Get the book "Invisible Republic" by music critic Griel Marcus about Bob Dylan and the "Basement Tapes". It will dial you in to the significance of Smith's "Anthology of American Folk Music" relieased in 1950. And its "infamous" nature.
I'll look that one up. I do know that Harry Smith was a polymath genius at all sorts of things, but a manipulative guy who sponged off of everyone he could. Still, his rescuing of America's "old,weird" popular culture has us all in his debt. I have been listening to AAFM (sporadically) for 50 years.
If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I ...
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