House Carpenter: El viaje de una canción a través de los
archivos | The Official Bob Dylan Site   By Tom Tierney,
Director, Sony Music Archives Library  Somewhere in the middle
of the November 1961 recording sessions that produced Bob
Dylan’s first Columbia Records release, the song “House
Carpenter” was retrieved from Bob’s repertoire and set to tape:
it was not ultimately selected for the album’s final tracklist,
but the performance easily equaled if not surpassed that of
other songs put on the record.  Where did the 20-year old find
this ancient ballad? Well, for one, he almost certainly heard it
for the first time on the “Ballads” volume of “The Anthology Of
American Folk Music,” compiled by Harry Smith for Folkways in
1952. The version used there (without permission, incidentally)
was a Columbia Records recording from 1930, by the one-eyed
clawhammer banjo player Clarence “Tom” Ashley.  This card from
the Sony Music Archives documents the release of “House
Carpenter.” The song’s matrix number, W194982, i