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Harry Everett Smith - Artist, musician and shaman. Harry was a living conduit of folk music.  He delivered brilliant and unrecognized works of folk music created in the 1920's and 30's to the musicians of the 50's and 60's.  He was an amazing anthologist who made sure the roots of folk music were not forgotten.  He ran with the beat poets, lived an alternative and brilliant life full of art, movie making and was utterly devoted to teaching others the interconnectness of everything. Harry Smith, American Folk Music, People Inspiration, Weird History, Henry Jones, Movie Making, Blue Song, Chelsea Hotel, Joan Baez

Harry Smith was an artist whose activities and interests put him at the center of the mid twentieth-century American avant-garde. Although best known as a filmmaker and musicologist, he frequently described himself as a painter, and his varied projects called on his skills as an anthropologist, linguist, and translator. He had a lifelong interest in the occult and esoteric fields of knowledge, leading him to speak of his art in alchemical and cosmological terms. Harry Smith was born May 29…

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