Mudcatter Richard Wright has come up with a terrific new CD, Rough But Honest Miner: Reclaimed Music From British Columbia's 1800s Gold Rush, by Richard Wright & Cathryn Wellner. It has a companion book, Castles in the Air, that tells the sories of the BC gold rush and the songs that came from it.
What's particularly interesting about this CD is that Richard did much of the research for this CD at the Mudcat Cafe and the Digital Tradition. If you search under his name (click), you can see where he's been digging. Here's the ordering information for this CD. One thread that relates directly to this CD is Gold Miners' Songs.
If you like traditional music, you'll like this CD.
-Joe Offer-

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"The Rough But Honest Miner" -- Reclaimed music from BC's goldrush years
Richard Wright & Cathryn Wellner with Ken Hamm & the Wake-Up Jacob Band.
John & Michelle Law, Willie P. Bennett, Donna Konsorado, Caridwen Irvine, Duncan Bell.
Running time over 1 hour, $24.95 [US $17.95]

"Castles in the Air" Music and Stories of the Gold Rush - a companion book to the CD with the stories behind the songs and the complete lyrics. $12.95 [US $9.95] Package price: $32.95 [US $25]
Winter Quarters Press, Box 15 Miocene, Williams Lake, B.C. V2G 2P3
250-296-4432 Fax: 250-296-4429
e-mail cwellner@grassrootsgroup.com

Website: http://goldrushbc.com (click)

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I'll give you a list of the songs, and we'll post lyrics later, if they aren't already in the database.

• Rough But Honest Miner
• Chief Douglas's Daughter
• Up by Barkerville (narr.)
• Do They Miss Me At Home
• There Are Some Women (narr)
• Erin's Green Shore
• Mary Come Home
• The German Lasses
• Dancing Girls of Cariboo
• The Way They Dance (narr.)
• The Seller of Souls
• The Lover's Lament
• The Old Red Shirt (narr.)
• Hard Times Come Again No More
• Yellow Rose of Texas
• Come Back, Faro
• Listen to the Mockingbird
• Voices of the Wind (narr.)
• Days of '49
• Cold Cariboo Farewell & Days of '49 Reprise