Blog: So Well Remembered

Does a body good. Welcome to the third and final installment of our humble series on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music . For those of you who've missed the previous installments, please scroll down to our two previous posts. Volume 3 of the Anthology , Songs, features blues and non-narrative songs, many mysterious in origin. The strangest and most otherworldly tunes are found on the Songs discs. More importantly, Songs is where Harry Smith's skill as an editor and compiler is to be admired. Essentially, Smith was putting together a [...]

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