Various Artists : Anthology of American Folk Music
Genre: Various	Dates: 1927-1934

If by chance you do get to the bottom of American Pop, here's its underground mirror image: an even stranger world, haunted by cryptic murderers, presidential assassins, ominous birds, animal newlyweds, runaway trains, dead dogs, raving preachers, subversive moles, Indian war whoopers, ghost-horses, lonesome cowboys, and happy fishermen. What else would you expect from a set compiled by a jack-of-all-trades anarchist? And if anything explains Bob Dylan, this does: he knew this 84-song collection backwards and forwards before he turned 21. Featuring the Carter Family, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Dock Boggs, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Mississippi John Hurt, Charley Patton, Uncle Dave Macon, and a host of other fine Americans.

Playlist:

DISC 1: VOLUME ONE-BALLADS
1. Henry Lee - Dick Justice
2. Fatal Flower Garden - Nelstone's Hawaiians
3. House Carpenter, The - Clarence Ashley
4. Drunkard's Special - Coley Jones
5. Old Lady And The Devil - Bill Reed/Belle Reed
6. Butcher's Boy (The Railroad Boy), The - Buell Kazee
7. Wagoner's Lad (Loving Nancy), The - Buell Kazee
8. King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O - Chubby Parker
9. Old Shoes And Leggins - Uncle Eck Dunford
10. Willie Moore - Burnett And Rutherford
11. Lazy Farmer Boy, A - Buster Carter/Preston Young
12. Peg And Awl - The Carolina Tar Heels
13. Ommie Wise - G.B. Grayson
14. My Name Is John Johanna - Kelly Harrell
DISC 2: VOLUME ONE-BALLADS, CONT.
1. Bandit Cole Younger - Edward L. Crain
2. Charles Giteau - Kelly Harrel
3. John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man - The Carter Family
4. Gonna Die With My Hammer In My Hand - The Willliamson Brothers/Curry
5. Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
6. White House Blues - Charlie Poole/The North Carolina Ramblers
7. Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
8. When That Great Ship Went Down - William Smith/Versey Smith
9. Engine 143 - The Carter Family
10. Kassie Jones - Furry Lewis
11. Down On Penny's Farm - The Bently Boys
12. Mississippi Boweavil Blues - The Masked Marvel
13. Got The Farm Land Blues - The Carolina Tar Heels
DISC 3: VOLUME TWO-SOCIAL MUSIC
1. Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens
2. Wild Wagoner, The - Jilson Setters
3. Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
4. La Danseuse - Delma Lachney/Blind Uncle Gaspard
5. Georgia Stomp - Andrew Baxter/Jim Baxter
6. Brilliancy Medley - Eck Roberson
7. Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming & His Pep Steppers
8. Old Country Stomp - Henry Thomas
9. Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson
10. Saut Crapaud - Columbus Fruge
11. Acadian One-Step - Joseph Falcon
12. Home Sweet Home - Breaux Freres
13. Newport Blues - The Cincinnati Jug Band
14. Moonshiner's Dance Part One - Frank Cloutier And The Victoria Cafe Orchestra
DISC 4: VOLUME TWO-SOCIAL MUSIC, CONT.
1. You Must Be Born Again - Rev. J.M. Gates
2. Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting - Rev. J.M. Gates
3. Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
4. Present Joys - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
5. This Song Of Love - Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1
6. Judgement - Sister Mary Nelson
7. He Got Better Things For You - Memphis Sanctified Singers
8. Since I Laid My Burden Down - The Elders McIntorsh/Edwards' Sanctified Singers
9. John The Baptist - Rev. Moses Mason
10. Dry Bones - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
11. John The Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson
12. Little Moses - The Carter Family
13. Shine On Me - Ernest Phipps & Holiness Singers
14. Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee
15. In The Battlefield For My Lord - Rev. D C Rice And Congregation
DISC 5: VOLUME THREE-SONGS
1. Coo Coo Bird, The - Clarence Ashley
2. East Virginia - Buell Kazee
3. Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
4. I Woke Up One Morning In May - Didier Hebert
5. James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown
6. Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs
7. I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
8. Mountaineer's Courtship, The - Ernest And Hattie Stoneman
9. Spanish Merchant's Daughter, The - The Stoneman Family
10. Bob Lee Junior Blues - The Memphis Jug Band
11. Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family
12. Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme - Cleoma Breaux & Joseph Falcon
13. Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
14. Expressman Blues - Sleepy John Estes/Yank Rachell
DISC 6: VOLUME THREE-SONGS, CONT.
1. Poor Boy Blues - Ramblin' Thomas
2. Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers
3. Country Blues - Dock Boggs
4. 99 Year Blues - Julius Daniels
5. Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
6. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
7. C'Est Si Triste Sans Lui - Cleoma And Ophy Breaux/Joseph Falcon
8. Way Down The Old Plank Road - Uncle Dave Macon
9. Buddy Won't You Roll Down The Line - Uncle Dave Macon
10. Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
11. K.C. Moan - The Memphis Jug Band
12. Train On The Island - J.P. Nestor
13. Lone Star Trail, The - Ken Maynard
14. Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas