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Thread #8916   Message #173600
Posted By: Rex
04-Feb-00 - 02:05 PM
Thread Name: Songs of the American Civil War
Subject: RE: Songs of the American Civil War
Yep, folks mentioned Para, Barton and Dyer, David Kincaid, the 97th, all good at playing the songs from "the sixties". Another I'll mention though not recorded yet so far as I know is the 4th Artillary Band. They are centered in Denver and play around the Rocky Mtn. area. Their time period is post CW but they play many of the tunes from that time. They look right and play brass instruments from the time. The trumpets that point behind the player for example. There is no one like them. Someone mentioned above the soundtrack for Burns'CW but I didn't see the CD from his followup PBS program. Anyway as the first soundtrack was instrumental the second is all (well mostly) songs and ballads. Titled: Songs of the Civil War. Columbia/Sony Records released it in 1991. All the favourites sung by the likes of the McGarrigles, Kathy Mattea, Ronnie Gilbert, John Hartford (my man!), Ritchie Havens, Judy Collins, Waylon Jennings, well you get the idea. Hopefully it's still available.

Rex