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VA - The Harry Smith Project (2006)

The Harry Smith Project: The Anthology Of American Folk Music Revisited

TRACKS:

Disc 1

01. Old Dog Blue - David Johansen [3:52]
02. Prison Cell Blues - Steve Earle [3:50]
03. James Alley Blues - Wilco [4:24]
04. Frankie - Beth Orton [4:44]
05. Last Fair Deal Gone Down - Beck [3:34]
06. Sugar Baby - Kate and Anna McGarrigle [4:30]
07. The Butcher's Boy - Elvis Costello [4:13]
08. Way Down the Old Plank Road - David Thomas [5:14]
09. The Coo Coo Bird - Richard Thompson and Eliza Carthy [4:16]
10. My Baby Done Left Me - Ed Sanders [2:42]
11. John the Revelator - Nick Cave [3:07]
12. Oh Death Where Is They Sting? - Eric Mingus and Gary Lucas [4:30]
13. Dry Bones - Roswell Rudd and Sonic Youth [10:07]
14. No Depression in Heaven - Garth and Maud Hudson [6:51]
15. K.C. Moan - Geoff Muldaur [6:36]
16. When That Great Ship Went Down - Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer [5:35]



Disc 2

01. A Lazy Farmer Boy - Robin Holcomb [3:01]
02. Sail Away Lady - Van Dyke Parks and Mondrian String Quartet [3:00]
03. Poor Boy Blues - Geoff Muldaur [4:22]
04. Spike Driver Blues - Marianne Faithfull [2:46]
05. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Lou Reed [7:29]
06. Ommie Wise Part 1 & 2 (What Lewis Did Last...)
- Kate and Anna McGarrigle with Elvis Costello [8:11]
07. Fatal Flower Garden - Gavin Friday [6:31]
08. I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground - Bob Neuwirth and Eliza Carthy [5:31]
09. Fishing Blues - David Thomas [5:49]
10. He Got Better Things for You - Mary Margaret O'Hara [2:10]
11. Harry Goes a Courtin' - Mocean Worker [3:44]
12. The House Carpenter - Robin Holcomb and Todd Rundgren [5:14]
13. This Song of Love - Don Byron, Percy Heath and Bill Frisell [7:51]
14. Shine on Me - Nick Cave [2:58]
15. James Alley Blues - David Johnansen [4:27]
16. Single Girl Married Girl - Petra Haden [3:54]


FROM ALLMUSIC.COM:

In 1952 a record collector and musicologist named Harry Smith put
together some of his obscure findings, music recorded in various
pockets of America between 1927 and 1934, and released them on Folkways
Records as a six-disc set called The Anthology of American Folk Music.
Many of the artists represented on these recordings had been long
forgotten, if they had ever been acknowledged outside of their
immediate region to begin with. But the songs they sang, and which
Smith rescued from an almost certain death, had a gargantuan impact on
the nascent folk revival of the 1950s and '60s -- which some, Smith
among them, credit for helping to spark social change in the country
during that time -- and ultimately rock music as well. Artists from
Bob Dylan to Jerry Garcia drew inspiration, if not material, from it;
when the anthology was reissued in 1997, new attention was drawn to
these cornerstone songs of Americana and to Smith, who had died in
1991, having finally received recognition for his pioneering efforts
by the likes of the Grammys. In 1999 and 2001, producer Hal Willner,
best known for his creative mixing and matching of talents on tributes
to the likes of Thelonious Monk, Kurt Weill, and cartoon music composer
Carl Stalling, curated three multi-artist concerts to pay tribute to
Smith's anthology. The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk
Music Revisted is a distillation of highlights from those shows, which
were held in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and London. True to form, Willner
selected an eclectic and impressive array of artists to reinterpret the
ancient folk songs. The performers here come from the worlds not only
of singer/songwriter folk but also of jazz, rock, and various hybrids
thereof. Some of the performers stick closely to the song forms as
presented on the original anthology; others reconfigure the music in
their own image. Roswell Rudd, teamed with Sonic Youth, contemporizes
"Dry Bones," attributed on the anthology to Bascom Lamar Lunsford, and
Lou Reed's electrified "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" (Blind Lemon
Jefferson) retains that song's haunting quality while giving it an
urban edge. David Johansen, who recorded a tribute album of his own in
2000 with a band he called the Harry Smiths, appears twice on the
two-CD set, leading off the proceedings with "Old Dog Blue" (originally
by Jim Jackson) and making a return appearance with "James Alley Blues"
(Richard Brown) on disc two. Stellar performances abound, and the
disparate styles coalesce seamlessly. Unsurprisingly, Elvis Costello,
Steve Earle, Marianne Faithfull, Beck (doing Robert Johnson's "Last
Fair Deal Gone Down"), Beth Orton, Wilco, Geoff Muldaur, Kate & Anna
McGarrigle, Van Dyke Parks, and Richard Thompson -- each of whom has
acknowledged a debt to the dustier pages of music history -- all prove
to be masterful and reverential. But some of the highlights come from
unexpected sources: Nick Cave, who appears twice, brings an appropriate
gospel piety to "John the Revelator" and David Thomas, ex-Pere Ubu,
applies his larger-than-life persona to "Fishin' Blues" and "Way Down
the Old Plank Road." Gavin Friday, formerly of the Virgin Prunes, and
a jazz trio comprising Don Byron, Percy Heath, and Bill Frisell -- the
latter contributing a wordless "This Song of Love" -- display the
flexibility of the folk songs Smith brought to light.


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