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| The 4CD set collects the 78 flipsides Harry Smith left off his Anthology of American Folk Music. |
Many historians and musicians cite Smith’s reissue, with its recordings of country, blues, Cajun, and gospel music from the 1920s and ‘30s, and its booklet containing idiosyncratic liner notes, esoteric artwork, and handmade design as a major impetus for the folk music revival of the 1950s and ‘60s and as a source of profound cultural change.
68 years later, The Harry Smith B-Sides offers both a resonant listening experience and the closing of a collector’s circle. Sequenced in the identical order that Smith created, this new box set offers the flip-side of each 78-rpm record that he selected for the original Anthology of American Folk Music.
With newly-remastered audio, these 84 songs over 4 CDs represent a mirror image of the Anthology of American Music’s tracklist, and a way to hear the complete statement of each original 78-rpm record included on Smith’s landmark compilation. The Harry Smith B-Sides comes with a 144 page cork-cover book in a cigar-style box featuring archival images, original artwork by Harry Smith, and essays by John Cohen, Lance Ledbetter, and Eli Smith.
Liner note contributions by more than 80 artists, writers, and musicians that have been inspired by Harry Smith’s work including Daniel Bachman, Devendra Banhart, Sarah Bryan, Rosanne Cash, Dom Flemons, Steve Gunn, Will Oldham, Amanda Petrusich, Steve Roden, Art Rosenbaum, Nathan Salsburg, Peter Stampfel, and many more.
The Harry Smith B-Sides is out today (Friday, October 16) – get it from Dust-To-Digital right here. Listen to Rev. D.C. Rice and his Sanctified Congregation performing "He's Got His Eyes On You" and Dock Boggs' "Down South Blues" followed by the track listing. Check out the Washington Post review over here.
The Harry Smith B-Sides
CD 1
1. Dick Justice – “One Cold December Day”
2. Nelstone's Hawaiians – “Village School”
3. Clarence Ashley – “Old John Hardy”
4. Coley Jones – “The Elder He’s My Man”
6. Buell Kazee – "The Wagoner's Lad"
7. Buell Kazee – "The Butcher's Boy"
8. Chubby Parker & His Old-Time Banjo – “Down on the Farm”
9. Uncle Eck Dunford – “Angeline, the Baker”
10. Burnett and Rutherford – “All Night Long Blues”
11. Buster Carter and Preston Young – “It Won’t Hurt No More”
12. Carolina Tar Heels – “You Are a Little Too Small”
13. G.B. Grayson – “Rose Conley”
14. Kelly Harrell – “My Wife, She Has Gone and Left Me”
15. Edward L. Crain – “Cowboy’s Home Sweet Home”
16. Kelly Harrell – “Henry Clay Beattie”
17. Carter Family – “Bring Me Back My Blue-Eyed Boy”
18. Williamson Brothers & Curry – “Warfield”
19. Frank Hutchison – “Stackalee”
20. Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers – “Monkey on a String”
21. Mississippi John Hurt – “Nobody’s Dirty Business”
CD 2
1. William & Versey Smith – “Everybody Help the Boys Come Home”
2. Carter Family – “I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes”
3. Furry Lewis – “Kassie Jones”
5. The Masked Marvel – “Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues”
6. Carolina Tar Heels – “Back to Mexico”
7. Uncle Bunt Stephens – “Louisburg Blues”
8. J.W. Day – “Marthis Campbell”
9. Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers – “Waltz of Roses”
10. Delma Lachney and Blind Uncle Gaspard – “Le Bebe et le Gambleur (The Baby and the Gambler)”
11. Andrew & Jim Baxter – “Forty Drops”
12. A.C “Eck” Robertson and Family – “Amarillo Waltz”
13. Hoyt Ming and His Pep-Steppers – “Old Red”
14. Henry Thomas – “Bull-Doze Blues”
15. Jim Jackson – “I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop”
16. Columbus Fruge – “Bayou Teche”
17. Joseph Falcon – “Aimer et Perdre (To Love and Lose)”
18. Breaux Freres – “T’As Vole Mon Chapeau (You Have Stolen My Hat)”
19. Cincinnati Jug Band – “George Street Stomp”
20. Frank Cloutier and the Victoria Cafe Orchestra – “Moonshiner's Dance Part Two”
21. Rev. J. M. Gates – “Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting”
22. Rev. J. M. Gates – “Must Be Born Again”
CD 3
1. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers – “Present Joys”
2. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers – “Rocky Road”
3. Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1 – “I Am Going Home”
4. Sister Mary Nelson – “The Royal Telephone”
5. Memphis Sanctified Singers – “The Great Reaping Day”
6. Elders McIntorsh and Edwards –“The Latter Rain Is Fall”
7. Rev. Moses Mason – “Go Wash in the Beautiful Stream”
8. Bascom Lamar Lunsford – “Stepstone”
9. Blind Willie Johnson – “You’re Going to Need Someone on Your Bond”
10. Carter Family – “God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign”
11. Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers – “A Little Talk with Jesus”
12. Rev. F.W. McGee – “Nothing to Do in Hell”
13. Rev. D.C. Rice and His Sanctified Congregation –“He’s Got His Eyes on You”
14. Clarence Ashley – “Dark Holler Blues”
15. Buell Kazee – “Darling Cora”
16. Cannon's Jug Stompers – “Madison Street Rag”
17. E. Segura & D. Herbert – “Far Away from Home Blues”
18. Richard "Rabbit" Brown – “I’m Not Jealous”
19. Dock Boggs – “Down South Blues”
20. Bascom Lamar Lunsford – “Mountain Dew”
CD 4
1. Mr. & Mrs. Ernest V. Stoneman – “The Road to Washington”
2. Stoneman Family – “Too Late”
3. Memphis Jug Band – “I Packed My Suitcase, Started to the Train”
4. Carter Family – “The Storms Are on the Ocean”
5. Joseph Falcon & Cleoma Breaux – “Fe Fe Ponchaux”
6. Blind Lemon Jefferson – “Shuckin’ Sugar Blues”
7. Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell – “Sweet Mama”
8. Ramblin' Thomas – “Ramblin’ Man”
9. Cannon's Jug Stompers – “Riley’s Wagon”
10. Dock Boggs – “Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long”
11. Julius Daniels – “My Mamma Was a Sailor”
12. Blind Lemon Jefferson – “Lemon’s Worried Blues”
13. Blind Lemon Jefferson – “’Lectric Chair Blues”
14. Joseph Falcon & Cleoma Breaux – “Elle M’A Oublie (She Has Forgotten Me)”
15. Uncle Dave Macon – “Rise When the Rooster Crows”
17. Mississippi John Hurt – “Blue Harvest Blues”
18. Memphis Jug Band – “Memphis Yo Yo Blues”
19. J.P. Nestor – “Black-Eyed Susie”
20. Ken Manyard – “The Cowboy’s Lament”
21. Henry Thomas – “Texas Worried Blues”
Omission of Tracks: The producers have omitted the following tracks due to lyrics containing racist language: track 5 on disc 1, track 4 on disc 2, and track 16 on disc 4.
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