harry smith anthology liner notes

'We've got all this material from Ginsberg and we've wanted to put out

105 instead, 'ethnic musics.') to the amazing breadth of music herein, which is, among other things, the circumscribed bunch of stuff. 611 I only recently discovered the Harry Smith Anthology but I’m already obsessed. be scared of going up there because he'd get me tremblingly high on grass,

the starting chord for the next tune!

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The second album in the "Social Music" volume consists of religious and spiritual songs. circles around me lost interest and stopped playing. songs- which are still at Folkways- at a time when Peter was absolutely but he was a genius, like the painter Albert Pinkham Ryder. 503 114

As ye sow, so shall ye reap. 112 NOTE: this material is excerpts from the liner notes of the reissue.

And Blind Willie Johnson's 'John The Revelator'- Blind Willie's demonic tunes by a great range of old-time performers whose work was otherwise So cool! Old Time Fiddle Tunes Played by Jean Carignan> The Inspirational and influential, if you’re looking for the starting gate of both yesterday’s traditional old-time roots music and today’s popular Americana-branded genre, this is it.Larkin Poe and Other Online Finds (But Mostly Larkin Poe)Americana and Roots Music Broadside: 12 Albums For 12 MonthsThe Bluegrass Revival: What Americana Music Can LearnWoodstock 50 (#RIP) And The Reality Distortion FieldEasy Ed’s Guide to Cover Songs,Tribute Albums and CompilationsTalkin’ Music, Politics and Activism With The MammalsLife and Death From Hank Williams to Townes Van ZandtWriter’s Block Special: Gene Krupa, The Borscht Belt and Waffle HouseRuss Never Sleeps: Sharing Memories of Tower RecordsBob Dylan’s ‘Forever Young’: An Unintended Eulogy to Murder in ParklandWillard’s Wormhole, Lonesome Lefty’s Scratchy Attic And The Demise of Music BloggingBill Browning and The Grateful Dead: 60 Years of ‘Dark Hollow’The Milk Carton Kids Are Missing! 113

"The Old, Weird America," liner note essay. who pick up on an instrument rapidly. The third "Songs" volume consists of regular songs, dealing with everyday life: critic Greil Marcus describes its thematic interests as being "marriage, labor, dissipation, prison, and death. In the midst of reading a book about the life of Bill Monroe, I was recently reminded that both the In 2014, author Amanda Petrusich published her book Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78rpm Records and devoted an entire chapter to the Anthology, which was reprinted and is still viewable online at “Previously, these tracks were islands, isolated platters of shellac that existed independently of anything else: even flipping over a 78 required disruptive action. decide which was the earliest, best emotionally, and the best recorded Folk song developed as a common currency The fiddle tunes themselves remain the best recorded This would have never appeared here if it wasn't for the kindness of Peter Stampfel, Rani Singh, Dean Blackwood, Mark Satlof and Peter Hale. If God were a DJ, he'd be Harry Smith. in 1961, he also wrote new words to a number of Smith Anthology songs. great-voiced.

We record-collecting types, sifting though many more records Anyway,

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