Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music: Volume 4

Wire (1/01, p.34) - Included in Wire's "50 Records Of The Year" [2000].
Rolling Stone (8/31/00, pp.69-73) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Lavish....Smith was a master of the segue...[and] had a prophet's ear..."
Q Magazine (9/00, p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...This final volume is based on his 'content analysis' of the post-1932 Depression period....all the songs are just plain bizarre and have recurring or interwoven themes....it's the CD gift of the season for those in the know."
No Depression (5-6/00, pp.100-1) - "...Smith's careful construction compels the listener to experience the album as a whole....this formidable work...is likely to be remembered as one of 2000's finest archival recordings."
Entertainment Weekly (5/26/00, p.75) - "...Depression-era and reflects the old folkways' collapse. From Robert Johnson to the Carter Family to a pre-bluegrass Bill Monroe - Smith's ear for greatness was uncanny." - Rating: A
CMJ (6/12/00, p.25) - "...Features 28 long-lost ballads and social music recorded between 1928 and 1940....sequenced as Smith originally intended..."
Wire (5/00, p.58) - "...Decades of crackle and fuzz have become inextricable parts of these songs, ghost channels that seem to calling directly over time, a little ruptured window onto another world. We can literally hear the sound of a world slowly retreating into the murk of history..."
Mojo (8/00, p.94) - "...More lives have been touched by the music in these volumes than almost any other source. Dig in and dig it."