Track Listing

1. The Girl I Left Behind Me/Waiting for the Federals
2. Lorena
3. Cumberland Gap
4. Hard Times
5. The Yellow Rose of Texas
6. Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
7. Hard Crackers
8. Marching Through Georgia
9. Hit's of the 60's (Kingdom Coming/Battle Cry of Freedom/Dixie/Battle Hymn of the Republic)
10. The Faded Coat of Blue
11. President Lincoln's Hornpipe
12. Fisher's Hornpipe/Leather Britches/Bill Cheatham
13. Ashokan Farewell

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74424 in Music
• Released on: 1997-06-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

Album Description
This is a live concert at the Civil War Institute by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason. Ungar & Mason are known for their musical contributions to Ken Burns PBS series The Civil War and for Ungar's haunting theme, "Ashokan Farewell," which they performed both for the series and on this CD.

Ken Burns, Florentine Films
Jay Ungar and Molly Mason play music from the heart, which reminds us of the best in all of us.

Joyce Marcel, The Brattleboro Reformer
I could close my eyes and see...people traveling in buggies and...men swinging women in long cotton skirts...

Customer Reviews

Journey back in time, Civil War
As always Jay Ungar & Molly Mason do a splendid job. Their presentations of songs from the Civil War era puts one back to that time; and you can feel the exuberance, sadness, & other myriad of emotions reflected via the songs of that tragic time of our history. We are certainly happy to add it to our collection.

wonderful music!
I love this CD! It has great variety, and the songs all evoke emotions about the pain and heartache of war...a good reminder of why we never want war again...and meaningful for listening.

Sterilized Old Time Music
Jay Ungar's fiddle playing on this CD is excellent and at times breathtaking. He is also an accomplished clawhammer banjo player. Molly Mason backs up his fiddling with fine guitar and piano work. I also enjoyed her vocal solos and harmony. Ungar's singing is reminiscent of the famous Southerner: Barney Fife. The song selection on the CD is very good, though presented in a rather professorial, politically correct tone and has been scrubbed clean of all traces of potentially offensive lyrics. Kingdom Coming (The Year of Jubilo) is introduced as a "stirring melody" as part of an instrumental medley. If you want to hear a nice fiddle fragment of the song, you'll find it on this recording. If you are interested in the terrific imagery, exultation and humor of the freeing of the slaves, embodied in the original lyrics from Henry Clay Work, look elsewhere. The 2nd South Carolina String Band's Hard Road and The Red Clay Ramblers' Stolen Love (not yet available on CD) both contain excellent versions.