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Anthology of American Folk Music is a Blues act. Their influence carried into Pete Seeger, John Fahey, Bob Dylan, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Mississippi John Hurt, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 15 connections around Anthology of American Folk Music and forward to Pete Seeger. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Anthology of American Folk Music is a three-volume compilation album released in August 1952 by Folkways Records. It was compiled by American polymath Harry Smith from his own collection of 78 rpm records. It consists of eighty-four recordings of American folk, blues and country music made and issued from 1926 to 1933 by a variety of performers, divided into three categories: "ballads", "social music", and "songs".
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Anthology of American Folk Music went on to shape Pete Seeger, John Fahey, Bob Dylan and Blind Lemon Jefferson. 15 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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