| The Library Of Congress Archive Of Folk Culture: Anglo-American Ballads, Volume One |  | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rounder Select
Category: Music
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Format: Original recording remastered
Language: English (Original Language)
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 018964151126
EAN: 0018964151126
ASIN: B00000HZBB
Release Date: February 9, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | The House Carpenter - Mrs. Texas Gladden | | • | The Farmer's Curst Wife - Horton Barker | | • | The Gypsy Davy - Woody Guthrie | | • | Barbara Allen - Rebecca Tarwater | | • | Pretty Polly - E. C. Ball | | • | The Rich Old Farmer - Mrs. Pearl Borusky | | • | The Devil's Nine Questions - Mrs. Texas Gladden | | • | Old Kimball - Mrs. Texas Gladden | | • | One Morning In May - Mrs. Texas Gladden | | • | The Little Brown Bulls - Emery DeNoyer | | • | The Sioux Indians - Alex Moore | | • | The Lady Of Carlisle - Basil May | | • | Pretty Polly (Ballad) - Pete Steele |
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Genre: Folk Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 9-FEB-1999
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With no shortage of murderous lovers, women of sin, and Eden-like downfalls, these are dark dirges masquerading as ditties. First in the Archive of Folk Culture series issued by the Library of Congress in 1942, Anglo-American Ballads publicly premiered field recordings under the direction of Alan Lomax. Gathered primarily in the rural South in the '30s and early '40s, these recordings (like FDR's WPA initiates) documented everyday life. In their current incarnation, the objective has not changed; the recordings are captured with their intentional departure from commercialism intact. While the accompanying booklet details the history within the history, the songs betray the influences of Elizabethan England and all the British Isles, as well as the Appalachian-dwelling Scotch-Irish from whence much distinctly American music comes. Not easy listening, the ballads vary from the melodious warmth of E.C. Ball's "Pretty Polly" to the reedy scratch of Mrs. Texas Gladden. --Paige La Grone
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