author Aa.vv. (pre war folk blues)   Euro
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title Harry smith's anthology vol 1-4 (8lp box)  
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year 1926 print eu label   doxy   item id. 257503

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Splendida pubblicazione curata dalla Doxy nel 2010, ed ormai molto rara, che mette insieme in una bellissima confezione, una sorta di book in cartone rigido contenente otto albums, ispirata a certi book di 78 giri di ormai arcaica memoria, ben otto albums, ovvero i tre (doppi) volumi delle "Harry Smith Anthology" gia' usciti nel '52 su Folkways in tre distinte pubblicazioni denominate "Ballads", "Social Music" e "Songs", aggiungendo ad essi un quarto volume (anch'esso doppio album) dalla Revenant, denominato "Country Music & Bluegrass", e tratto anch'esso dalla collezione sterminata di Harry Smith, leggendario personaggio americano, dagli interessi innumerevoli che spaziavano dall'esoterismo alla musica, dal cinema d'avanguardia al paranormale che, preso dalla passione per la musica folk americana anteguerra, compilo' i tre volumi della Harry Smith's Anthology grazie alla sua smisurata collezione di 78 giri. Questo progetto illustrava la musica folk americana di varie tradizioni, dalla musica dei bianchi anglosassoni e francofoni a quella degli afroamericani, da quella religiosa a quella mondana, proponendo al pubblico incisioni effettuate principalmente fra il 1927 ed il 1932. Queste tre raccolte (a cui qui se ne aggiunge una imperdibile quarta) hanno una grande importanza perche' hanno contribuito a far conoscere a nuove generazioni di ascoltatori e musicisti tutta la ricchezza dellla musica tradizionale americana, da Blind Lemon Jefferson alla Carter Family, da Mississippi John Hurt a Sleepy John Estes e tutta una serie di nomi ancor meno noti. E' stato messo anche in rilievo da alcuni storici o critici il ruolo propulsivo che le antologie di Smith hanno avuto sulla rinascita della musica folk americana e quindi anche sulla scena del Greenwich Village di New York. I tre volumi sono organizzati in modo tematico ed sottotitolati come segue: ''Ballads'', ''Social music'' e ''Songs''. Il primo volume contiene quindi ballate, molte delle quali tradizionali di origine inglese (child ballads). Questa la scaletta: Dick Justice, ''Henry Lee'' (1929); Nelstone's Hawaiians, ''Fatal flower garden'' (1929); Clarence Ashley, ''The house carpenter'' (1930); Coley Jones, ''Drunkard's special'' (1929); Bill and Belle Reed, ''Old lady and the devil'' (1928); Buell Kazee, ''The butcher's boy'' (1928); Buell Kazee, ''The wagoner's lad'' (1928); Chubby Parker and His Old Time Banjo, ''King Kong Kitchie kitchie ki-me-o'' (1928); Uncle Eck Dunford, ''Old shoes and leggins'' (1928); Burnett and Rutheford, ''Willie Moore'' (1927); Buster Carter and Preston Young, ''A lazy farmer boy'' (1931); The Carolina Tar Heels, ''Peg and awl'' (1928); G.B. Grayson, ''Ommie wise'' (1927); Kelly Harrell and The Virginia String Band, ''My name is John Johanna'' (1927); Edward L. Crain, ''Bandit Cole Younger (1931''; Kelly Harrell and The Virginia String Band, ''Charlers Giteau'' (1927); The Carter Family, ''John Hardy was a desperate little man'' (1928); The Williamson Brothers and Curry, ''Gonna die with my hammer in my hand'' (1927); Frank Hutchinson, ''Stackalee'' (1927); Charlie Poole and The North Carolina Ramblers, ''White house blues'' (1926); Mississippi John Hurt, ''Frankie'' (1928); William and Versey Smith, ''When that great ship went down'' (1927); The Carter Family, ''Engine 143'' (1929); Furry Lewis, ''Kassie Jones, parts 1 and 2'' (1928); The Bently Boys, ''Down on Penny's farm'' (1929); The Masked Marvel, ''Mississippi boweavil blues'' (1929); The Carolina Tar Heels, ''Got the farm land blues'' (1930). Il secondo volume contiene musica suonata in occasione di feste, danze come anche funzioni religiose. Questa la scaletta: Uncle Bunt Stephens, ''Sail away lady'' (1926); Jilson Setters, ''The wild wagoner'' (1928); Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers, ''Wake up Jacob'' (1929); Delma Lachnaey and Blind Uncle Gaspard, ''La danseuse'' (1929); Andrew & Jim Baxter, ''Georgia stomp'' (1928); Eck Robertson and Family, ''Brilliancy medley'' (1929); Hoyt Floyd Ming and his Pep-Steppers, ''Indian war hoop'' (1928); Henry Thomas, ''Old country stomp'' (1928); Jim