2nd South Carolina String Band

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Dixie's Land 00:00 Tools
Southern Soldier 05:26 Tools
Oh, I'm a Good Old Rebel 00:00 Tools
Oh! Susanna 00:00 Tools
When Johnny Comes Marching Home 00:00 Tools
Bonnie Blue Flag 00:00 Tools
Ol' Dan Tucker 00:00 Tools
Battle Cry of Freedom 00:00 Tools
Zip Coon 00:00 Tools
McLeod's Reel 00:00 Tools
Jackson in the Valley 00:00 Tools
Hard Times, Come Again No More 00:00 Tools
Jine the Cavalry 00:00 Tools
John Brown's March 00:00 Tools
Boatman's Dance 00:00 Tools
The Arkansas Traveller 00:00 Tools
Oh! Lud Gals 00:00 Tools
Palmetto Quickstep 00:00 Tools
Keemo Kimo 00:00 Tools
John Brown's Dream 00:00 Tools
Camptown Races 00:00 Tools
Cumberland Gap 00:00 Tools
Fisher's Hornpipe/Rickett's Hornpipe 00:00 Tools
Rose of Alabama 00:00 Tools
Kingdom Coming 00:00 Tools
Buffalo Gals 00:00 Tools
Rock the Cradle, Julie 00:00 Tools
Cindy 00:00 Tools
Jenny, Get Your Hoecake Done 00:00 Tools
Invalid Corps 00:00 Tools
Cavalier's Waltz 00:00 Tools
Johnny Booker, Circus Jig, Jim Along Josie 00:00 Tools
Ring de Banjo 00:00 Tools
The Bonnie Blue Flag 00:00 Tools
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground 00:00 Tools
Lorena 00:00 Tools
Old Folks At Home (Swanee River) 00:00 Tools
Goober Peas 00:00 Tools
Richmond is a Hard Road 00:00 Tools
Sweet Betsey From Pike 00:00 Tools
The Vacant Chair 00:00 Tools
Stonewall Jackson's Way/Garryowen 00:00 Tools
Southron's Battle Cry of Freedom 00:00 Tools
Amazing Grace 00:00 Tools
The Yellow Rose of Texas 00:00 Tools
War Song of Dixie 00:00 Tools
Down in Alabama 00:00 Tools
Old Rosin the Beau 00:00 Tools
Nelly Bly 00:00 Tools
O Lemuel 00:00 Tools
Hard Crackers Come Again No More 00:00 Tools
My Old Kentucky Home 00:00 Tools
I'm Gwine Ober de Mountain 00:00 Tools
Hawks and Eagles 00:00 Tools
The Minstrel Boy 00:00 Tools
De Blue Tail Fly 00:00 Tools
Clare de Kitchen 00:00 Tools
Southron's Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! 00:00 Tools
Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel 00:00 Tools
Angelina Baker/Angeline the Baker 00:00 Tools
Glendy Burke 00:00 Tools
The White Cockade/Devil's Dream 00:00 Tools
Jim Along Josie 00:00 Tools
Sweet Evalina 00:00 Tools
Hawks & Eagles 00:00 Tools
Cripple Creek/Old Joe Clarke/The Girl I Left Behind Me 00:00 Tools
Kelton's Reel/waiting for the Federals 00:00 Tools
Listen to the Mockingbird/siege of Vicksburg 00:00 Tools
Liza Jane/Mississippi Sawyer/Road to Boston 00:00 Tools
Ring, Ring de Banjo 00:00 Tools
Granny Will Your Dog Bite/Guilderoy 00:00 Tools
Oh! Lud Gals! 00:00 Tools
Old Joe (feat. Fred Ewers) 00:00 Tools
Ashokan Farewell 00:00 Tools
'Twill Never Do to Give It Up So 00:00 Tools
The Arkansas Traveler 00:00 Tools
Gum Tree Canoe (feat. Dave Goss) 00:00 Tools
Lynchburg Town/Briggs' Jig 00:00 Tools
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again/For Bales 00:00 Tools
The Rose of Alabama 00:00 Tools
Battle of Cedar Creek 00:00 Tools
Dissolution Wagon (feat. Fred Ewers) 00:00 Tools
Oh, Susanna 00:00 Tools
Stonewall Jackson's Way (feat. Mike Paul) 00:00 Tools
Flowers of Edinburg / Welcome Here Again 00:00 Tools
I Goes to Fight Mit Sigel (feat. Mike Paul) 00:00 Tools
Southern Soldier/Dixie 00:00 Tools
The Camptown Ladies 04:13 Tools
