The Harry Smith project
Subtitle: Anthology of American folk music revisited
Contributors: Singh, Rani; Willner, Hal
Publisher: Shout Factory; Distributed by Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif; New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] :
ISBN-13: 9780738934976
Subjects: Blues (Music); Folk music; English Folk songs
Other titles: Anthology of American folk music revisited; Anthology of American folk music.
Notes: Sound recordings 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.'

Originally packaged as part of 2-CD & 2-DVD set.

Various performers.

Companion booklet (789.9 H2499) contains essays, photos, and credits.
Table of contents: title: disc 1.; title: Old dog Blue -- (David Johansen); title: Prison cell blues -- (Steve Earle); title: James Alley blues -- (Wilco); title: Frankie -- (Beth Orton); title: Last fair deal gone down -- (Beck); title: Sugar baby -- (Kate & Anna McGarrigle); title: The butcher's boy -- (Elvis Costello); title: Way down the Old Plank Road -- (David Thomas); title: The coo coo bird -- (Richard Thompson with Eliza Carthy); title: My baby done left me -- (Ed Sanders); title: John the revelator -- (Nick Cave); title: Oh death where is thy sting? -- (Eric Mingus and Gary Lucas); title: Dry bones -- (Roswell Rudd with Sonic Youth); title: No depression in Heaven -- (Garth & Maude Hudson); title: K.C. moan -- (Geoff Muldaur); title: When that great ship went down-- (Gavin Friday with Maurice Seezer); title: disc 2.; title: A lazy farmer boy -- (Robin Holcomb); title: Sail away lady -- (Van Dyke Parks with Mondrian String Quartet); title: Poor boy blues -- (Geoff Muldaur); title: Spike driver blues -- (Marianne Faithfull); title: See that my grave is kept clean -- (Lou Reed); title: Ommie wise part 1 & 2 (what Lewis did last...) -- (Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Elvis Costello); title: Fatal flower garden -- (Gavin Friday); title: I wish I was a mole in the ground -- (Bob Neuwirth with Eliza Carthy); title: Fishing blues -- (David Thomas); title: He got better things for you -- (Mary Margaret O'Hara); title: Harry goes a courtin' (The mowo! Live hootenanny throw-down) -- (Mocean Worker); title: The house carpenter -- (Robin Holcomb & Todd Rundgren); title: This song of love -- (Don Byron, Percy Heath & Bill Frisell); title: Shine on me -- (Nick Cave); title: James Alley blues -- (David Johansen); title: Single girl, married girl-- (Petra Haden).