Reviews
Ranked #1 on Spin's List of "Top 10 Reissues.", Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's.", "...this definitive collection of blues, country, and gospel recordings inspired the American folk revival after its release in 1952. Now painstakingly remixed and remastered...ANTHOLOGY retains the primitive power of those seminal 78s while meeting the more exacting audio standards of the digital age." - Rating: A, "...an exhaustively annotated six-CD set that has no competition as reissue of the year....between strength of material and force of vision, Harry Smith did nothing less than create a canon. At a time when folk music included Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie,...and the Lomax corpus, Harry Smith convinced the world that there was something far weirder and more exciting...", 5 Stars (out of 5) - "...it is impossible to overstate the historic worth, sociocultural impact and undiminished vitality of the music in this set, and of Smith's idiosyncratic scholarship and instinctive wisdom....a bedrock of our national musical identity..."
Vocals
Arnold Williamson, Didier Hébert, Buell Kazee, Ben Ramey, Gus Cannon, Sally Sumler, Preston Young, Coley Jones, Dock Boggs, Cleoma Breaux Falcon, Bascom LaMar Lunsford, Garley Foster, Rev. D.C. Rice, Chubby Parker, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Julius Daniels, Versey Smith, James Touchstone, Uncle Dave Macon, Uncle Eck Dunford, Mississippi John Hurt, Kelly Harrell, Sara Carter, Jim Jackson, Clarence Nelson, The Elders Mcintorsh & Edwards' Sanctified Singers, Richard Burnett, Charlie Poole, A.P. Carter, Clifford Breaux, Clarence Ashley, Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, Dick Justice, Angeline Johnson, Ramblin' Thomas, Bessie Johnson, Furry Lewis, Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, Yank Rachell, Ken Maynard, Will Shade, Bill Reed, Ashley Thompson, Ophy Breaux, G.B. Grayson, Tewee Blackman, J.P. Nestor, Ernest Phipps, Henry Thomas
Guitar
Didier Hébert, Will Weldon, Clarence Ashley, Clifford Breaux, Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, Dick Justice, Furry Lewis, Preston Young, Ken Maynard, Coley Jones, Cleoma Breaux Falcon, Garley Foster, Will Shade, Bill Reed, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Julius Daniels, Roy Harvey, Ashley Thompson, Joseph Alfred Stegall, Sleepy John Estes, James Touchstone, Tewee Blackman, Elijah Avery, Mississippi John Hurt, Charlie Burse, Jim Jackson, Sam Mcgee, Henry Thomas
