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Product Description ------------------- Reissue - Originally released in 1953 as 3 volumes of 2 LPs each, this historic collection is now available as 3 separately packaged boxes containing 6 remastered CDs. Rare photos, interviews and essays are also included. "The most influential and magical document of the American urban folk revival." Billboard. .com ---- This impressive--and frankly, fun--musical document is still sending out shock waves almost 50 years after its original 1952 vinyl release. The Smithsonian's six-CD reissue is painstakingly researched, annotated, and packaged (even boasting an enhanced disc for the techno-capable). Unlike field recorders, eccentric filmmaker/collector/musicologist Harry Smith assembled the Anthology from commercially released (though obscure) 78 rpm discs issued between 1927 and 1935. Its broad --from country blues to Cajun social music to Appalachian murder ballads--was monumentally influential, setting musicians like Bob Dylan down the path to folk fandom. The White House started its own national music library with the Anthology; anyone with more than a passing interest in American roots music should do the same. --Michael Ruby More from Smithsonian Folkways The Harry Smith Connection: A Live Tribute To The Anthology Of American Folk Music ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000009Q0L/ref=ed_mus_6x_mc_1 ) Classic Maritime Music from Smithsonian Folkways s ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001XXBC0/ref=ed_mus_6x_mc_2 ) Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001DJ2/ref=ed_music_6x_mc_3 ) Classic ain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006JTG5/ref=ed_mus_6x_mc_4 ) Classic Blues From Smithsonian Folkways ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001DOB/ref=ed_mus_6x_mc_5 ) Folkways: The Original Vision ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000FILN80/ref=ed_mus_6x_mc_6 ) P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Review ------ Named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the 500 GREATEST albums of all-time! -- Rolling Stone, Dec 11, 2003 See more ( javascript:void(0) )