Various Artists - Anthology Of American Folk Music [ECD]

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Anthology of American Folk Music (Edited by Harry Smith)

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Specifications

• Anthology of American Folk Music (Edited by Harry Smith) available on February 14 2015 from Amazon for 68.39
  
• Various Artists - Anthology Of American Folk Music ECD available on October 18 2014 from Base for 60.99
  
• UPC bar code 093074009024 ξ1 registered November 04 2014
  
• UPC bar code 093074009024 ξ2 registered September 14 2014
  
• UPC bar code 093074009024 ξ3 registered September 27 2014
  
• Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - Folk Audio Music
• Manufacturered by Smithsonian Folkways
  

• Product weight is 2.43 lbs.
  

Over 50 years after its original 1952 vinyl release, this is still the best American roots music collection around! Musicologist Harry Smith assembled the anthology from 78 rpm discs issued between 1927 and 1935. This 6-CD reissue was painstakingly researched, annotated and packaged to perfection. With 84 rare tracks, this one is a library all by itself! Includes Drunkard's Special Coley Jones; Peg and Awl Carolina Tar Heels; Frankie Mississippi John Hurt; Engine 143 Carter Family; Indian War Whoop Hoyt Ming & His Pep-Steppers; Newport Blues Cincinnati Jug Band; John the Revelator Blind Willie Johnson; Fifty Miles of Elbow Room Rev. F.W. McGee; Sugar Baby Dock Boggs; See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Blind Lemon Jefferson; The Lone Star Trail Ken Maynard, and many more! This impressive--and frankly, fun--musical document is still sending out shock waves almost 50 years after its original 1952 vinyl release. The Smithsonian's six-CD reissue is painstakingly researched, annotated, and packaged (even boasting an enhanced disc for the techno-capable). Unlike field recorders, eccentric filmmaker/collector/musicologist Harry Smith assembled the Anthology from commercially released (though obscure) 78 rpm discs issued between 1927 and 1935. Its broad scope--from country blues to Cajun social music to Appalachian murder ballads--was monumentally influential, setting musicians like Bob Dylan down the path to folk fandom. The White House started its own national music library with the Anthology; anyone with more than a passing interest in American roots music should do the same. --Michael Ruby More from Smithsonian Folkways

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References

^ Anthology American Folk Music / Various by Various Artists (CD, 1997) UPC 093074009024 (revised Jul 2021)
^ Anthology of American Folk Music (1997). Anthology of American Folk Music (Edited by Harry Smith), Smithsonian Folkways. Amazon. UPC 093074009024 (revised Feb 2015)
^ Various Artists - Anthology Of American Folk Music [ECD] Base. UPC 093074009024 (revised Oct 2014)