The Harry Smith project live
Subtitle: concert film
Contributors: Willner, Hal; Smith, Harry Everett, 1923-1991
Publisher: Shout Factory LLC
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780738934396
Subjects: Blues (Music); Folk music; Concert films; English Folk songs
Other titles: Anthology of American folk music.; The Harry Smith project : Anthology of American folk music revisited.
Notes: Videorecording of concerts in 1999 and 2001 staged in London, New York, and Los Angeles to celebrate the eccentric collector Harry Smith and his influential 'Anthology of American folk music.'

Title also available as one of the DVDs in the 2-CD & 2-DVD set, The Harry Smith project : Anthology of American folk music revisited.

Special features: an excerpt from The old, weird America : Harry Smith's 'Anthology of American folk music.'

Produced & directed by Rani Singh ; concerts conceived and directed by Hal Willner ; co-producer, Adam Hyman.

Various performers.

DVD.
Table of contents: title: The butcher's boy -- (Elvis Costello); title: Old dog Blue -- (David Johansen); title: John the revelator -- (Nick Cave); title: Last fair deal gone down -- (Beck); title: Sugar baby -- (Kate & Anna McGarrigle); title: One hot summer night with Harry Smith -- (Ed Sanders); title: See that my grave is kept clean -- (Lou Reed); title: Frankie -- (Beth Orton); title: Dry bones (Roswell Rudd with Sonic Youth) --; title: Old Joe's place -- (The Folksmen); title: The house carpenter -- (Robin Holcomb & Todd Rundgren); title: When that great ship went down -- (Gavin Friday with Maurice Seezer); title: Étude no. 10 -- (Philip Glass); title: James Alley blues -- (David Johansen); title: Oh death where is thy sting? -- (Eric Mingus and Gary Lucas) -- Single girl, married girl -- (Petra Haden) -- The coo coo bird -- (Richard Thompson with Eliza Carthy) -- I wish I was a mole in the ground -- (Bob Neuwirth with Eliza Carthy) -- Poor boy blues -- (Geoff Muldaur); title: This song of love -- (Don Byron, Percy Heath & Bill Frisell); title: Ommie wise pt. 1 & 2 (What Lewis did last ... ) -- (Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Elvis Costello); title: Prison cell blues -- (Steve Earle); title: Fishing blues-- (David Thomas).