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★★★★★ The Harry Smith B-Sides DUST-TO-DIGITAL. CD All the flipsides for the 78s assembled on Anthology Of American Folk Music. Harry Smith’s 1952 Anthology

Of American Folk Music was the ur-text for the folk revival, and to this day entrances musicians like Jack White and Jeff Tweedy. Now the meticulous enthusiasts at Dust-To-Digital present – gorgeously, as always – the B-sides of the cuts Smith culled from blues, country, and gospel originally waxed between 1926 and 1933. Alongside work by such beloved names as The Carter Family, Charley Patton, Dock Boggs, Mississippi John Hurt sit intriguing headscratchers like William & Versey Smith’s Everybody Help The Boys Come Home: why were they cutting WWI propaganda nearly a decade after its end? Why does it sound like such a party? But the music speaks to us – maybe especially in 2020. Tell Spotify you want a multigenre playlist by folks who quite obviously have been through some shit, and you’d plausibly get the Anthology and these B-Sides.