Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-) Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)

Both booklets. Minor spotting discoloration to cloth box in one corner of front and some on top, picture label on cloth still looks great.  

Notes:

Comes in a 12x12x0.75" box as 3 double CDs, to imitate the original vinyl release of 3 double LPs, with a copy of the original "Handbook" written by Harry Smith and a "Booklet of Essays, Appreciations and Annotations Pertaining to the Anthology Of American Folk Music" which contains information on the artists, the origins of the songs, their discographies and other versions of the songs.

The Enhanced CD includes interviews with some of the artists or their relatives, videos and pictures of Harry Smith's various other collections.  It also includes a video of Harry Smith receiving a Grammy award.

Track positions are from 1 to 84 on the release.

Original "Folkways Records" catalog numbers as they appear on the releases:
Catalog number on "Volume One: Ballads" is FP 251.
Catalog number on "Volume Two: Social Music" is FP 252.
Catalog number on "Volume Three: Songs" is FP 253.

. Volume One: The Ballads 1-1. Dick Justice - Henry Lee 3:28 1-2. Nelstone's Hawaiians - Fatal Flower Garden 2:58 1-3. Clarence Ashley - The House Carpenter 3:16 1-4. Coley Jones - Drunkard's Special 3:16 1-5. Bill And Belle Reed - Old Lady And The Devil 3:05 1-6. Buell Kazee - The Butcher's Boy 3:05 1-7. Buell Kazee - The Wagoner's Lad 3:05 1-8. Chubby Parker - King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O 3:09 1-9. Uncle Eck Dunford - Old Shoes And Leggins 3:01 1-10. Richard Burnett, Leonard Rutherford - Willie Moore 3:16 1-11. Buster Carter, Preston Young - A Lazy Farmer Boy 3:00 1-12. The Carolina Tar Heels - Peg And Awl 2:59 1-13. G.B. Grayson - Ommie Wise 3:12 1-14. Kelly Harrell, The Virginia String Band - My Name Is John Johanna 3:13 2-15. Edward L. Crain - Bandit Cole Younger 2:57 2-16. Kelly Harrell, The Virginia String Band - Charles Giteau 3:05 2-17. The Carter Family - John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man 2:57 2-18. The Williamson Brothers, Curry (2) - Gonna Die With My Hammer In My Hand 3:26 2-19. Frank Hutchison - Stackalee 3:01 2-20. Charlie Poole And The North Carolina Ramblers - White House Blues 3:31 2-21. Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie 3:28 2-22. William And Versey Smith - When That Great Ship Went Down 2:58 2-23. The Carter Family - Engine 143 3:19 2-24. Furry Lewis - Kassie Jones 6:16 2-25. The Bently Boys - Down On Penny's Farm 2:50 2-26. The Masked Marvel - Mississippi Boweavil Blues 3:09 2-27. The Carolina Tar Heels - Got The Farm Land Blues 3:17 . Volume Two: Social Music 3-28. Uncle Bunt Stephens - Sail Away Lady 2:58 3-29. Jilson Setters - The Wild Wagoner 3:17 3-30. Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers - Wake Up Jacob 2:55 3-31. Delma Lachney, Blind Uncle Gaspard - La Danseuse 2:56 3-32. Andrew & Jim Baxter - Georgia Stomp 2:47 3-33. Eck Robertson And Family - Brilliance Medley 3:01 3-34. Hoyt "Floyd" Ming And His Pep-Steppers - Indian War Whoop 3:13 3-35. Henry Thomas - Old Country Stomp 2:55 3-36. Jim Jackson (2) - Old Dog Blue 3:04 3-37. Columbus Fruge - Saut Crapaud 2:49 3-38. Joseph Falcon - Acadian One-Step 3:00 3-39. Breaux Frères - Home Sweet Home 3:00 3-40. Cincinnati Jug Band - Newport Blues 2:58 3-41. Frank Cloutier, The Victoria Cafe Orchestra - Moonshiner's Dance Part One 2:40 4-42. Rev. J. M. Gates - You Must Be Born Again 1:31 4-43. Rev. J. M. Gates - Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting 1:29 4-44. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Rocky Road 2:44 4-45. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Present Joys 2:53 4-46. Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1 - This Song Of Love 2:58 4-47. Rev. Sister Mary Nelson - Judgement 2:25 4-48. Memphis Sanctified Singers - He Got Better Things For You 2:54 4-49. Elders McIntorsh And Edwards' Sanctified Singers - Since I Laid My Burden Down 3:19 4-50. Moses Mason - John The Baptist 3:05 4-51. Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Dry Bones 3:00 4-52. Blind Willie Johnson - John The Revelator 3:21 4-53. The Carter Family - Little Moses 3:14 4-54. Ernest Phipps And His Holiness Singers - Shine On Me 3:03 4-55. Rev. F.W. McGee - Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room 2:43 4-56. Rev. D.C. Rice And His Sanctified Congregation - In The Battlefield For My Lord 3:20 . Volume Three: Songs 5-57. Clarence Ashley - The Coo Coo Bird 2:56 5-58. Buell Kazee - East Virginia 3:01 5-59. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Minglewood Blues 3:44 5-60. Didier Herbert - I Woke Up One Morning In May 3:04 5-61. Richard "Rabbit" Brown - James Alley Blues 3:07 5-62. Dock Boggs - Sugar Baby 2:58 5-63. Bascom Lamar Lunsford - I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground 3:21 5-64. Ernest And Hattie Stoneman - Mountaineer's Courtship 2:44 5-65. The Stoneman Family - The Spanish Merchant's Daughter 3:18 5-66. Memphis Jug Band - Bob Lee Junior Blues 3:11 5-67. The Carter Family - Single Girl, Married Girl 2:47 5-68. Cleoma Breaux, Joseph Falcon - La Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme 3:10 5-69. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Rabbit Foot Blues 2:57 5-70. Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachell - Expressman Blues 3:01 6-71. Ramblin' Thomas - Poor Boy Blues 2:24 6-72. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Feather Bed 3:16 6-73. Dock Boggs - Country Blues 2:59 6-74. Julius Daniels - 99 Year Blues 3:07 6-75. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Prison Cell Blues 2:47 6-76. Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean 2:55 6-77. Cleoma Breaux, Ophy Breaux, Joseph Falcon - C'Est Si Triste Sans Lui 3:01 6-78. Uncle Dave Macon - Way Down The Old Plank Road 3:01 6-79. Uncle Dave Macon - Buddy Won't You Roll Down The Line 3:15 6-80. Mississippi John Hurt - Spike Driver Blues 3:17 6-81. Memphis Jug Band - K.C. Moan 2:33 6-82. J.P. Nestor - Train On The Island 3:00 6-83. Ken Maynard - The Lone Star Trail 3:15 6-84. Henry Thomas - Fishing Blues 2:45

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