Anthology of American Folk Music (Songbook)

Subject: ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC
From:
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 05:36 PM

dOES THIS ANTHOLOGY HAVE A SONGBOOK SOMEWHERE WITH CHORDS AND LYRICS TO ALL SONGS ON THE ALBUM..I CAN'T SEEM TO FIND ONE..THANKS IN ADVANCE STEVE

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Subject: RE: ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC
From: lamarca
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 05:50 PM

Well, the Smithsonian doesn't have anything like that listed on their site about the collection here, but the site does have the complete liner notes on-line, listing other recorded versions for each song...

Subject: RE: ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 05:50 PM

Steve,

The Anthology does have words as I recall (altho' I question their transcriptions at times). Never heard of a songbook to go with it.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC
From: Stewie
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 07:24 PM

The anthology doesn't have words, only Smith's newspaper headline-type summaries of each song.

Subject: RE: ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 02 Nov 99 - 08:29 PM

One of my students does indeed have an "Oak" publication with words and music to at least some of the songs on the anthology. I'll try to find it.

Subject: RE: ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC
From:
Date: 03 Nov 99 - 01:34 AM

I have an Oak Publication book called "Anthology of American Folk Music". It is pretty old (1973)--it predates the Smithsonian reproductions. It doesn't have all of the songs in the set; but it has lyrics, standard notation of the melody, guitar/banjo chord notation, banjo tuning used, and the strumming patterns used when applicable. Interesting enough, it has some songs that were supposed to appear in Vol IV, which never came out.

Murray