I know there are many recordings of U.S. civil war music, and we've added ours to the pile.

We did a concert a couple of years ago and had our sound tech (Brent Hall of the Sounding Board in West Hartford, CT) record the whole thing. There were a few rough spots but also a few gems (hey, nobody's perfect!), so I decided to release the whole thing --well, everything that would fit-- as a live recording. This project has been a learning experience, figuring out how to format the graphics so that https://duplication.discmakers.com/mcm/discmakers/index.jsp would accept the CD for duplicating, setting up the CD on http://cdbaby.com/cd/shoregrass, finding the copyright holder on the one song that wasn't trad or public domain, learning about digital distribution, etc.

We recently did a similar (shortened) program of Songs of the Civil War Era at NOMAD and have been encouraged by the reaction.

So here we are live and unedited, as we were one evening in March, 2003, minus all the thunderous applause and scintillating commentary! We covered songs popular during the "War Between the States" as well as a few songs written about the war in later years. There are familiar soldier songs from the period along with sentimental ballads, hymns and popular songs of the past and present, representing both the Union and the Confederacy, 20 songs in all.

Some of you might enjoy our live bluegrass-style interpretations of these great old songs. Check us out at http://cdbaby.com/cd/shoregrass if you're interested.