Jackson, ''Old dog blue'' (1928); Columbus Fruge, ''Saut crapaud'' (1929); Joseph Falcon, ''Acadian one-step'' (1929); The Breaux Freres, ''Home sweet home'' (1934); The Cincinnati Jug Band, ''Newport blues'' (1929); Frank Cloutier, ''Moonshiner's dance, part one'' (1927); Rev. J.M. Gates, ''Must be born again'', ''Oh death where os thy sting'' (1926); Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, ''Rocky road'', ''Present joys'' (1928); The Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1, ''This song of love'' (1930); Rev. Sister Mary Nelson, ''Judgement'' (1927); Memphis Sanctified Singers, ''He got better things for you'' (1929); The Elders McIntosh & Edwards' Sanctified Singers, ''Since I lay my burden down'' (1928); Rev. Moses Mason, ''John the baptist'' (1928); Bascom Lamar Lunsford, ''Dry bones'' (1928); Blind Willie Johnson, ''John the revelator'' (1930); The Carter Family, ''Little Moses'' (1929); Ernest Phipps & his Holiness Singers, ''Shine on me'' (1928); Rev. F.W. McGee, ''Fiftty miles of elbow room'' (1930); Rev. D.C. Rice and his Sanctified Congregation, ''I'm in the battlefield for my lord'' (1929). Il terzo volume contiene canzoni dai temi mondani, delle miserie e delle piccole gioie della vita quotidiana, e non puo' mancare il grande Dock Boggs. Questa la scaletta: Clarence Tom Ashley, ''The coo coo bird'' (1929); Buell Kazee, ''East Virginia'' (1927); Cannon's Jug Stompers with Noah Lewis, ''Minglewood blues'' (1928); Didier Hebert, ''I woke up one morning in May'' (1929); Richard Rabbit Brown, ''James alley blues'' (1927); Dock Boggs, ''Sugar baby'' (1927); Bascom Lamar Lunsford, ''I wish I was a mole in the ground'' (1928); Mr. and Mrs. Ernest V. Stoneman, ''Mountaineer's courtship'' (1927); The Stoneman Family, ''The Spanish merchant's daughter'' (1928); The Memphis Jug Band, ''Bob Lee Junior blues'' (1927); The Carter Family, ''Single girl, married girl'' (1927); Cleoma Breaux and Joseph Falcon, ''Le vieux soulard et sa femme'' (1928); Blind Lemon Jefferson, ''Rabbit foot blues'' (1926); Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell, ''Expressman's blues'' (1930); Ramblin' Thomas, ''Poor boy blues'' (1928); Cannon's Jug Stompers, ''Feather bed'' (1928); Dock Boggs, ''Country blues'' (1927); Julius Daniels, ''99 year blues'' (1927); Blind Lemon Jefferson, ''Prison cell blues'' (1928); Blind Lemon Jefferson, ''See that my grave is kept clean'' (1928); Cleoma and Ophy Breaux and Joseph Falcon, ''C'est si triste sans lui'' (1929); Uncle Dave Macon, ''Way down the old plank road'' (1926); Uncle Dave Macon, ''Buddy won't you roll down the line'' (1928); Mississippi John Hurt, ''Spike driver blues'' (1928); The Memphis Jug Band, ''K.C. moan'' (1929); J.P. Nestor, ''Train on the island'' (1927); Ken Maynard, ''The lone star trail'' (1930); Henry Thomas, ''Fishing blues'' (1928). Il quarto volume contiene musiche country e bluegrass. Questa la scaletta: “Memphis Shakedown” — Memphis Jug Band / “Dog and Gun” (An Old English Ballad) — Bradley Kincaid / “Black Jack David” — The Carter Family / “Down on the Banks of the Ohio” — Blue Sky Boys / “Adieu False Heart” — Arthur Smith Trio / “John Henry was a Little Boy” — J.E. Mainer’s Mountaineers / “Nine Pound Hammer is Too Heavy” — Monroe Brothers / “Southern Casey Jones” — Jesse James / “Cold Iron Bed” — Jack Kelly and his South Memphis Jug Band / “Packin’ Trunk” — Lead Belly / “Baby Please Don’t Go” — Joe Williams’ Washboard Blues Singers / “Last Fair Deal Gone Down” — Robert Johnson / “Parchman Farm Blues” — Bukka White / “Mean Old World” — Heavenly Gospel Singers / “Hello Stranger” — The Carter Family / “Stand By Me” — Sister Clara Hudmon / “West Virginia Gals” — Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters / “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?” — Blind Alfred Reed / “Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train” — Uncle Dave Macon / “Governor Al Smith” — Uncle Dave Macon / “Milk Cow Blues” — John Estes / “No Depression in Heaven” — The Carter Family / “I’ll be Rested (When the Roll is Called)” — Rosevelt Graves and Brother / “He’s in the Ring (Doing the Same Old Thing)” — Memphis Minnie / “The Cockeyed World” — Minnie Wallace / “Barbecue Bust” — Mississippi Jook Band / “Dans le Grand Bois (In the Forest)” — Hackberry Ramblers / “Aces’ Breakdown” — The Four Aces.    
   
     
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