McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube

Subject: McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube
From: JedMarum
Date: 08 May 08 - 12:44 AM

At the request of some Civil War music friends, I have created and posted a Youtube video of Chickahominy River at Youtube. This is one of my very favorite tracks. I hope you don't mind me sharing it with my Mudcat friends this way. The song is from MILES FROM HOME, released in late 2004.

Eve Goldberg sings the harmony vocal, smooth as honey. Brian McNeill plays beautiful fiddle and concertina parts. And Paul Mills produced a very simple and beautiful sounding track from a fairly complex set of recordings. It was a real treat to work with such folks - and I hope to do so again.

The film is a simple slide show of photos, new and old - a few from recent shows with various music friends.

Subject: RE: McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube
From: Amos
Date: 08 May 08 - 03:00 AM

Damn, Jed...I came out of YouTube about an hour later with my ears still ringing with all your most excellent tunes.

Thanks for the show!!!


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Subject: RE: McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube
From: JedMarum
Date: 08 May 08 - 11:07 AM

Thanks Amos. You say the nicest things!

Subject: RE: McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 May 08 - 11:23 AM

You make a lot of smart moves, little brother, but working with Paul, and having Eve do that harmony, rank as the top of the heap. I love that song.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube
From: Jeri
Date: 08 May 08 - 11:47 AM

Jed, I gotta say this: I wish you'd left the photos up there 3 or 4 times longer and repeated them fewer time.

You I love that song, and the pictures looked like they might be interesting. I also had a look at some other videos, and I must say I loved seeing your dog video as well. Now I'm cruising through the whole whippet aisle at YouTube...

Subject: RE: McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube
From: open mike
Date: 08 May 08 - 01:54 PM

Wonderful! gotta love that Curly Boy Stubbs...
I watched Sweet Wyoming Home, too!

Yesterday, I heard your music on the radio in Chico CA!
You do get around...thanks!

Subject: RE: McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube
From: John Hardly
Date: 08 May 08 - 08:57 PM

That's seriously nice music.

Subject: RE: McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 08 May 08 - 09:57 PM

Sweet.

Subject: RE: McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube
From: JedMarum
Date: 08 May 08 - 11:25 PM

Thanks ya'll.

I agree, Jeri - the pics flip by too quickly sometimes. I noticed it too late to change.

I look forward to working again with Paul very soon.

Subject: RE: McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube
From: Uncle Phil
Date: 09 May 08 - 08:46 AM

That is a fine, haunting track; really gets in your head the more you listen to it. Jed, how did you first discover the Kate Cummings poem?
- Phil

Subject: RE: McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube
From: JedMarum
Date: 09 May 08 - 09:26 AM

I came across Kate's diary, an edited memoir she published very shortly after the war. In her book she included a poem that she claimed was written by her mother, shortly after the Battle of Seven Pines, (I believe that was the battle). Both Kate and her mother were Scottish immigrants, but strong Confederates (even though neither supported slavery).

Kate was a marvelous intellect; eloquent, occasionally humorous and deeply religious. Thankfully she left us her most personal thoughts on the war and her experience as a battle-front, hospital nurse in her book, Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse.

Subject: RE: McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube
From: Uncle Phil
Date: 09 May 08 - 07:00 PM

Thanks. Kate's name seemed to ring a bell when I saw it on YouTube.

I'm an Ole Miss alum (to the eternal embarrassment of my family in Baton Rouge). Ole Miss was a confederate hospital during the late unpleasantness and probably housed some of Kate's patients at some point in 1862. An internet biography mentions her working in nearby Corinth and Okolona.

There is a confederate cemetery in a quiet corner of campus, a mass grave really, surrounded by a low wall. The cemetery probably hosts some of Kate's patients, too. "For our sons we have left here in trust to your keeping..." On nice days Michelle would take our toddler daughter to the cemetery to play. Michelle would sit in the entrance and study, and the wall kept daughter from wandering off. I always imagined that the soldiers enjoyed watching a kid play.
- Phil

Subject: RE: McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube
From: JedMarum
Date: 10 May 08 - 10:57 AM

I believe you're correct; the soldiers probably did enjoy watching a kid play.

Kate's journal is a gem. It sheds real insight into the mindset and experience of worthwhile, bright and even admirable young woman of the day. Kate is one of my heroes.

Subject: RE: McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube
From: gnu
Date: 11 May 08 - 04:23 AM

Wow!

Subject: RE: McNeill, Mills, Goldberg &Marum -Youtube
From: bfdk
Date: 11 May 08 - 05:27 AM

This one's always been a firm favourite of mine, ever since I heard it the first time.
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