Free song download - Shenandoah

Subject: Free song download - Shenandoah
From: Dave Ruch
Date: 29 Sep 11 - 01:40 PM

Here's a free song download from The Canal Street String Band's new CD. The link expires next Tuesday, October 4.

Hope you enjoy, and feel free to pass this along!

Subject: RE: Free song download - Shenandoah
From: GUEST,guest mike
Date: 29 Sep 11 - 05:22 PM

very good, thanks for the mp3, who plays what!

Subject: RE: Free song download - Shenandoah
From: Crowhugger
Date: 29 Sep 11 - 06:55 PM

Thank you very much,Dave!

This will go beautifully on a "calm frayed traffic nerves" CD for the car. I can tell that it'll soothe the savage beast within, make me want to let everyone merge ahead of me (even the rude, sleazy buggers who zig-zag into the smallest space I leave in front for safety's sake) instead of filling that space myself when one of those jerks starts posturing to cut me off. BTW if you haven't driven Hwy. 401 across the top of Toronto at rush hour, you only think you know what I mean.
8-)

Somewhere I read that the name Shenandoah means daughter of the stars--what a nice place to be mentally instead of that traffic jam.

Subject: RE: Free song download - Shenandoah
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 29 Sep 11 - 07:16 PM

I am listening to it now; so lovely ~ thank you.

Subject: RE: Free song download - Shenandoah
From: Dave Ruch
Date: 29 Sep 11 - 07:38 PM

Thanks everybody. I'm playing guitar, Phil Banaszak plays fiddle and Jim Whitford plays dobro. The group is based in Buffalo NY in the USA.

Canal Street String Band website

Facebook page (including notes on the song)

YouTube video - meet the band

Subject: RE: Free song download - Shenandoah
From: Crowhugger
Date: 29 Sep 11 - 09:10 PM

Is there a particular canal to which the band name refers? The Erie of course seems obvious but there are a few smaller ones too right in Buffalo, not to mention a few tributary canals to the Erie, so I thought I'd ask.

Subject: RE: Free song download - Shenandoah
From: Dave Ruch
Date: 30 Sep 11 - 07:53 AM

Crowhugger, the band was named after Canal Street in Buffalo, the former entertainment district where the Erie Canal met the Great Lakes. Canal Street was known by the sailors (some of whom had been around the world on seagoing vessels) in its day as "the wickedest street in the world" - a place "where vice unbridled ran its course."

Canal Street is long gone, but our first gigs were down at the Buffalo Waterfront within sight of its former location. Among many other things, we do some Erie Canal songs and also a piece from the C&O Canal in Washington ("Otho's Song", which can be heard on the website listed above).

Subject: RE: Free song download - Shenandoah
From: GUEST,cookieless Dave
Date: 02 Oct 11 - 03:17 PM

Two more days until the download link expires.