Missouri Classical Music News and Notes

The Anthology of American Folk Music is a compilation of eighty-four folk and country music recordings that were released as 78 rpm records in the 1920s and 1930s. The compilation was originally released in 1952 as a collection of six LPs. The collection is famous due to its role as a touchstone for the US folk music revival in the 1950s and 1960s.

Liner notes and other information about the collection are available on the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings web site.

You can hear several selections from the collection online:

• The Butcher's Boy (The Railroad Boy) by Buell Kazee
  
• Dry Bones by Bascom Lamar Lunsford
  
• White House Blues by Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers
  
• The House Carpenter by Clarence Ashley
  
• Country Blues by Dock Boggs