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.

Songs

• "The Coo Coo Bird -- Clarence Ashley
• "East Virginia -- Buell Kazee
• "Minglewood Blues -- Cannon's Jug Stompers
• "I Woke Up One Morning In May -- Didier Hebert
• "James Alley Blues -- Richard "Rabbit" Brown
• "Sugar Baby -- Dock Boggs
• "I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground" -- Bascom Lamar Lunsford
• "Mountaineer's Courtship" -- Ernest and Hattie Stoneman
• "The Spanish Merchant's Daughter" -- The Stoneman Family
• "Bob Lee Junior Blues" -- The Memphis Jug Band
• "Single Girl, Married Girl" -- The Carter Family
• "Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme" -- Cleoma Breaux and Joseph Falcon
• "Rabbit Foot Blues" -- Blind Lemon Jefferson
• "Expressman Blues" -- Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell
• "Poor Boy Blues" -- Ramblin' Thomas
• "Feather Bed" -- Cannon's Jug Stompers
• "Country Blues" -- Dock Boggs
• "99 Year Blues" -- Julius Daniels
• "Prison Cell Blues" -- Blind Lemon Jefferson
• "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" -- Blind Lemon Jefferson
• "C'est Si Triste Sans Lui"-- Cleoma and Ophy Breaux w/ Joseph Falcon
• "Way Down The Old Plank Road" -- Uncle Dave Macon
• "Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line" -- Uncle Dave Macon
• "Spike Driver Blues" -- Mississippi John Hurt
• "K.C. Moan" -- The Memphis Jug Band
• "Train On The Island" -- J.P. Nestor
• "The Lone Star Trail" -- Ken Maynard
• "Fishing Blues" -- Henry Thomas

Because of their potential public domain status, some of these recordings are available on the Web:

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• The Butcher's Boy (The Railroad Boy) by Buell Kazee
• Dry Bones by Bascom Lamar Lunsford
• I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground by Bascom Lamar Lunsford
• White House Blues by Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers
• The Coo Coo Bird by Clarence Ashley
• The House Carpenter by Clarence Ashley
• Country Blues by Dock Boggs