SOUTHERN SOLDIER: Favorite Camp Songs of the Civil War

SOUTHERN SOLDIER: Favorite Camp Songs of the Civil War

SOUTHERN SOLDIER: Favorite Camp Songs of the Civil War
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Performer: 2nd South Carolina String Band
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-07-04
Music Label: Palmetto Productions
Soundtracks:
  1. Ol' Dan Tucker
  2. McLeod's Reel
  3. Oh! Lud Gals
  4. Boatman's Dance
  5. Fisher's Hornpipe/Rickett's Hornpipe
  6. Zip Coon
  7. Hard Times, Come Again No More
  8. John Brown's March/John Brown's Dream
  9. Oh, I'm A Good Old Rebel
  10. Palmetto Quickstep
  11. Keemo Kimo
  12. Jackson in the Valley
  13. Johnny Booker/Circus Jig/Jim Along Josie
  14. Rock the Cradle, Julie
  15. Jenny, Get Your Hoecake Done
  16. The Arkansas Traveller
  17. Southern Soldier
  18. Dixie's Land

Music reviews of SOUTHERN SOLDIER: Favorite Camp Songs of the Civil War

Music Review: Came for Dan Tucker, stayed for the South.
Rating: 5 Stars

This is an excellent set of performances, and it's clear that they take these songs seriously as well as having a very good technique. I came across this album not looking for Civil War songs, but for Appalachian ones -- specifically for a good rendition of Dan Tucker. Theirs is _slower_ than the Appalachian version (Appalachian dance music proceeds, and is sung, at very quick speeds, and is structurally more like rock than like classical music), but I'm quite confident in saying that this is how it would be performed in the Confederate South.

The same is true of the other songs here, and these are vintage Confederate ones; this is one of the best Civil War reproductions I've heard (at least insofar as I can judge), and I certainly second the other reviewers here, including those saying that their Dan Tucker alone is worth the price of admission.

Description of SOUTHERN SOLDIER: Favorite Camp Songs of the Civil War

SOUTHERN SOLDIER is a collection of songs and melodies which were well known to Southerners and Northerners alike; tunes that were a familiar and comfortable part of life in the years leading up to the War Between the States. Many of these compositions were written by the likes of Stephen Foster and Daniel Emmett, who were giants of the popular music industry of their day.

Some of the titles, OL' DAN TUCKER, DIXIE'S LAND and ARKANSAS TRAVELER are still familiar to the modern-day ear. Other titles on this album, though not familiar to the eye, will be quickly recognizable to the ear. ALL selections on this album are performed on authentic instruments of the period and were chosen for the appealing nature of their rhythms and melodies. They are presented with as unique and individual a spirit as one might expect from a true Confederate camp band of the era.

Over the years since 1989, when the band was formed, we have made a concerted effort to grow in the music and the history of those times. This collection of songs and melodies that the soldiers brought with them from home to the war represents the fruit of that growth. It was and continues to be our intent as a group of musicians and living historians to try to capture the spirit and emotion of those tumultuous years. We believe that this album, SOUTHERN SOLDIER, has succeeded in that effort.

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