Track Listing

1. Lynchburg Town/Briggs' Jig
2. Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)
3. O Lemuel
4. 'Twill Never Do To Give It Up So
5. Granny Will Your Dog Bite/Guilderoy
6. Liza Jane/Mississippi Sawyer/Road to Boston
7. I'm Gwine Ober De Mountain
8. De Blue Tail Fly
9. Angelina Baker/Angeline the Baker
10. Cripple Creek/Old Joe Clark/The Girl I Left Behind Me
11. Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel
12. Old Rosin the Beau
13. Glendy Burke
14. The White Cockade/Devil's Dream
15. Down in Alabama
16. The Bonnie Blue Flag

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21981 in Music
• Released on: 2002-09-15
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Five years after the release of their critically acclaimed SOUTHERN SOLDIER album, comes their newest, long awaited sequel; IN HIGH COTTON. Picking up where they left off, the boys are back in fine form and high style with their best work ever.

Here are more minstrel tunes, plantation melodies and military airs that were beloved and familiar to hundreds of thousands of young men from north and south. These songs were as much a part of them as knapsack, bedroll or bible when they left civil life behind to take up arms to fight and die for the causes they believed in during America's great Civil War.

IN HIGH COTTON carries the listener back more than 150 years to hear music that was essentially laying the foundations of American popular music in the years leading up to the War Between the States. You'll hear timeless melodies created by American musical icons Stephen Foster and Daniel Emmett, such as THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME (SWANEE RIVER) and THE BLUE TAIL FLY. Songs about life on the nation's earliest highways of commerce - America's mighty rivers. You'll hear minstrel melodies that were adapted by the soldiers to reflect the experiences of war and by making fun of those hardships in song, made them easier to bear.

The 2nd South Carolina String Band is recognized far and wide for their ability to breathe new life into music muted only by the passage of time and fashion - great music from our nation's turbulent past - making it exciting and enjoyable to the 21st century listener. IN HIGH COTTON is bursting with the same exuberant spirit that this band has always been famous for.

Customer Reviews

Refreshing
The songs are authentic, and although the music is 'archaic' compared
today's tunes, it is set in a tone that brings you back in time to
a historical point which gives one an idea of the consciousness of
that generation.

Awesome
This was my first purchase of a 2nd SC cd, and it did not disappoint. The talent displayed throughout transports you back to the 1860s.

Fascinating Musical Heritage
This cd from 2002 is 2nd South Carolina String Band's most recent. I have listened to "Old Folks at Home" on repeat at least 50 times now, and am listening to it as I write this review. I've yet to tire of it. Clearly this is what's known as "timeless appeal." Somehow these songs still stir us today, despite our constantly changing tastes.

2nd South Carolina String Band lives and breathes the times of the Civil War and the music that accompanied it. Their enthusiasm is inspiring, and their interpretations are authentic and catchy. These songs give us a peek into a part of our history that is too rarely examined. The liner notes are especially helpful in providing background to melodies you may be familiar with, but whose origins are not so well known.

Favorites of mine, besides "Old Folks at Home," are "De Blue Tail Fly" (a truly haunting tune) and "Down in Alabama" (a real sing-along toe-tapper!).

I hope more cd's are to come!!