[luvie]

Music for our Troops, Veterans,
and their families!!

Paul Simon~Loves Me Like A Rock

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[Publius]

You’ll need the tissues for Thomas Hampson’s version of “Hard Times”. The video will leave you shaken. Just a friendly warning.

[Publius]

By 1860, the 34 year old Stephen Foster found himself forced to return to the plantation song just as Northerners were getting tired of hearing anything about the South. Regional tensions were at the boiling point. Foster wrote one of his most famous songs, a hymn that praises the spirit of the laborer at the end of his life and is based on the black church tradition of the “spiritual”. It’s achingly beautiful, even if it fell out of favor during the Sixties.

Foster: “Old Black Joe”

A plantation tune about a paddle wheeler.

”The Glendy Burk”

Written in 1851, this wasn’t finally published until 1860. The death of children was an everyday occurrence in an era when it was a struggle for any child to make it past its ninth birthday. This is a song of grieving, yet done in a major key.

”Virginia Belle”