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: #92724 in Music
• Released on: 2002-09-15
• Number of discs: 1

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!!