Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 1
Album by Various Artists
Released	1952
Recorded	?
Genre	Folk
Length	?
Label	Smithsonian Folkways
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	Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 1 (1952)

The Anthology of American Folk Music is a recording that collects several dozen folk and country songs which were initially recorded from the 1920s and 1930s, and were first released on 78 rpm records. Although the choice of songs is idiosyncratic, the collection is famous due to its role as a touchstone for the folk music revival in the 1950s and 1960s. Image File history File links Nocover. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... The term Various Artists is used in the record industry when numerous singers and musicians collaborate on a song or collection of songs. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Folk can refer to a number of different things: It can be short for folk music, or, for folksong, or, for folklore; it may be a word for a specific people, tribe, or nation, especially one of the Germanic peoples; it might even be a calque on the related German... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) is (among many other tasks) primarily responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for mass production and commercial release. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links Description: Rating stars. ... The term Various Artists is used in the record industry when numerous singers and musicians collaborate on a song or collection of songs. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... Country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, Celtic Music, Blues, Gospel music, and Old-time music. ... Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America and in Australia as the Roaring Twenties . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. ... // Events and trends The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ... A gramophone record, (also phonograph record or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the the baby boom from returning GIs who... The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...

Harry Smith was a bohemian who lived in Berkeley, California in the late 1940s and 1950s. Although he considered himself an abstract-expressionist, with a special interest in film, he had a hobby collecting old folk and country records. At a time when many people considered these records ephemeral, he took them seriously and accumulated a collection of several thousand recordings. Harry Everett Smith (1923–1991) was an American born in Portland, Oregon; he was an archivist, ethnomusicologist, student of anthropology, record collector, experimental filmmaker, artist, bohemian and Kabbalist. ... Though a Bohemian is a native of the Czech province of Bohemia, a secondary meaning for bohemian emerged in 19th century France. ... Berkeley as seen from the Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve Berkeley is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California, in the United States. ... // Events and trends The 1940s were seen as a transition period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s, which also leads the period to be divided in two halves: The first half of the decade was dominated by World War II, the widest and most destructive armed conflict in... This USPS stamp illustrates Pollocks drip technique. ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... Ephemera are documents published with a short intended lifetime. ...

In 1952, Smith compiled 84 of his favorite songs on a collection of six LPs. This work provided direct inspiration to much of the emergent folk music movement. Selections were culled by Harry Smith from his personal record collection, picked for their commercial appeal during a specific period of time, 1926 to 1932. Smith chose his time boundaries for the reasons that, as he stated himself, "1927, when electronic recording made possible accurate music reproduction, and 1932, when the Depression halted folk music sales." Many previously obscure songs became standards at hootenannies and folk clubs due to their inclusion on the Anthology. Some of the musicians represented on the Anthology saw their musical careers revived, and made additional recordings and live appearances. 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Hootenanny was an early 1960s variety show and is currently the title of a show by Jools Holland every New Years Eve on BBC2 in the UK. A gathering at which folksingers entertain often with the audience joining in. ... Folk clubs were primarily an urban phenomenon of the 1960s and 1970s. ...

The album is divided into three sections, Ballads, Social Music, and Songs. A fourth collection, including union songs and some songs recorded after World War II, was created but not released until 2000. Harry Smith created the liner notes himself, and these notes are almost as famous as the music. Smith used a fragmented, collage method that presaged some postmodern artwork, and he wrote narrative summaries of all the songs. Smith incorporated the music into his own unusual cosmology. Each of the four albums is associated with a color (Blue, Red, Green, and Yellow respectively), and an element (Water, Fire, Air, and Earth). World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb. ... Collage (From the French, collé, to stick) is the assemblage of different forms creating a new whole. ... Postmodernity (also called post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is a term used by philosophers, social scientists, art critics and social critics to refer to aspects of contemporary art, culture, economics and social conditions that are the result of the unique features of late 20th century and early 21st century... Cosmology, from the Greek: κοσμολογία (cosmologia, κόσμος (cosmos) world + λογια (logia) discourse) is the study of the universe in its totality and by extension mans place in it. ...

The Anthology originally appeared on the Folkways label established by Moses Asch. In 1997, Smithsonian Folkways republished the collection on six CDs. In 2000, Revenant Records released the fourth collection on two CDs and two LPs. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Moses (Moe) Asch was the founder of Folkways Records and a key figure in bringing folk music into the American mainstream. ... Revenant Records is a record label based in Austin, Texas which concentrates on folk and blues. ...

