Anthology of American Folk Music

The Anthology of American Folk Music is a recording that collects several dozen folk and country songs which were initially recorded from the 1920s and 1930s, and were first released on 78 rpm records. Although the choice of songs is idiosyncratic, the collection is famous due to its role as a touchstone for the folk music revival in the 1950s and 1960s.

Ballads

• "Henry Lee" -- Dick Justice
• "Fatal Flower Garden" -- Nelstone's Hawaiians
• "The House Carpenter" -- Clarence Ashley
• "Drunkard's Special" -- Coley Jones
• "Old Lady and the Devil" -- Bill & Belle Reed
• "The Butcher's Boy" -- Buell Kazee
• "The Wagoners Lad" -- Buell Kazee
• "King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O" -- "Chubby" Parker & His Old time Banjo
• "Old Shoes And Leggins" -- Uncle Eck Dunford
• "Willie Moore" -- Burnett and Rutherford
• "A Lazy Farmer Boy" -- Buster Carter and Preston Young
• "Peg and Awl" -- The Carolina Tar Heels
• "Ommie Wise" -- G.B. Grayson
• "My Name Is John Johanna" -- Kelly Harrell
• "Bandit Cole Younger" -- Edward L. Crain
• "Charles Guiteau" -- Kelly Harrel
• "John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man" -- The Carter Family
• "Gonna Die With My Hammer In My Hand" -- Wiliamson Brothers and Curry
• "Stackalee" -- Frank Hutchison
• "White House Blues" -- Charlie Poole w/ North Carolina Ramblers
• "Frankie" -- Mississippi John Hurt
• "When That Great Ship Went Down" -- William & Versey Smith
• "Engine 143" -- The Carter Family
• "Kassie Jones" -- Furry Lewis
• "Down On Penny's Farm" -- The Bently Boys
• "Mississippi Boweavil Blues" -- The Masked Marvel
• "Got the Farm Land Blues" -- The Carolina Tar Heels