Track Listing

1. Booth Shot Lincoln/I'll Learn You How to Rock Andy
2. Three Forks of Hell/Arkansas Traveler/Pop Goes the Weasel
3. Camp Chase - Jim Taylor, Traditional
4. The Rebel Raid/Abe' Retreat
5. They Swung John Brown to a Sour Apple Tree
6. Dixie/Come Dance and Sing - Jim Taylor, Emmett, Daniel
7. McClanahan's March
8. St. Patrick's Day in the Morning/Garry Owen/Haste to the Wedding
9. Stony Point
10. The Falls of Richmond
11. There Is a Fountain
12. Little Rose Is Gone/Billy in the Lowground - Jim Taylor, Carpenter, Harmon
13. Bragg's Retreat/Leather Britches
14. Last of Sizemore
15. Money Musk 1/Money Musk 2 - Jim Taylor, Dow, Danile
16. Natchez Under the Hill 1 & 2/Turkey in the Straw
17. Hell Broke Loose in Georgia
18. John Brown's March/John Brown's Dream
19. Republican Spirit/Mississippi Sawyer
20. Quince Dillon's High D/Richmond Blues - Jim Taylor, Dillion, Quincey
21. Seneca Square Dance
22. Boneparte's Retreat/Boneparte's Charge/Boneparte's March

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82864 in Music
• Released on: 2001-09-11
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
A superb quartet featuring Jim Taylor and friends on hammered dulcimer, fiddle, banjo and guitar, playing music for square dances, hoe-downs, and minstrel shows; for sitting around the campfire or socializing in the parlor ... With fascinating liner notes telling the story of each tune, this album offers 70+ minutes of music (including Gary Owen, Haste to the Wedding, Arkansas Traveler, Seneca Square Dance, Booth Shot Lincoln) -- a rare treat for lovers of string band music and a treasure trove for students of the War Between the States. The Civil War Collection is a co-production of Gourd Music and Pearl Mae Music.

Dirty Linen
...to be heard over a dance crowd... intrinsic to the music of the day... [played] with style and enthusiasm.

About the Artist
I was born and raised in western North Carolina and have lived here most of my life. My older sisters both played piano, so I grew up playing the thing by ear in the lulls between their practices.

Both sides of the family are musical. Mom's parents had a their own ragtime band that played all over the region. Her father was also a singing master in the Shape-note tradition. On Dad's side, his mother had a degree in music from Columbia College, South Carolina. My father has a fine baritone voice, as did his father.

I first became interested in traditional music in the early 1980s when a friend let me borrow some Jean Ritchie albums and mountain dulcimer recordings. Soon afterward, I heard the hammered dulcimer and decided to learn to play it. I put together a kit and started learning tunes. I was in school in Texas at the time and had the opportunity to learn from folks like Russell Cook and Dana Hamilton. Others who influenced my style were Jerry Reed Smith and Malcolm Dalglish.

By 1982 I started building my own hammered dulcimers and selling them. That's how I made my living for the next eight or so years. In 1989 I recorded my first album, Come Before Winter. I followed that with The Falls of Richmond in '91, Little Rose is Gone in '92 and The Bright Sunny South in '94.

I haven't performed for audiences much in the past (I prefer to do recordings instead), but I'm starting to get out a bit more lately. My wife, Sheila Adams (she plays banjo on the recordings), is a nationally known traditional ballad singer, storyteller, banjo player, and author. Sheila has me play dulcimer/banjo duets with her during some of her concerts.

Apart from the music, I'm closing in on a master's degree in American History, reenacting the Civil War every month or so, trying to figure out how to raise two teenage boys, and learning how to play Rugby.

Customer Reviews

Lively fun and historic collection
The Civil war collection, is a great instramental cd.Jim Taylor gets amazing sometimes elequent sounds from his Dulcimer. Shelia Adams has a good Banjo solo on John Browns march and is steady throughout. Pat Sky is great on the Irish pipes on Theres a fountain the most somber song. Bruce Greene is one of the best fiddlers ive heard Turkey in the straw,, Moneymusk, John Browns Dream and most other songs have outstanding fiddle. These songs are lively and none are weak or sappy.

The best sounds I have ever heard
This music style is great. Unfortunately this music style ( and others) are very rare in Berlin, Germany. Is there more music from Jim Taylor?
I shall buy them.....

Enjoyed this very much
I jam in the mountains with a group that plays both Irish music and what they call "old time music." This collection falls into both categories.