Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music - Complete 4 volumes (8LPs) VINYL
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This is the complete 4 volume (4 x 2lp - 8 LPs total) set of the legendary collection of American folk music compiled by folklorist Harry Smith in 1952, re-issued on Doxy records in 2009. This was a seminal collection that inspired a host of artists including Bob Dylan, John Fahey, Patti Smith, Nick Cave and hundreds more. All volumes are coloured vinyl and in Near Mint, unplayed condition, with no marks or scratches. Please get in touch if you have any questions!
The full track-list is:
Volume One: Ballads
"Henry Lee" — Dick Justice (1932) "Fatal Flower Garden" — Nelstone's Hawaiians (1930) "The House Carpenter" — Clarence Ashley (1930) "Drunkard's Special" — Coley Jones (1929) "Old Lady and the Devil" — Bill & Belle Reed (1928) "The Butcher's Boy" — Buell Kazee (1928) "The Waggoner's Lad" — Buell Kazee (1928) "King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O" — Chubby Parker (1928) "Old Shoes and Leggins" — Uncle Eck Dunford (1929) "Willie Moore" — Burnett and Rutherford (1927) "A Lazy Farmer Boy" — Buster Carter and Preston Young (1930) "Peg and Awl" — The Carolina Tar Heels (1929) "Ommie Wise" — G. B. Grayson (1929) "My Name Is John Johanna" — Kelly Harrell (1927) "Bandit Cole Younger" — Edward L. Crain (1930) "Charles Guiteau" — Kelly Harrell (1927) "John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man" — The Carter Family (1930) "Gonna Die with My Hammer in My Hand" — Wiliamson Brothers and Curry (1927) "Stackalee" — Frank Hutchison (1927) "White House Blues" — Charlie Poole w/ North Carolina Ramblers (1926) "Frankie" — Mississippi John Hurt (1928) "When That Great Ship Went Down" — William & Versey Smith (1927) "Engine 143" — The Carter Family (1927) "Kassie Jones" — Furry Lewis (1928) "Down On Penny's Farm" — The Bently Boys (1929) "Mississippi Boweavil Blues" — Charlie Patton (1929) "Got the Farm Land Blues" — The Carolina Tar Heels (1932)
Volume Two: Social music
"Sail Away Lady" — "Uncle Bunt" Stephens (1926) "The Wild Wagoner" — Jilson Setters (1928) "Wake Up Jacob" — Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers (1929) "La Danseuse" — Delma Lachney and Blind Uncle Gaspard (1929) "Georgia Stomp" — Andrew & Jim Baxter (1929) "Brilliancy Medley" — Eck Robertson and Family (1930) "Indian War Whoop" — Floyd Ming and his Pep-Steppers (1928) "Old Country Stomp" — Henry Thomas (1928) "Old Dog Blue" — Jim Jackson (1928) "Saut Crapaud" — Columbus Fruge (1929) "Acadian One Step" — Joseph Falcon (1929) "Home Sweet Home" — The Breaux Freres (Clifford Breaux, Ophy Breaux, Amedee Breaux) (1933) "Newport Blues" — Cincinnati Jug Band (1929) "Moonshiner's Dance Part One" — Frank Cloutier and the Victoria Cafe Orchestra (1927) "Must Be Born Again" — Rev. J. M. Gates (1927) "Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting" — Rev. J. M. Gates (1927) "Rocky Road" — Alabama Sacred Harp Singers (1928) "Present Joys" — Alabama Sacred Harp Singers (1928) "This Song of Love" — Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1 (1932) "Judgement" — Sister Mary Nelson (1927) "He Got Better Things for You" — Memphis Sanctified Singers (1929) "Since I Laid My Burden Down" — Elders McIntorsh and Edwards' Sanctified Singers (1929) "John the Baptist" — Moses Mason (1928) "Dry Bones" — Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1929) "John the Revelator" — Blind Willie Johnson (1930) "Little Moses" — The Carter Family (1932) "Shine on Me" — Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers (1930) "Fifty Miles of Elbow Room" — Rev. F.W. McGee (1931) "I'm in the Battle Field for My Lord" — Rev. D.C. Rice and His Sanctified Congregation (1929)
Volume Three: Songs
"The Coo Coo Bird — Clarence Ashley (1929) "East Virginia" — Buell Kazee (1929) "Minglewood Blues" — Cannon's Jug Stompers (1928) "I Woke Up One Morning in May" — Didier Hebert (1929) "James Alley Blues" — Richard "Rabbit" Brown (1927) "Sugar Baby" — Dock Boggs (1928) "I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground" — Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1928) "Mountaineer's Courtship" — Ernest Stoneman and Hattie Stoneman (1926) "The Spanish Merchant's Daughter" — The Stoneman Family (1930) "Bob Lee Junior Blues" — The Memphis Jug Band (1927) "Single Girl, Married Girl" — The Carter Family (1927) "Le vieux soûlard et sa femme" — Cleoma Breaux and Joseph Falcon (1928) "Rabbit Foot Blues" — Blind Lemon Jefferson (1927) "Expressman Blues" — Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell (1930) "Poor Boy Blues" — Ramblin' Thomas (1929) "Feather Bed" — Cannon's Jug Stompers (1928) "Country Blues" — Dock Boggs (1928) "99 Year Blues" — Julius Daniels (1927) "Prison Cell Blues" — Blind Lemon Jefferson (1928) "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" — Blind Lemon Jefferson (1928) "C'est si triste sans lui" — Cleoma Breaux and Ophy Breaux w/ Joseph Falcon (1929) "Way Down the Old Plank Road" — Uncle Dave Macon (1926) "Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line" — Uncle Dave Macon (1930) "Spike Driver Blues" — Mississippi John Hurt (1928) "K.C. Moan" — The Memphis Jug Band (1929) "Train on the Island" — J.P. Nestor (1927) "The Lone Star Trail" — Ken Maynard (1930) "Fishing Blues" — Henry Thomas (1928)
Volume Four: Country Music & Bluegrass
"Memphis Shakedown" — Memphis Jug Band "Dog and Gun [Old English Ballad]" — Bradley Kincaid "Black Jack David" — Carter Family "Down on the Banks of the Ohio" — Blue Sky Boys "Adieu False Heart" — Arthur Smith Trio "John Henry Was a Little Boy" — J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers "Nine Pound Hammer" — Monroe Brothers "Southern Casey Jones" — Jesse James "Cold Iron Bed" — Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band "Packin' Trunk Blues" — Lead Belly "Baby, Please Don't Go" — Joe Williams & Washboard Blues Singers "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" — Robert Johnson "Parchman Farm Blues" — Bukka White "Mean Old World" — Heavenly Gospel Singers "Hello Stranger" — Carter Family "Stand by Me" — Sister Clara Hudmon "West Virginia Gals" — Al Hopkins & Bucklebusters "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" — Blind Alfred Reed "Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train" — Uncle Dave Macon "Governor Al Smith" — Uncle Dave Macon "Milk Cow Blues" — Sleepy John Estes "No Depression in Heaven" — Carter Family "I'll Be Rested (When the Roll Is Called)" — Roosevelt Graves "He's in the Ring (Doing the Same Old Thing)" — Memphis Minnie "The Cockeyed World" — Minnie Wallace "Barbecue Bust" — Mississippi Jook Band "Dans le Grand Bois (In the Forest)" — Hackberry Ramblers "Aces' Breakdown" — The Four Aces
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