Cover image for Anthology of American folk music. Volume 1. Ballads [CD]
Title:
Anthology of American folk music. Volume 1. Ballads [CD]
Publication Date:
1997
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Folkways/Sony Music Special Products, ℗1997.
Physical Description:
2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Smithsonian Folkways/Sony Music Special Products: SFW 40090 (A 28746--A 28747).

Originally released by Folkways Records, 1952 (FP 251).
Performers:
Various performers.
Contents:
Disc 1: Henry Lee / Dick Justice (3:26) -- Fatal flower garden / Nelstone's Hawaiians (2:55) -- The house carpenter / Clarence Ashley (3:14) -- Drunkard's special / Coley Jones (3:16) -- Old lady and the Devil / Bill and Belle Reed (3:02) -- The butcher's boy / Buell Kazee (3:02) -- The wagoner's lad / Buell Kazee (3:02) -- King kong kitchie kitchie ki-me-o / Chubby Parker (3:08) -- Old shoes and leggins / Uncle Eck Dunford (2:59) -- Willie Moore / Richard Burnett and Leonard Rutherford (3:13) -- A lazy farmer boy / Buster Carter and Preston Young (2:57) -- Peg and Awl / The Carolina Tar Heels (2:57) -- Ommie wise / G.B. Grayson (3:09) -- My name is John Johanna / Kelly Harrell (3:12). Disc 2: Bandit Cole Younger / Edward L. Crain (2:54) -- Charles Giteau / Kelly Harrell (3:03) -- John Hardy was a desperate little man / The Carter Family (2:55) -- Gonna die with my hammer in my hand / Williamson Brothers and Curry (3:24) -- Stackalee / Frank Hutchison (2:58) -- White house blues / Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers (3:31) -- Frankie / Mississippi John Hurt (3:25) -- When that great ship went down / William and Versey Smith (2:55) -- Engine 143 / The Carter Family (3:16) -- Kassie Jones / Furry Lewis (6:13) -- Down on Penny's farm / Bently Boys (2:47) -- Mississippi boweavil blues / The Masked Marvel (3:07) -- Got the farm land blues / Carolina Tar Heels (3:16).
Language:
English
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