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Anthology of American Folk Music

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At head of container title: The Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Disc 3B includes Enhanced CD program to be used with Windows (requries: IBM or compatible with 486 with 5MB RAM; Windows 3.1 or Windows 95; 2MB hard dirve space; 256 color monitor; sound card; double speed CD-Rom drive) or Macintosh (requires: 68040 or Power PC with 5MB of RAM; System 7.1; 2MB of hard drive space; 256 color monitor; double speed CD-ROM drive).
v. 1. Ballads: Henry Lee -- Fatal flower garden -- House carpenter -- Drunkards special -- Old lady and the devil -- Butchers boy -- Wagoners 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 one-forty-three -- Kassie Jones -- Down on Penny's farm -- Mississippi boweavil blues -- Got the farm land blues. --
v. 2. Social music: Sail away lady -- Wild wagoner -- Wake up Jacob -- La danseuse -- Georgia stomp -- Brilliancy medley -- Indian war whoop -- Old country stomp -- Old dog blue -- Saut crapaud -- Arcadian one step -- Home sweet home -- Newport blues -- Moonshiner dance -- 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 burden down -- John the baptist -- Dry bones -- John the revelator -- Little Moses -- Shine on me -- Fifty miles of elbow room -- I'm in the battle field for the Lord --
v. 3. Songs: Coo coo bird -- East Virginia -- Minglewood blues -- One morning in May -- James alley blues -- Sugar baby -- I wish I was a mole in the ground -- Mountaineer's courtship -- Spanish merchants 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 -- Ninety-nine year blues -- Prison cell blues -- See that my grave is kept clean -- C'est si triste sans lui -- Way down on old Plank road -- Buddy won't you roll down the line -- Spike driver blues -- K.C. moan -- Train on the island -- Lone star trail -- Fishing blues.

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PUBLISHED
Washington, D.C. : Folkways Records, p1997, c1952.
Year Published: 1952
Description: 6 sound discs in 3 containers : analog, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + program notes (68 p.) and guide (28 p.) inserted in container.
Language: English
Format: CD

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Smith, Harry.
Folkways Records.
Smithsonian Institution.

SUBJECTS
Ballads, American.
Folk songs, American.
Blues (Music)
Folk songs, English -- United States.
Microsoft Windows (Computer file) -- CD-Rom.
Macintosh (Computer) -- CD-Rom.