"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
Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens
The Wild Wagoner - Jilson Setters
Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt’s Texas Ramblers
La Danseuse - Delma Lachney And Blind Uncle Gaspard
Georgia Stomp - Andrew & Jim Baxter
Brilliancy Medley - Eck Robertson
Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming And His Pep-Steppers
Old Country Stomp - Henry Thomas
Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson
Saut Crapaud - Columbus Fruge
Acadian One-Step - Joseph Falcon
Home Sweet Home - The Breaux Freres
Newport Blues - The Cincinnati Jug Band
Moonshiner's Dance Pt.1 - Frank Cloutier And The Victoria Cafe Orchestra
Must Be Born Again - Rev. J.M. Gates
Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting - Rev. J.M. Gates
Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
Present Joys - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
This Song Of Love - The Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1
Judgement - Sister Mary Nelson
He Got Better Things For You - Memphis Sanctified Singers
Since I Laid My Burden Down - The Elders Mcintorsh & Edwards’ Sanctified Singers
John The Baptist - Rev. Moses Mason
Dry Bones - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
John The Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson
Little Moses - The Carter Family
Shine On Me - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. Mcgee
I’'m In The Battlefield For My Lord - Rev. D.C. Rice & His Sanctified Congregation