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| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Category: Music
List Price: $84.98
Buy New: $57.28
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 6041
Format: Enhanced, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 12.4 x 0.9
MPN: 40090
UPC: 093074009024
EAN: 0093074009024
ASIN: B000001DJU
Release Date: August 19, 1997
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Condition: All products brand new and factory sealed.
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The grandfather of the reissue records February 20, 2005
Anthony Spadaro (Chapel Hill N.C.)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
This collection led to the "re-discovery" of many artists who had dissapeared after when the depression crippled the recording industry. Mississippi John Hurt is probably the most famous as of now, but others, like Clarence Ashley were major finds at the time - and when Folkways sent a field crew to do a new record by Ashley he requested some assist from a young friend named Doc Watson. Watson was unknown outside his home town at the time but went on to become a major star in a field which has very few stars.
Listening to many cuts on this album you can hear the source of much material for folk groups as diverse as the New Lost City Ramblers and The Holy Modal Rounders, rock groups like Canned Heat, and The Grateful Dead. Some of the melodies will be familiar to fans of Dylan, others to Jorma Kaukonan listeners. There are otehrs -- many many others.
This set is the source, the headwaters of reissues, and revivals. An essential part of any folk music collection.
Musical Mystery Tour October 6, 1998
tcbnyc (New York, NY USA)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
It's amazing how this music, aside from being great on its own terms, echoes today in the most valid current artists. Certain songs will immediately call to mind Kurt Cobain, Bob Dylan, Beggars Banquet-era Stones, Beck, Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, etc. Then you realize that this music was recorded about 70 years ago, under much different circumstances. Yet people had the same feelings as we do now, and occasionally expressed them in similar ways. It eerily connects the listener to another time and place, as does all of the best music. I can't recommend this set enough. The packaging is magnificent as well.
Essential November 29, 2002
Matt Duane Griffin (MA United States)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Much ink & many electrons have been devoted to explaining both Harry Smith (and a lot of explanation is necessary -- very interesting man) and this wonderful collection of recordings from the 1920's and 30's, so I won't go into too much detail here. If you'd like a good treatise on the work itself as a cultural object, and how it relates to other thematically similar items, I would reccomend Griel Marcus' book Invisible Republic.
This is the greatest mix tape ever made, and an essential cultural artifact, not only of the vernacular music of the hills & highways of pre-electrification America, but also of the folk movement ofthe fifties and sixties (the primer fromwhic all else was derived) and by extension of the hippy movement following closely thereafter.
SOme of this music is really wild...
Earth shattering September 2, 1999
Linwood I. Greer (Richmond, VA USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
The power of this set to change your outlook on music cannot be overstated. My third grade teacher had the set in vinyl and a turntable in the back of the room (1959) and I would rush through my work to listen to this beautifully human yet alien stuff. It made me a musician.
My goodness February 4, 2001
John McBride (Cohasset, MA USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Recently aquired The Band's remasters, and the Dylan Bootleg Series vols 1-3, and the Q Magazine Special on Bobby - which linked Dylan/The Band back to the Anthology - via Greil Marcus's book, Invisible Republic. Which I read first! So, looking for something I hadn't heard before, and eager to hear the music I'd "heard" Marcus talking about, I decided to give the Anthology a whirl last weekend - and have been spinning ever since. It is wierd, wonderful, and spooky - and profound! What a combination - the more you commit to it, the worse/better it gets. Just stunning. An aquired variety of tastes, sure, but so is malt whisky. And once you get the taste, you're addicted - so tread carefully.
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