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V.A./ ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC: “Volume One – Ballads – Edited By Harry Smith”

Label: FOLKWAYS RECORDS

Label Number: FA-2951

RARE US Pressing 2 LP set pressed on thick vinyl and housed in sturdy Box Set. Comes all complete with Booklet. Near Mint Condition. .

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2 LP Record Set: Near Mint

Outer Box Set: Excellent ~ Near Mint

Booklet: Near Mint

Some words on this issue: V.A./ ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC: “Volume One – Ballads – Edited By Harry Smith” Harry Smith compilation, documenting amazing Pre-War rural and mountainous US greatness, a treasure trove of magnificent songs the country would never rival again. The high days of unbridled and uncut crystal clear Americana. This is where it all started. “Originally released in 1952 as a quasi-legal set of three double-LPs and reissued several times since (with varying cover art), The Anthology of American Folk Music could well be the most influential document of the '50s folk revival. Many of the recordings which appeared on it had languished in obscurity for 20 years, and it proved a revelation to a new group of folkies – from Pete Seeger to John Fahey To Bob Dylan - who covered the songs, tracked down the artists, and made new field recordings to document other strands of folk music. The man that made the Anthology possible was editor and compiler Harry Smith, a man born in Washington but a drifter much of his life, as well as a painter, filmmaker and anthropologist. From his collection of thousands of old 78-rpm records, Smith compiled 84 of his favorite hillbilly, gospel, blues and Cajun performances from the late '20s and early '30s (all originally issued by labels such as Columbia and Victor), and divided each into one of three categories: Ballads, Social Music and Songs. Smith sequenced the three volumes with a great deal of care, placing songs on the Ballads volume in historical order (not to be confused with chronological order) so as to create an LP which traces the folk tradition, beginning with some of the earliest Childe ballads of the British Isles and ending with several story-songs of the early 20th century, which document happenings of special interest to contemporary listeners, like the sinking of the Titanic or the boll-weevil plague.”. (John Bush – AllMusic). Much of the music found here then, comes from a time before television, arm-in-arm with rock & roll, began beaming its über-culture into every household in America, erasing much of what had grown up locally in each area. As can be heard so beautifully on these ballads, prior to WWII, America was in many ways no more than a patchwork of territories, with local cultures and musical traditions reaching both far into the immigrant past of each area's inhabitants, but also into the future.

Tracklist A1 Dick Justice – Henry Lee 3:28 A2 Nelstone's Hawaiians – Fatal Flower Garden 2:58 A3 Clarence Ashley – The House Carpenter 3:16 A4 Coley Jones – Drunkard's Special 3:16 A5 Bill And Belle Reed – Old Lady And The Devil 3:05 A6 Buell Kazee – The Butcher's Boy 3:05 A7 Buell Kazee – The Wagoner's Lad 3:05 B1 Chubby Parker And His Old Time Banjo – King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O 3:09 B2 Uncle Eck Dunford – Old Shoes And Leggings 3:01 B3 Richard Burnett And Leonard Rutherford – Willie Moore 3:16 B4 Buster Carter & Preston Young – A Lazy Farmer Boy 3:00 B5 Carolina Tar Heels, The – Peg And Awl 2:59 B6 G.B. Grayson – Ommie Wise 3:12 B7 Kelly Harrell And Virginia String Band, The – My Name Is John Johanna 3:13 C1 Edward L. Crain – Bandit Cole Younger 2:57 C2 Kelly Harrell And Virginia String Band, The – Charles Giteau 3:05 C3 Carter Family, The – John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man 2:57 C4 Williamson Brothers, The And Curry (2) – Gonna Die With My Hammer In My Hand 3:26 C5 Frank Hutchison – Stackalee 3:01 C6 Charlie Poole And The North Carolina Ramblers – White House Blues 3:31 C7 Mississippi John Hurt – Frankie 3:28 D1 William And Versey Smith – When That Great Ship Went Down 2:58 D2 Carter Family, The – Engine 143 3:19 D3 Furry Lewis – Kassie Jones 6:16 D4 Bently Boys, The – Down On Penny's Farm 2:50 D5 Masked Marvel, The – Mississippi Boweavil Blues 3:09 D6 Carolina Tar Heels, The – Got The Farm Land Blues 3:17

Credits Compiled By, Edited By – Harry Smith Producer – Moses Asch

Matrix / Runout (Side A): FA 2951A Matrix / Runout (Side B): FA 2951B Matrix / Runout (Side C): FP 251 C / Matrix / Runout (Side D): FP 251 D

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