Anne Lough ~ autoharp, guitar, hammered and mountain dulcimer artist; vocalist, storyteller, folk dance instructor
Slave Songs of the United States
Category: Other Books
Description:
Beautiful, powerful spirituals collected on the Sea Islands of South Carolina in 1862, including historic notes and pictures. Slave Songs of the United States, first published in 1867 by Lucy McKim Garrison, became the first published book of field collected black spirituals. These songs from that collection are presented here in standard musical notation with guitar chords and tastefully arranged for mountain dulcimer by Madeine MacNeil and Ralph Lee Smith in DAD and DAC tunings. Selections include Bound to Go, Good Old Way, Good-Bye Brother, I Can't Stay Behind, I Heard From Heaven Today, Jehovah Hallelujah, Join 'Em, Join the Angel Band, Just Now, Lay This Body Down, Let God's Saints Come In, Lonesome Valley, Many Thousand Go, Michael Row the Boat Ashore, No More Rain to Wet You, Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Had, O Brothers Don't Get Weary, Old Ship of Zion, Poor Rosy, Rock O' My Soul, Roll Jordan Roll, Stars Begin to Fall, There's a Meeting Here Tonight, and We Will March Through the Valley.
Beautiful, powerful spirituals collected on the Sea Islands of South Carolina in 1862, including historic notes and pictures. Slave Songs of the United States, first published in 1867 by Lucy McKim Garrison, became the first published book of field collected black spirituals. These songs from that collection are presented here in standard musical notation with guitar chords and tastefully arranged for mountain dulcimer by Madeine MacNeil and Ralph Lee Smith in DAD and DAC tunings. Selections include Bound to Go, Good Old Way, Good-Bye Brother, I Can't Stay Behind, I Heard From Heaven Today, Jehovah Hallelujah, Join 'Em, Join the Angel Band, Just Now, Lay This Body Down, Let God's Saints Come In, Lonesome Valley, Many Thousand Go, Michael Row the Boat Ashore, No More Rain to Wet You, Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Had, O Brothers Don't Get Weary, Old Ship of Zion, Poor Rosy, Rock O' My Soul, Roll Jordan Roll, Stars Begin to Fall, There's a Meeting Here Tonight, and We Will March Through the Valley.