CD cover to Marching On!








Hardtack & Homespun


Marching On!


Civil Wars Songs and Music
from the
North and South



The CD Marching On! accompanies the entertaining and definitive book Marching On! John Brown's Ghost from the Civil War to Civil Rights, by Robert Allen, available from NNP Publishing.


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Northfield, Vermont 05663









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Contents:

    

  1. Amazing Grace

  2. Blow Ye the Trumpet, Blow

  3. Lincoln and Liberty

  4. Dixie / Bonnie Blue Flag 

  5. John Brown’s Body

  6. E Pluribus Unum

  7. Hardtack, Come Again No More

  8. The Homespun Dress

  9. Lorena

  10. Weeping Sad and Lonely / Scarlett’s Waltz

  11. The Vermont Volunteers

  12. We Wait Beneath the Furnace Blast

  13. Kingdom Coming

  14. Song of a Thousand Years

  15. Battle Hymn of the Republic

  16. The Rebel Soldier

  17. The Blue and the Gray




Performers:

    

  • Robert W. Allen
         piano: 1-4, 7-17; bodhran, 16

  • Bob Small
         vocals: 1-3, 5, 7, 9, 11-12, 14-17; spoons: 7, 13

  • Susan Reid
         vocals: 1-3, 5-8, 10-12, 14-15; violin: 9-10, 13, 16; guitar: 5

  • Claire Manfredonia
         vocals: 12, 14-15; recorder: 1, 3, 10-11, 13, 16-17

  • Priscilla Farnham
         vocals: 1-3, 7-12, 14-15

  • Scott Paulsen
         snare drum: 11












CD cover to Marching On!

The music group Hardtack & Homespun performs a wide variety of music from the Civil War era. They present songs of both the Union and Confederacy, as well as dance music and instrumentals of the period. They specialize in songs of emancipation. Songs arranged for piano, voice, recorder, and violin are performed with energy and appreciation for the historical context of the music.











Recorded at the Roxbury United Church of Christ, Roxbury, Vermont, on February 8 and March 8 and 15, 1998

Musical Direction: Robert W. Allen

Recording Engineer: David Gunn

Editing and Mastering: Dennis Báthory-Kitsz

Design and Artwork: The Transitive Empire








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