Another thing about Smith's anthologies was the music itself (as opposed to the recordings) covered songs of earlier vintage than
the 30's and the Depression Era. Volume 4 tends to have a lot more later vintage songs and begins to touch on things more current to that time period. I would like to see what he had outlined for the other volumes, as Rodgers' music would be more of a piece with what was on Volume 4 than what was on the first three volumes. The collection was limited by what Harry Smith was able to pick up, but he seemed to put his own crazy logic to the sequencing and flow that maybe some more thorough academic collectors might not have handled in the same way. We're not talking about Lomax and his resources here! I guess the middle ground between the two might have been Frederick Ramsey's Jazz anthology on Folkways, where someone with an academic background built a study within the limits of private collections of mostly out of print works on 78's.

Severn