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Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4
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| Album: Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 |
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Memphis Shakedown - Memphis Jug Band |
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Dog and Gun - Bradley Kincaid |
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Black Jack David - The Carter Family |
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Down on the Banks of the Ohio - The Blue Sky Boys |
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Adieu False Heart - Arthur Smith Trio |
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John Henry Was a Little Boy - J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers |
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Nine Pound Hammer - The Monroe Brothers |
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Southern Casey Jones - Jesse James |
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Cold Iron Bed - Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band |
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Packin' Trunk Blues - Leadbelly |
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Baby, Please Don't Go - Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers |
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Last Fair Deal Gone Down - Robert Johnson |
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Parchman Farm Blues - Bukka White |
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Mean Old World - The Heavenly Gospel Singers |
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Hello Stranger - The Carter Family |
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Stand by Me - Sister Clara Hudmon |
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West Virginia Gals - Al Hopkins & His Bucklebusters |
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How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? - Blind Alfred Reed |
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Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train - Uncle Dave Macon |
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Governor Al Smith - Uncle Dave Macon |
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Milk Cow Blues - Sleepy John Estes |
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No Depression in Heaven - The Carter Family |
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I'll Be Rested (When the Roll Is Called) - Roosevelt Graves and Brother |
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He's in the Ring (Doing the Same Old Thing) - Memphis Minnie |
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Cockeyed World, The - Minnie Wallace |
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Barbecue Bust - Mississippi Jook Band |
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Dans le Grand Bois (In the Forest) - Hackberry Ramblers |
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Aces' Breakdown - The Four Aces |
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Performer Notes - Includes a 96 page hardbound book with essays by Ed Sanders, John Cohen, Dick Spottswood, John Fahey and Greil Marcus.
- Digitally remastered by Dave Glasser (Airshow Mastering, Boulder, Colorado).
- Photographers: Allen Ginsberg; John Palmer.
- Legendary filmmaker/cultural icon Harry Smith (1923-1991) was the living definition of the term "culture vulture." Smith pioneered animation in film and associated with everyone from Jean-Luc Goddard to Billie Holliday and Jimmy Page, and in the early 1950's compiled the six-volume ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC for Folkways Records. This collection's aim was to document the entire continuum of American roots music in all its diversity. It succeeded fabulously (and helped sparked the folk boom of the '50s and '60s). After 50-odd years, Revenant in conjunction with the Harry Smith Archives has released VOLUME FOUR.
- This two-CD set details the beginnings of both 20th century country music and bluegrass (The Blue Sky Boys' "Down on the Banks of the Ohio") as well as their roots in Appalachian/Celtic folk (The Carter Family's "Black Jack David"). The blues, and its impact on folk and rock & roll, is represented by Leadbelly's epochal "Packin' Trunk" (a direct influence on Carl Perkin's rockabilly classic "Matchbox"), and the Memphis Jug Band's rollicking, irreverent "Memphis Shakedown." Anyone wishing to explore the roots of these classic American musics would do well to acquire this edition of HARRY SMITH'S ANTHOLOGY.
Professional Reviews Rolling Stone (8/31/00, pp.69-73) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Lavish....Smith was a master of the segue...[and] had a prophet's ear..."
Entertainment Weekly (5/26/00, p.75) - "...Depression-era and reflects the old folkways' collapse. From Robert Johnson to the Carter Family to a pre-bluegrass Bill Monroe - Smith's ear for greatness was uncanny." - Rating: A
Q (9/00, p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...This final volume is based on his 'content analysis' of the post-1932 Depression period....all the songs are just plain bizarre and have recurring or interwoven themes....it's the CD gift of the season for those in the know."
The Wire (1/01, p.34) - Included in Wire's "50 Records Of The Year" [2000].
The Wire (5/00, p.58) - "...Decades of crackle and fuzz have become inextricable parts of these songs, ghost channels that seem to calling directly over time, a little ruptured window onto another world. We can literally hear the sound of a world slowly retreating into the murk of history..."
CMJ (6/12/00, p.25) - "...Features 28 long-lost ballads and social music recorded between 1928 and 1940....sequenced as Smith originally intended..."
No Depression (5-6/00, pp.100-1) - "...Smith's careful construction compels the listener to experience the album as a whole....this formidable work...is likely to be remembered as one of 2000's finest archival recordings."
Mojo (Publisher) (8/00, p.94) - "...More lives have been touched by the music in these volumes than almost any other source. Dig in and dig it."
| Producer: | Harry Smith; Harry Smith (Compilation) | | Format: | CD | | Country: | USA | | UPC: | 0630814021122 | | Studio/Live: | Studio | | Release Date: | 1 November, 2005 |
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