"Originally released in 1952 as a quasi-legal set of three double-LPs and reissued several times since (with varying cover art), The Anthology of American Folk Music could well be the most influential document of the '50s folk revival. Many of the recordings which appeared on it had languished in obscurity for 20 years, and it proved a revelation to a new group of folkies - from Pete Seeger to John Fahey to Bob Dylan - who covered the songs, tracked down the artists, and made new field recordings to document other strands of folk music." - All Music Guide

Track Listing
The Coo Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley
East Virginia - Buell Kazee
Minglewood Blues - Cannon’s Jug Stompers
I Woke Up One Morning In May - Didier Hebert
James Alley Blues - Richard “Rabbit” Brown
Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs
I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Mountaineer’s Courtship - Ernest And Hattie Stoneman
The Spanish Merchant’s Daughter - The Stoneman Family
Bob Lee Junior Blues - The Memphis Jug Band
Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family
Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme - Cleoma Breaux And Joseph Falcon
Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
Expressman Blues - Sleepy John Estes And Yank Rachell
Poor Boy Blues - Ramblin’ Thomas
Feather Bed - Cannon’s Jug Stompers
Country Blues - Dock Boggs
99 Year Blues - Julius Daniels
Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
C’est Si Triste Sans Lui - Cleoma And Ophy Breaux And Joseph Falcon
Way Down The Old Plank Road - Uncle Dave Macon
Buddy Won’t You Roll Down The Line - Uncle Dave Macon
Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
K.C. Moan - The Memphis Jug Band
Train On The Island - J.P. Nestor
The Lone Star Trail - Ken Maynard
Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas