo
East Virginia
Minglewood Blues
I Woke up One Morning in May
James Alley Blues
Sugar Baby
I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
The Mountaineer's Courtship
The Spanish Merchant's Daughter
Bob Lee Junior Blues
Single Girl, Married Girl
K.C. Moan

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