Title: Ballads of the Civil War Artist: Hermes Nye Label: Folkways Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 093070500426 Genre: Country, Folk Release Date: 2012-05-30 Number of Discs: 1
Old favorites "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" and "Goober Peas" enjoy Texan attorney-turned-balladeer Hermes Nye's unselfconscious treatment on this balanced compilation of some of the American Civil War's best-known songs. Folkways founder Moses Asch's liner notes, which include newspaper clippings from the 1860s, provide illuminating historical background.
Tracks: 1.1 Abolitionist Hymn 1.2 Davy Crockett 1.3 Santa Anna 1.4 Battle Hymn of the Republic 1.5 Lincoln and Liberty 1.6 The Bonnie Blue Flag 1.7 Lorena 1.8 When This Cruel War Is Over 1.9 Farewell, Mother 1.10 There Was An Old Soldier 1.11 General Patterson 1.12 The Cumberland's Crew 1.13 Cumberland Gap 1.14 When Johnny Comes Marching Home 1.15 In Charleston Jail 1.16 All Quiet Along the Potomac 1.17 Longstreet's Rangers 1.18 Goober Peas 1.19 Roll, Alabama, Roll 1.20 Abe Lincoln 1.21 Old Rebel