Ballads

1. "Henry Lee" -- Dick Justice
2. "Fatal Flower Garden" -- Nelstone's Hawaiians
3. "The House Carpenter" -- Clarence Ashley
4. "Drunkard's Special" -- Coley Jones
5. "Old Lady and the Devil" -- Bill & Belle Reed
6. "The Butcher's Boy" -- Buell Kazee
7. "The Wagoners Lad" -- Buell Kazee
8. "King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O" -- "Chubby" Parker & His Old time Banjo
9. "Old Shoes And Leggins" -- Uncle Eck Dunford
10. "Willie Moore" -- Burnett and Rutherford
11. "A Lazy Farmer Boy" -- Buster Carter and Preston Young
12. "Peg and Awl" -- The Carolina Tar Heels
13. "Ommie Wise" -- G.B. Grayson
14. "My Name Is John Johanna" -- Kelly Harrell
15. "Bandit Cole Younger" -- Edward L. Crain
16. "Charles Guiteau" -- Kelly Harrel
17. "John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man" -- The Carter Family
18. "Gonna Die With My Hammer In My Hand" -- Wiliamson Brothers and Curry
19. "Stackalee" -- Frank Hutchison
20. "White House Blues" -- Charlie Poole w/ North Carolina Ramblers
21. "Frankie" -- Mississippi John Hurt
22. "When That Great Ship Went Down" -- William & Versey Smith
23. "Engine 143" -- The Carter Family
24. "Kassie Jones" -- Furry Lewis
25. "Down On Penny's Farm" -- The Bently Boys
26. "Mississippi Boweavil Blues" -- The Masked Marvel
27. "Got the Farm Land Blues" -- The Carolina Tar Heels

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Social Music

1. "Sail Away Lady" --"Uncle Bunt" Stephens
2. "The Wild Wagoner" --Jilson Setters
3. "Wake Up Jacob" -- Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
4. "La Danseuse" -- Delma Lachney and Blind Uncle Gaspard
5. "Georgia Stomp" -- Andrew & Jim Baxter
6. "Brilliancy Medley" -- Eck Robertson and Family
7. "Indian War Whoop" -- Hoyt Ming and his Pep-Steppers
8. "Old Country Stomp" -- Henry Thomas
9. "Old Dog Blue" --Jim Jackson
10. "Saut Crapaud" -- Columbus Fruge
11. "Acadian One Step" -- Joseph Falcon
12. "Home Sweet Home" -- The Breaux Freres (Clifford Breaux, Ophy Breaux, Amedee Breaux)
13. "Newport Blues" -- The Cincinnati Jug Band
14. "Moonshiner's Dance Part One" -- Frank Cloutier and the Victoria Cafe Orchestra
15. "Must Be Born Again" -- Rev. J. M. Gates
16. "Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting" -- Rev. J. M. Gates
17. "Rocky Road" -- Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
18. "Present Joys" -- Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
19. "This Song of Love" -- Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1
20. "Judgement" -- Sister Mary Nelson
21. "He Got Better Things For You" -- Memphis Sanctified Singers
22. "Since I Laid My Burden Down" -- Elders McIntorsh and Edwards' Sanctified Singers
23. "John The Baptist" -- Rev. Moses Mason
24. "Dry Bones" -- Bascom Lamar Lunsford
25. "John the Revelator" -- Blind Willie Johnson
26. "Little Moses' -- The Carter Family
27. "Shine On Me" -- Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers
28. "Fifty Miles of Elbow Room" -- Rev. F.W. McGee
29. "I'm In the Battle Field for My Lord" -- Rev. D.C. Rice and His Sanctified Congregation

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Songs

1. "The Coo Coo Bird -- Clarence Ashley
2. "East Virginia -- Buell Kazee
3. "Minglewood Blues -- Cannon's Jug Stompers
4. "I Woke Up One Morning In May -- Didier Hebert
5. "James Alley Blues -- Richard "Rabbit" Brown
6. "Sugar Baby -- Dock Boggs
7. "I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground" -- Bascom Lamar Lunsford
8. "Mountaineer's Courtship" -- Ernest and Hattie Stoneman
9. "The Spanish Merchant's Daughter" -- The Stoneman Family
10. "Bob Lee Junior Blues" -- The Memphis Jug Band
11. "Single Girl, Married Girl" -- The Carter Family
12. "Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme" -- Cleoma Breaux and Joseph Falcon
13. "Rabbit Foot Blues" -- Blind Lemon Jefferson
14. "Expressman Blues" -- Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell
15. "Poor Boy Blues" -- Ramblin' Thomas
16. "Feather Bed" -- Cannon's Jug Stompers
17. "Country Blues" -- Dock Boggs
18. "99 Year Blues" -- Julius Daniels
19. "Prison Cell Blues" -- Blind Lemon Jefferson
20. "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" -- Blind Lemon Jefferson
21. "C'est Si Triste Sans Lui"-- Cleoma and Ophy Breaux w/ Joseph Falcon
22. "Way Down The Old Plank Road" -- Uncle Dave Macon
23. "Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line" -- Uncle Dave Macon
24. "Spike Driver Blues" -- Mississippi John Hurt
25. "K.C. Moan" -- The Memphis Jug Band
26. "Train On The Island" -- J.P. Nestor
27. "The Lone Star Trail" -- Ken Maynard
28. "Fishing Blues" -- Henry Thomas

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• The Butcher's Boy (The Railroad Boy) by Buell Kazee
• Dry Bones by Bascom Lamar Lunsford
• I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground by Bascom Lamar Lunsford
• White House Blues by Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers
• The Coo Coo Bird by Clarence Ashley
• The House Carpenter by Clarence Ashley
• Country Blues by Dock Boggs

See also Dock Boggs Moran Lee Dock Boggs (February 7, 1898–February 7, 1971) was an influential old-time singer, songwriter and banjo player. ...

• [1] Anthology page on Smithsonian Folkways website