Dust-to-Digital: The Harry Smith B-Sides, a four-CD box set [Release: Oct. 16]
Dust-to-Digital has announced the October 16th release of The Harry Smith B-Sides. 68 years after Folkways Records published Harry Smith’s legendary six-LP series entitled the Anthology of American Folk Music, Dust-to-Digital present The Harry Smith B-Sides, a resonant listening experience and the closing of a collector’s circle. Sequenced in the identical order that Smith created, The Harry Smith B-Sides offers the flip-side of each record selected for the original Anthology of American Folk Music.
The Harry Smith B-Sides will be released as a four-CD box set.
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[image error]Harry Smith, 1968.Credit: Courtesy John Cohen Archives
In 1952, Folkways Records published the legendary six-LP series entitled the Anthology of American Folk Music, compiled by eccentric record collector, filmmaker, artist, and anthropologist Harry Smith. Many historians cite Smith’s reissue, with its recordings of country, blues, 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. 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 record selected by Smith for the original Anthology of American Folk Music.
Essays by John Cohen, Lance Ledbetter, and Eli Smith.
Transcriptions and annotations for each track 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, and Peter Stampfel.
•Newly-remastered audio under license from Gennett Records, Paramount Records, Sony Music Entertainment, and Universal Music Group. This four-CD box set represents a mirror image of the Anthology of American Folk Music’s tracklist. However, 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. Full tracklist below.
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[image error]Andrew and Jim BaxterCredit: Courtesy Dust-to-Digital
[image error]The Carter FamilyCredit: Courtesy Dust-to-Digital
The Harry Smith B-Sides will be released as a four-CD box set.
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Listen: [image error] (album preview)
[image error]Harry Smith, 1968.Credit: Courtesy John Cohen Archives
In 1952, Folkways Records published the legendary six-LP series entitled the Anthology of American Folk Music, compiled by eccentric record collector, filmmaker, artist, and anthropologist Harry Smith. Many historians cite Smith’s reissue, with its recordings of country, blues, 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. 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 record selected by Smith for the original Anthology of American Folk Music.
Essays by John Cohen, Lance Ledbetter, and Eli Smith.
Transcriptions and annotations for each track 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, and Peter Stampfel.
•Newly-remastered audio under license from Gennett Records, Paramount Records, Sony Music Entertainment, and Universal Music Group. This four-CD box set represents a mirror image of the Anthology of American Folk Music’s tracklist. However, 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. Full tracklist below.
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[image error]Andrew and Jim BaxterCredit: Courtesy Dust-to-Digital
[image error]The Carter FamilyCredit: Courtesy Dust-to-Digital
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