Release Date: 19 August, 1997
Audio CD
Tracks
- Henry Lee - Dick Justice
- Fatal Flower Garden - Nelstone's Hawaiians
- House Carpenter - Clarence Ashley
- Drunkard's Special - Coley Jones
- Old Lady and the Devil - Bill & Belle Reed
- Butcher's Boy (The Railroad Boy) - Buell Kazee
- Wagoner's Lad [Loving Nancy] - Buell Kazee
- King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O - Chubby Parker
- Old Shoes and Leggins - Uncle Eck Dunford
- Willie Moore - Richard Burnett
- Lazy Farmer Boy - Buster Carter
- Peg and Awl - The Carolina Tar Heels
- Omie Wise - G.B. Grayson
- My Name Is John Johanna - Kelly Harrell
- Bandit Cole Younger - Edward L. Crain
- Charles Giteaux - Kelly Harrell
- John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man - The Carter Family
- Gonna Die With My Hammer in My Hand - Curry
- Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
- White House Blues - North Carolina Ramblers
- Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
- When That Great Ship Went Down - Versey Smith
- Engine 143 - The Carter Family
- Kassie Jones - Furry Lewis
- Down on Penny's Farm - The Bently Boys
- Mississippi Boweavil Blues - Masked Marvels
- Got the Farm Land Blues - The Carolina Tar Heels
- Sail Away Ladies [Fiddle Solo] - Uncle Bunt Stephens
- Wild Wagoner [Frolic Tune] - Jilson Setters
- Wake up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
- Danseuse [The Dancer] - Blind Uncle Gaspard
- Georgia Stomp - Andrew & Jim Baxter
- Brilliancy Medley - Eck Robertson
- Indian War Whoop [Country Dance] - Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers
- Old Country Stomp - Henry Thomas
- Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson
- Saut' Crapaud [Jump, Frog] - Columbus Frug?©
- Arcadian One-Step - Joseph Falcon
- Home Sweet Home - The Breaux Fr?©res
- Newport Blues - Cincinnati Jug Band
- Moonshiner's Dance (Pt. 1) - Frank Cloutier
- You Must Be Born Again - Reverend J.M. Gates
- Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting - Reverend J.M. Gates
- Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
- Present Joys - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
- This Song of Love - Middle George Singing Convention
- Judgement - Rev. Sister Mary M. Nelson
- He Got Better Things for You - Memphis Sanctified Singers
- Since I Laid My Burden Down
- John the Baptist [Singing Sermon] - Rev. Moses Mason
- Dry Bones - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- John the Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson
- Little Moses - The Carter Family
- Shine on Me - Ernest Phipps
- Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee
- I'm in the Battlefield for My Lord - Rev. D.C. Rice & His Sanctified Congregation
- Cuckoo - Clarence Ashley
- East Virginia - Buell Kazee
- Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- I Woke up One Morning in May - Didier H?©bert
- James Alley Blues - Richard Rabbit Brown
- Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs
- I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- Mountaineer's Courtship - Ernest V. Stoneman
- Spanish Merchant's Daughter - The Stoneman Family
- Bob Lee Junior Blues - Memphis Jug Band
- Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family
- Vieux Soulard et Sa Femme [The Old Drunkard and His Wife] - Cleoma Breaux
- Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Expressman Blues - Sleepy John Estes
- Poor Boy Blues - Ramblin' Thomas
- Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers
- Country Blues - Dock Boggs
- 99 Years Blues - Julius Daniels
- Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- C'Est Si Triste Sans Lui [It Is So Blue Without Him] - Cleoma Breaux
- Way Down the Old Plank Road - Uncle Dave Macon
- Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line - Uncle Dave Macon
- Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
- K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band
- Train on the Island - J.P. Nestor
- Lone Star Trail - Ken Maynard
- Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas
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Rating 5.0
The grandfather of the reissue records This collection led to the "re-discovery" of many artists who had dissapeared after when the depression crippled the recording industry. Mississippi John Hurt is probably the most famous as of now, but others, like Clarence Ashley were major finds at the time - and when Folkways sent a field crew to do a new record by Ashley he requested some assist from a young friend named Doc Watson. Watson was unknown outside his home town at the time but went on to become a major star in a field which has very few stars.
Listening to many cuts on this album you can hear the source of much material for folk groups as diverse as the New Lost City Ramblers and The Holy Modal Rounders, rock groups like Canned Heat, and The Grateful Dead. Some of the melodies will be familiar to fans of Dylan, others to Jorma Kaukonan listeners. There are otehrs -- many many others.
This set is the source, the headwaters of reissues, and revivals. An essential part of any folk music collection. Necessary.I dont think there is a need to go into to much detail about this *6 CD* set. If you can fork over the cash, just buy it. If you have any interest in roots music, just buy it. If you thought ol' Bobby Dylan and the Band made some great weird music in the basement of big pink in '67 .. for the love of god, BUY THIS! strange, unadorned, raw music , just buy it.EssentialMuch ink & many electrons have been devoted to explaining both Harry Smith (and a lot of explanation is necessary -- very interesting man) and this wonderful collection of recordings from the 1920's and 30's, so I won't go into too much detail here. If you'd like a good treatise on the work itself as a cultural object, and how it relates to other thematically similar items, I would reccomend Griel Marcus' book Invisible Republic.
This is the greatest mix tape ever made, and an essential cultural artifact, not only of the vernacular music of the hills & highways of pre-electrification America, but also of the folk movement ofthe fifties and sixties (the primer fromwhic all else was derived) and by extension of the hippy movement following closely thereafter.
SOme of this music is really wild... |
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