Episode 5

I enjoyed listening to some of their favorite tracks from the Anthology. I thought it was a little weird that all the songs before the Fox Trot, they would just play a little portion of the song, then they played the whole Fox Trot. Anyways, this episode focused a lot on Harry Smith's life again. They think that since Harry Smith had such a common name, people didn't realize that it was the same guy that did all of that stuff. He was a film maker, painter, writer, producer, and a huge collector. Michael Asche said, "he drove himself in ways that you and I would not even consider." That would help show why he was able to accomplish so much in his life. Blind Willie Johnson had a harder scratchy voice to listen to in the song that he sang with his wife. Harry Smith collected string figures and paper airplanes, which he marked the date and the place when he got them.
".. and when these records came out, it was the first time, that these were like the roots and a conduit to a totally new music, and unlike music they heard before and really it broke all rules, it broke the barrier.. could explore this music on their own.. and put them out with their own unique style." said Ronny Sing. She was talking about how roots music is really the 'roots' to music. Future artists would listen to these songs and then learn them and they would change the music to a different unique style even though they originally got it from these songs. Roots music has helped form all types of music in one way or another. That is really cool when you think about it, it shows how creative people can get, because they started by changing the same songs and now there are completely different styles of music.

I thought it was a little annoying that every 10 minutes, she had to introduce the program again and how shwe had to say that this was the fifth episode about the folkways collection... and on to saying her name Cathy (don't know how to spell her last name)..