Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume Three: Songs

gotta go with Fishing Blues on this one.

It's all I can do; it's all I can say.

all of 'em? "James Alley Blues" here tho.

Honkies on patrol
Folkies on the phone
Won't get drunk no more
Way down the old plank road

^^^ my best guess

Sorry to be obvious, but that banjo on Coo-coo bird slays. Tho Mole in the ground prob. gets my vote.

I'm gonna have to think about this one.

Sentimental favorite "C'est Si Triste Sans Luis" gets my vote.
This set is loaded with winners, though.

How can anyone not think this is the best volume?

Sugar Baby is my pick fwiw.

oh gos, I forgot about

Run and tell aunt sally aunt sally aunt sally
run and tell aunt sally the old grey goose is dead
the one that she's been saving been saving been saving
the one that she's been saving to make her feather bed

the cuckoo, she's a pretty bird, she sings as she flies.

but honestly it's a really hard choice.
i was singing "mole in the ground" to myself all day yesterday.

This is an embarrassment of riches. And of everything else.

I always like talking to people from Virginia. When I call it "East Virginia" their hackles get all up.

It's all about Mole in the Ground or Spike Driver Blues - the latter of which gets my vote.

god damn I have no idea how to vote on this one

such a good collection, but when I got the records at a library discard, each time sugar baby would end, I'd plop the needle back again. So young, but he sounded like he was already dead.

Man oh man, this is a hell of a collection. Epic doesn't even begin to describe it. I'm tempted to go with JP Nestor. But then there's Sugar Baby. And Mole in the ground...and Spike Driver. And fucking James Alley Blues. Where do you even start?

I think I'm gonna have to go with Old Plank Road. But tomorrow it could be any other of the ones mentioned above.

Yeah these are the best disc(s). Hard not vote Boggs right off, but I will re-listen just to confirm. This really should have been six polls not three.

I could go with Mole, Plank Road, Sugar Baby, or Fishing. The one I want to listen to most often is Plank Road. The disk I want to listen to most often, however, is the one with the religious songs -- Dry Bones is probably my favorite song in the whole collection. (That and King-Kong-Kitchee-Kitchee-Kime-Me-Oh.)

I love the Didier Hebert one.

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This is at least 100% excellent but volume 2 still my favourite and the zydeco haters have made a terrible error in their zydeco hating which they will hopefully come to correct in time. Can't believe I missed the volume 1 poll, I would have gone for Kassie Jones. However, this has a lot of great tunes on. Uncle Dave Macon working himself up even more than usual till he blurts out "KILL YOURSELF!" as if possessed by Dionysus is maybe my favourite moment in music pre 1966. "I Woke Up One Morning In May" is fucking unbelievably artful, I don't know how you can get things just the perfect amount of wrong without spoiling it by knowing what you're doing. All the mountain banjo tunes are crooked and excellent and Sugar Baby is probably the greatest one of all? Single Girl, Married Girl one of my favourite Carter Family tunes and See That My Grave Is Kept Clean is my single, favourite, BLJ tune but my vote and heart go out to Henry Ragtime Texas Thomas who I suspect is still singing this song, somewhere.

I ain't loved zydeco for 29 years ain't about to start now

Truthfully my love for the zydeco on volume 2 has not turned into a more substantial love for zydeco in general. But all the french singing on the anthology is excellent and frequently heroically out of tune, and I do admire the costumes I have seen certain cajun people wearing for some festival reason I forget. Really I just wanted to see more appreciation for the totally blissful/slightly rabid uninhibited volume 2, which people seem to overlook in favour of the maybe more familiar(?) sounding 1&3.

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