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Thread #103890 Message #2141296
Posted By: Joe Offer
05-Sep-07 - 05:35 AM
Thread Name: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
Subject: Index: Anthology of American Folk Music (songbook)
Thanks to a link from the infamous Abby Sale, I posted the Anthology Index - in this thread (click)
Anthology of American Folk Music
edited by Josh Dunson and Ethel Raim, published by Oak Publications in 1973.
Here's the table of contents:
5. Preface
6. Explanation of musical orthography
7. Guitar and banjo figures
8. Who chose these records? (an interview with Frank Walker)
18. the birth and growth of the Anthology of American Folk Music (as told by Moses Asch)
20. What happened to Volume IV?
22. Henry Lee
24. The House Carpenter
26. Old Lady and the Devil
28. The Butcher's Boy
30. The Wagoner's Lad
32. King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O
34. Old Shoes and Leggins
36. Willie Moore
38. A Lazy Farmer Boy
40. Peg and Awl
42. Ommie Wise
44. My Name Is John Johanna
46. Bandit Cole Younger
48. Charles Giteau
50. John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man
52. Gonna Die With a Hammer in My Hand (John Henry)
54. Stackalee
56. White House Blues
58. Frankie
60. When the Great Ship Went Down
62. Engine 143
64. Kassie Jones
66. Down on Penny's Farm
68. Got the Farm Land Blues
70. Since I Laid My Burden Down
72. John the Revelator
74. Little Moses
76. Shine on Me
79. The Coo Coo Bird
80. East Virginia
82. Sugar Baby
84. I wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
87. Single Girl, Married Girl
88. Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme
90. Country Blues
92. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
94. Way Down the Old Plank Road
97. Train on the Island
98. Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line
100.Spike Driver Blues
102.K.C. Moan
104.The Lone Star Trail
106.Fishing Blues
108.Black Jack David
110.Down on the Banks of the Ohio
112.Nine Pound Hammer
114.Hello Stranger
116.No Depression in Heaven
So, this isn't all the tracks in the 6-CD collection, but it's a good number of them. I wish there were a site that provided all the lyrics to all the songs in the anthology, but I haven't found it yet.
If you want a scanned copy of the book, the download link is:
http://towerofbabel.com/sections/music/troubadours/anthology/anthology.zip