The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited

Various Artists

A 2 CD / 2 DVD set of contemporary performers revisiting songs from the 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music. The accompanying booklet includes photos by John Cohen.

Tracks

CD tracks:

• Old Dog Blue - David Johansen
• Prison Cell Blues - Steve Earle
• James Alley Blues - Wilco
• Frankie - Beth Orton
• Last Fair Deal Gone Down -
• Sugar Baby - Kate & Anna McGarrigle
• The Butcher's Boy - Elvis Costello
• Way Down the Old Plank Road - David Thomas
• The Coo Coo Bird - Eliza Carthy and Richard Thompson
• My Baby Done Left Me - Ed Sanders
• John the Revelator - Nick Cave
• Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting? - Gary Lucas and Eric Mingus
• Dry Bones - Roswell Rudd with Sonic Youth
• No Depression in Heaven - Garth & Maud Hudson
• K.C. Moan - Geoff Muldaur
• When the Great Ship Went Down - Gavin Friday with Maurice Seezer
• A Lazy Farmer Boy - Robin Holcomb
• Sail Away Lady - Van Dyke Parks with Mondrian String Quartet
• Poor Boy Blues - Geoff Muldaur
• Spike Driver Blues - Marianne Faithfull
• See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Lou Reed
• Ommie Wise, Pts. 1-2 - Kate & Anna McGarrigle
• Fatal Flower Garden - Gavin Friday
• I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground - Eliza Carthy and Bob Neuwirth
• Fishing Blues - David Thomas
• He Got Better Things for You - Mary Margaret O'Hara
• Harry Goes a Courtin' (The Mowo! Live Hootenanny Throw-Down) - Mocean Worker
• The House Carpenter - Robin Holcomb and Todd Rundgren
• This Song of Love - Bill Frisell, Don Byron and Percy Heath
• Shine on Me - Nick Cave
• James Alley Blues - David Johansen
• Single Girl, Married Girl - Petra Haden

• The Butcher's Boy - Elvis Costello
• Old Dog Blue - David Johansen
• John the Revelator - Nick Cave
• Last Fair Deal Gone Down
• Sugar Baby - Kate & Anna McGarrigle
• One Hot Night with Harry Smith - Ed Sanders
• See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Lou Reed
• Frankie - Beth Orton
• Dry Bones - Roswell Rudd with Sonic Youth
• Old Joe's Place - Folksmen
• The House Carpenter - Robin Holcomb and Todd Rundgren
• When That Great Ship Went Down - Maurice Seezer and Gavin Friday
• Étude No. 10 - Philip Glass
• James Alley Blues - Wilco
• Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting - Gary Lucas and Eric Mingus
• Single Girl, Married Girl - Petra Haden
• The Coo Coo Bird - Richard Thompson and Eliza Carthy
• I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground - Bob Neuwirth and Eliza Carthy
• Poor Boy Blues - Geoff Muldaur
• This Song of Love - Don Byron, Bill Frisell and Percy Heath
• Ommie Wise, Pts. 1-2 - Kate & Anna McGarrigle
• Prison Cell Blues - Steve Earle
• Fishing Blues - David Thomas
• Étude No. 10 - Philip Glass
• HS Tone Poem - DJ Spooky
• Harry Goes a Courtin' (The Mowo! Live Hootenanny Throw Down) - Mocean Worker
• Bonus Material