Reissue – Originally released in 1953 as 3 volumes of 2 LPs each, this historic collection is now available as 3 separately packaged boxes containing 6 remastered CDs. Rare photos, interviews and essays are also included. “The most influential and magical document of the American urban folk revival.” Billboard.

Label: Smithsonian Folkways
UPC: 093074009024
Release Date: August 19, 1997

Track List

1. Henry Lee – Dick Justice
2. Fatal Flower Garden – Nelston’s Hawaiians
3. House Carpenter – Clarence Ashley
4. Drunkard’s Special – Coley Jones
5. Old Lady and the Devil – Bill ; Belle Reed
6. The Butcher’s Boy – Buell Kazee
7. The Wagoner’s Lad – Buell Kazee
8. King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O – Chubby Parker
9. Old Shoes and Leggins – Uncle Eck Dunford
10. Willie Moore – Richard Burnett and Leonard Rutherford
11. A Lazy Farmer Boy – Buster Carter and Preston Young
12. Peg and Awl – Carolina Tar Heels
13. Ommie Wise – G.B. Grayson
14. My Name Is John Johanna – Kelly Harrell
15. Bandit Cole Younger – Edward L. Crain
16. Charles Giteau – Kelly Harrel
17. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man – Carter Family
18. Gonna Die with My Hammer in My Hand – Williamson Brothers and Curry
19. Stackalee – Frank Hutchison
20. White House Blues – Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers
21. Frankie – Mississippi John Hurt
22. When That Great Ship Went Down – William and Versey Smith
23. Engine 143 – Carter Family
24. Kassie Jones – Furry Lewis
25. Down on Penny’s Farm – Bently Boys
26. Mississippi Boweavil Blues – Masked Marvel
27. Got the Farm Land Blues – Carolina Tar Heels
28. Sail Away Lady – Uncle Bunt Stephens
29. The Wild Wagoner – Jilson Setters
30. Wake Up Jacob – Prince Albert Hunt’s Texas Ramblers
31. La Danseuse – Delma Lachney and Blind Uncle Gaspard
32. Georgia Stomp – Andrew and Jim Baxter
33. Brilliancy Medley – Eck Robertson
34. Indian War Whoop – Hoyt Ming ; His Pep-Steppers
35. Old Country Stomp – Henry Thomas
36. Old Dog Blue – Jim Jackson
37. Saut Crapaud – Columbus Fruge
38. Acadian One-Step – Joseph Falcon
39. Home Sweet Home – Breaux Freres
40. Newport Blues – Cincinnati Jug Band
41. Moonshiner’s Dance (Part One) – Frank Cloutier and the Victoria Cafe Orchestra
42. You Must Be Born Again – Rev. J.M. Gates
43. Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting – Rev. J.M. Gates
44. Rocky Road – Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
45. Present Joys – Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
46. This Song of Love – Middle Georgia Singing Conv. No. 1
47. Judgement – Sister Mary Nelson
48. He Got Better Things for You – Memphis Sanctified Singers
49. Since I Laid My Burden Down – Elders McIntorsh ; Edwards’ Sanctified Singers
50. John the Baptist – Rev. Moses Mason
51. Dry Bones – Bascom Lamar Lunsford
52. John the Revelator – Blind Willie Johnson
53. Little Moses – Carter Family
54. Shine on Me – Ernest Phipps ; Holiness Singers
55. Fifty Miles of Elbow Room – Rev. F.W. McGee
56. In the Battlefield for My Lord – Rev. D.C. Rice and Congregation
57. The Coo Coo Bird – Clarence Ashley
58. East Virginia – Buell Kazee
59. Minglewood Blues – Cannon’s Jug Stompers
60. I Woke Up One Morning in May – Didier Hebert
61. James Alley Blues – Richard ‘Rabbit’ Brown
62. Sugar Baby – Dock Boggs
63. I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground – Bascom Lamar Lunsford
64. Mountaineer’s Courtship – Ernest and Hattie Stoneman
65. The Spanish Merchant’s Daughter – Stoneman Family
66. Bob Lee Junior Blues – Memphis Jug Band
67. Single Girl Married Girl – Carter Family
68. Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme – Cleoma Breaux ; Joseph Falcon
69. Rabbit Foot Blues – Blind Lemon Jefferson
70. Expressman Blues – Sleepy John Estes ; Yank Rachell
71. Poor Boy Blues – Ramblin’ Thomas
72. Feather Bed – Cannon’s Jug Stompers
73. Country Blues – Dock Boggs
74. 99 Year Blues – Julius Daniels
75. Prison Cell Blues – Blind Lemon Jefferson
76. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean – Blind Lemon Jefferson
77. C’est Si Triste Sans Lui – Cleoma and Ophy Breaux and Joseph Falcon
78. Way Down the Old Plank Road – Uncle Dave Macon
79. Buddy Won’t You Roll Down the Line – Uncle Dave Macon
80. Spike Driver Blues – Mississippi John Hurt
81. K.C. Moan – Memphis Jug Band
82. Train on the Island – J.P. Nestor
83. The Lone Star Trail – Ken Maynard
84. Fishing Blues – Henry Thomas