
Title
- American Folk Music
Attribution
edited by Harry SmithPublication Details
AudioSmithsonian Folkways/Sony Music Special Products1997Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS MEDIA: OVERSIZE CD MZ400 .A575 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
View record in LOLA catalogSubject
Notes
- Originally released by Folkways Records, 1952 (FP 251–FP 253)
- Compact discs; in box (31 cm.)
- Disc 6 can also be played on CD-ROM drive to access video materials, artist interviews, and additional background information
- Booklet containing essays, program notes, details of the recordings and bibliography (67 p. : ports. ; 31 cm.) laid in container
- Includes facsimile of original (1952) booklet ([28] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.)
- Various performers
- Recorded 1927-1932
Contents
- v. 1. Ballads: Henry Lee ; Fatal flower garden ; House carpenter ; Drunkard’s special ; Old lady and the devil ; The butcher’s boy ; The wagoner’s lad ; King kong kitchie kitchie ki-me-o ; Old shoes and leggins ; Willie Moore ; Lazy farmer boy ; Peg and awl ; Ommie Wise ; My name is John Johanna ; Bandit Cole Younger ; Charles Giteau ; John Hardy was a desperate little man ; Gonna die with my hammer in my hand ; Stackalee ; White House blues ; Frankie ; When that great ship went down ; Engine 143 ; Kassie Jones ; Down on Penny’s farm ; Mississippi boweavil (boll weevil) blues ; Got the farm land blues
- v. 2. Social music: Sail away lady ; The wild wagoner ; Wake up Jacob ; La danseuse ; Georgia stomp ; Brilliancy medley ; Indian war whoop ; Old country stomp ; Old dog blue ; Saut crapaud ; Acadian one-step ; Home sweet home ; Newport blues ; Moonshiner’s dance, part one ; Must be born again ; Oh death where is thy sting ; Rocky road ; Present joys ; This song of love ; Judgement ; He got better things for you ; Since I laid my burden down ; John the Baptist ; Dry bones ; John the revelator ; Little Moses ; Shine on me ; Fifty miles of elbow room ; I’m in the battlefield for my Lord
- v. 3. Songs: The coo coo bird ; East Virginia ; Minglewood blues ; I woke up one morning in May ; James Alley blues ; Sugar baby ; I wish I was a mole in the ground ; The mountaineer’s courtship ; The Spanish merchant’s daughter ; Bob Lee Junior blues ; Single girl, married girl ; Le vieux soulard et sa femme ; Rabbit foot blues ; Expressman blues ; Poor boy blues ; Feather bed ; Country blues ; 99 year blues ; Prison cell blues ; See that my grave is kept clean ; C’est si triste sans lui ; Way down the old plank road ; Buddy won’t you roll down the line ; Spike driver blues ; K.C. moan ; Train on the island ; The Lone Star Trail ; Fishing blues
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