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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 . 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 Ephemera l, he took them seriously and accumulated a collection of several thousand recordings. 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. 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). 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. Ballads # "Henry Lee" -- Dick Justice # "Fatal Flower Garden" -- Nelstone's Hawaiians # "The House Carpenter" -- Clarence Ashley # "Drunkard's Special" -- Coley Jones # "Old Lady and the Devil" -- Bill & Belle Reed # "The Butcher's Boy" -- Buell Kazee # "The Wagoners Lad" -- Buell Kazee # "King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O" -- "Chubby" Parker & His Old time Banjo # "Old Shoes And Leggins" -- Uncle Eck Dunford # " Willie Moore " -- Burnett And Rutherford # "A Lazy Farmer Boy" -- Buster Carter and Preston Young # "Peg and Awl" -- The Carolina Tar Heels # " Ommie Wise " -- G.B. Grayson # "My Name Is John Johanna " -- Kelly Harrell # "Bandit Cole Younger " -- Edward L. Crain # " Charles Guiteau " -- Kelly Harrel # "John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man" -- The Carter Family # "Gonna Die With My Hammer In My Hand" -- Wiliamson Brothers And Curry # " Stackalee " -- Frank Hutchison # "White House Blues" -- Charlie Poole w/ North Carolina Ramblers # "Frankie" -- Mississippi John Hurt # " When That Great Ship Went Down " -- William & Versey Smith # "Engine 143" -- The Carter Family # " Kassie Jones " -- Furry Lewis # "Down On Penny's Farm" -- The Bently Boys # "Mississippi Boweavil Blues" -- The Masked Marvel # "Got the Farm Land Blues" -- The Carolina Tar Heels Social Music # "Sail Away Lady" -- "Uncle Bunt" Stephens # "The Wild Wagoner" -- Jilson Setters # "Wake Up Jacob" -- Prince Albert Hunt 's Texas Ramblers # "La Danseuse" -- Delma Lachney and Blind Uncle Gaspard # "Georgia Stomp" -- Andrew & Jim Baxter # "Brilliancy Medley" -- Eck Robertson and Family # "Indian War Whoop" -- Hoyt Ming and his Pep-Steppers # "Old Country Stomp" -- Henry Thomas # "Old Dog Blue" -- Jim Jackson # "Saut Crapaud" -- Columbus Fruge # "Acadian One Step" -- Joseph Falcon # "Home Sweet Home" -- The Breaux Freres ( Clifford Breaux , Ophy Breaux , Amedee Breaux ) # "Newport Blues" -- The Cincinnati Jug Band # "Moonshiner's Dance Part One" -- Frank Cloutier and the Victoria Cafe Orchestra # "Must Be Born Again" -- Rev. J. M. Gates # "Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting" -- Rev. J. M. Gates # "Rocky Road" -- Alabama Sacred Harp Singers # "Present Joys" -- Alabama Sacred Harp Singers # "This Song of Love" -- Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1 # "Judgement" -- Sister Mary Nelson # "He Got Better Things For You" -- Memphis Sanctified Singers # "Since I Laid My Burden Down" -- Elders McIntorsh and Edwards ' Sanctified Singers # "John The Baptist" -- Rev. Moses Mason # "Dry Bones" -- Bascom Lamar Lunsford # "John the Revelator" -- Blind Willie Johnson # "Little Moses' -- The Carter Family # "Shine On Me" -- Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers # "Fifty Miles of Elbow Room" -- Rev. F.W. McGee # "I'm In the Battle Field for My Lord" -- Rev. D.C. Rice and His Sanctified Congregation Songs # "The Coo Coo Bird -- Clarence Ashley # "East Virginia -- Buell Kazee # "Minglewood Blues -- Cannon's Jug Stompers # "I Woke Up One Morning In May -- Didier Hebert # "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 and Hattie Stoneman # "The Spanish Merchant's Daughter" -- The Stoneman Family # "Bob Lee Junior Blues" -- The Memphis Jug Band # "Single Girl, Married Girl" -- The Carter Family # "Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme" -- Cleoma Breaux and Joseph Falcon # "Rabbit Foot Blues" -- Blind Lemon Jefferson # "Expressman Blues" -- Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell # "Poor Boy Blues" -- Ramblin' Thomas # "Feather Bed" -- Cannon's Jug Stompers # "Country Blues" -- Dock Boggs # "99 Year 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"-- Cleoma and Ophy Breaux w/ Joseph Falcon # "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" -- The Memphis Jug Band # "Train On The Island" -- J.P. Nestor # "The Lone Star Trail" -- Ken Maynard # "Fishing Blues" -- Henry Thomas Because of their potential public domain status, some of these recordings are available on the Web:
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