Anthology of American Folk Music [Box]

Pros: Classic collection of great recordings

Cons: None-the price is right for a good cause

Review: Harry Smith was a man who looked for patterns in everything. Music was one of his many interests, and he appears to have viewed his collection of hundreds (or thousands) of 78 rpm recordings as a jigsaw puzzle of sorts. Smith had a knack for arranging...

Pros: arguably the most influential collection of folk/blues/country music -- ever.

Cons: plenty of cons and ex cons drift around these parts...

Review: A borderline bootleg cobbled together by itinerant field recorder/mystic/resident shaman-genius music professor Harry Smith, the original 6-lp release of The Anthology of American Folk Music in 1952 was quickly followed by its lionization among such...