![]() | The Nature Of America: A Musical Impression
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $2.27 Non-vocal rendition by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Simple yet sweeping. Poignant and picturesque. Classic orchestral presentation. (Could easily place it on a movie soundtrack.)
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![]() | The Wide World Over: A 40 Year Celebration by The Chieftains
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.99 Van Morrison joins the Chieftains and offers his unique folksy voice.
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![]() | My America
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $36.74 Instrumental version featuring tuba and guitar.
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![]() | Chanticleer: A Portrait by American Traditional
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.98 Male a cappella choral ensemble. Memorable traditional version with rich harmonies. Stirring evocation of bittersweet longing. A lump-in-throat, tear-in-eye & remembering heart with every listen.
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![]() | Journey Home
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $8.00 Instrumental featuring harp and flute.
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![]() | Morning Has Broken by C.S. Heath & Jonas James
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $4.33 Piano and acoustic guitar in mellow but not melancholy rendition.
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![]() | Over the Sea to Skye
Buy used from: $4.77 All male Washington Men's Camerata offers this traditional a cappella choral version.
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![]() | Piano Suite by Christopher West
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $10.49 Solo piano. Improvisations weave to and fro of the original recognizable tune. Blends nicely.
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![]() | Reflections by Acker Bilk
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $6.67 Sound of yore with orchestra instrumental.
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![]() | The Very Best of James Galway by James Galway
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.04 Orchestral string ensemble accompany flutist James Galway in somewhat saccharine instrumental rendition.
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![]() | The American Tenors
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $0.34 Tenor voice trio with orchestration.
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![]() | Blue Wheat by Stephen Foster
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.95 A very nice mixed chorus presentation with the Dale Warland Singers. Gentle and simple.
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![]() | Sanctuary by Adagio Trio
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $1.26 Instrumental version with harp, flute and cello. Traditional rendition. Relaxing listening with slight tug of melancholy.
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![]() | Choral Adagios
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $8.75 Traditional vocal interpretation with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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![]() | Freedom: A History of Us by Various Artsits
Buy used from: $0.73 Poetic teaming of Jerry Garcia with David Grisman to offer a gentle folk-fiddle vocal version of this classic.
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![]() | Classic Country
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $5.65 Countryfied instrumental version with harmonica featured.
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![]() | The Three Bells by The Browns
Buy new: $207.49 / Used from: $150.00 Lovely, harmonious folk vocal version by this mixed voice trio.
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![]() | Ballad of America Volume 1: Over a Wide and Fruitful Land
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $2.82 Folk vocal ballad with a voice described as a "human cello".
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![]() | American Acoustic by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel
Buy used from: $3.81 Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel offer a new age-ish, instrumental version with acoustic guitar and oboe. Slightly improvised, although works nicely remaining true to tune.
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![]() | Sentimental Maniac by Geoff Gibbons
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $3.15 Very gentle folk-pop-jazz lite-nearly-new-age vocal rendition.
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![]() | How The West Was Won: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Buy new: $24.98 / Used from: $49.87 Soaring, orchestral with choral presentation. One can nearly burst with the imagined smell of high plains air and view of rolling hills!
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![]() | Homeland: A Prayer for Peace by Bill Douglas
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $6.89 The Ars Nova Singers choral group provide a beautiful rendition with piano, strings. Very gentle and relaxing.
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![]() | The Goldebriars by The Goldebriars
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.74 Folk/pop (with a nod to bubble gum!) by small mixed voice ensemble.
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![]() | Of Those Now Gone by Michael Hanna
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $49.21 Solo piano instrumental with improv.
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![]() | The Brethren of the Long House by Riot
Buy used from: $12.51 Vocal rendition with rock singer restraint.
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![]() | Just for the Record: The Golden Voice
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $3.76 Sopranic opera voice of Marilyn Horne offers an earnest and very lovely traditional ballad rendition with choral accompaniment.
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![]() | Song of America by Charles Naginski
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.37 Well known opera baritone-light vocal.
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![]() | RISING TIDE
Buy used from: $1.58 Unusual instrumental rendition with a bit more lively style featuring electric double harp.
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![]() | Sea Music by Dan Zanes & Festival Five Folk
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.95 Male vocal, folk sound accompanied by 12 string guitar. Fairly traditional version.
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![]() | Man in the Moon by Sleepwalker
Buy used from: $0.67 Very different vocal rendition with a nod to rock and (dare I say...) Goth-lite. Give it a listen.
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![]() | The Melody at Night, With You by Keith Jarrett
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.13 Solo piano with improvisation blending nicely.
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![]() | American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1 by Pete Seeger
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.97 Makes sense Seeger did a version. A cappella folk vocal with a touch of background banjo.
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![]() | Down in the Groove by Bob Dylan
Buy used from: $3.12 Also makes sense Dylan did a version. Different than many other folk renditions on the lists.
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![]() | Fields of Promise by Dave Crossland
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $0.01 Very nice vocal folk rendering with acoustic guitar and violin. Traditional ballad treatment of tune.
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![]() | Good Dog, Happy Man by Bill Frisell
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.89 A very nice, instrumental (guitar) extended piece. Relax and enjoy the lilt and drift of the easy improvisations.
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![]() | WoodSongs by Michael Johnathon
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $12.53 Gentle folk vocal with a nod to bluegrass.
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![]() | Patchwork Quilt by Peggo & Paul
Buy used from: $8.50 Very folksy vocal version featuring female voice. (Hear also similar "Hello Stranger" by Lesley Schatz.)
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![]() | Guitar Tracks by James Alan Shelton
Buy used from: $7.99 Instrumental bluegrass version.
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![]() | Say You Love Me by Vox One
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $36.72 A cappella mixed voice ensemble. (The Grains of Time group has a very stirring a cappella version somewhere out there on an out-of-print compilation.)
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![]() | Definitive New Christy Minstrels by The New Christy Minstrels
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $15.39 Mixed voice ensemble provides folksy ballad version.
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