College Hornpipe / Rakes of Mallow 00:00 Tools
The Wearing of the Gray (feat. Dave Goss) 00:00 Tools
Darling Nelly Gray (feat. Dave Goss) 00:00 Tools
When Johnny comes marching home again 00:00 Tools
White Cockade / Devil's Dream 00:00 Tools
Company I, 2nd South Caroline 00:00 Tools
Riding a Raid (feat. Mike Paul) 00:00 Tools
Bonnie Blue Flag - American Civil War Music (Confederacy) 00:00 Tools
My Lodgings On the Cold, Cold Ground 00:00 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
Rickett's & Fisher's Hornpipes 00:00 Tools
We're Tenting Tonight On the Old Campground 00:00 Tools
The Boatman's Song 00:00 Tools
German (Heaven's Gate) Waltz 00:00 Tools
Southern Soldier - American Civil War Music (Confederacy) 00:00 Tools
Yellow Rose of Texas / Cindy 00:00 Tools
Listen to the Mockingbird/Sie 00:00 Tools
Old Dog Tray (feat. Dave Goss) 00:00 Tools
Maryland, My Maryland / Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (feat. Dave Goss) 00:00 Tools
Rose of Alabama - American Civil War Music (Confederacy) 00:00 Tools
Kelton's Reel/Waiting For the 00:00 Tools
McLeod's Reel/Zip Coon 00:00 Tools
O Lud Gals! 00:00 Tools
01 Lynchburg Town/Brigg's Jig 00:00 Tools
Spanish Waltz 00:00 Tools
Stonewall Jackson's way / Garryowen 00:00 Tools
Billy in the Lowground 00:00 Tools
04 'Twill Never Do to Give It Up So 00:00 Tools
Granny Will Your Dog Bite / Guilderoy 00:00 Tools
Oh, Susannah 00:00 Tools
Home Sweet Home (feat. Dave Goss) 00:00 Tools
Jine the Calvary 00:00 Tools
John Brown's March / John Brown's Dream 00:00 Tools
De Lady and De Frog 00:00 Tools
Roscoe's Waltz 00:00 Tools
06 Liza Jane+Mississippi Sawyer+Road To Boston 00:00 Tools
Lynchburg Town/Brigg's Jig 00:00 Tools
Band Intro 00:00 Tools
Tombigbee Waltz 00:00 Tools
Lynchburg Town / Briggs' Jig 00:00 Tools
05 Granny Will Your Dog Bite+Guilderoy 00:00 Tools
09 Angelina Baker+Angeline The Baker 00:00 Tools
14 The White Cockade+Devil's Dream 00:00 Tools
Cripple Creek / Old Joe Clarke / Girl I Left Behind Me 00:00 Tools
Soldier's Joy / Angeline the Baker 00:00 Tools
10 Cripple Creek+Old Joe Clarke+The Girl I Left Behind Me 00:00 Tools
Liza Jane / Mississippi Sawyer / Road to Boston 00:00 Tools
Rickett's & Fishar's Hornpipes 00:00 Tools
Circus Jig / Jim Along Josie 00:00 Tools
The Glendy Burke 00:00 Tools
Join the Cavalry 00:00 Tools
Kelton's Reel / Waiting on the Federals 00:00 Tools
Flowers of Edinburgh / Welcome Here Again 00:00 Tools
Dixie's Land (American Civil War Music 1861-1865 - Confederacy Hymn) 00:00 Tools
Patri's [Spanish] Waltz 00:00 Tools
Company I, 2nd South Carolina 00:00 Tools
McLeod's Reel / Zip Coon (Live) 00:00 Tools
German Waltz (Heaven's Gate Waltz) 00:00 Tools
Finish 00:00 Tools
Old Rosin The Beau (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
'Twill Neber Do To Gib It Up So 00:00 Tools
Cripple Creek+Old Joe Clarke+The Girl I Left Behind Me 00:00 Tools
Angelina Baker+Angeline The Baker 00:00 Tools
Granny Will Your Dog Bite+Guilderoy 00:00 Tools
Fisher's Hornpipe / Rickett's Hornpipe 00:00 Tools
Dissolution Wagon 00:00 Tools
Rose Of Alabamy 00:00 Tools
Liza Jane+Mississippi Sawyer+Road To Boston 00:00 Tools
The White Cockade+Devil's Dream 00:00 Tools
Listen To The Mockingbird / Siege of Vicksburg 00:00 Tools
Oh, Susannah! 00:00 Tools
Kelton's reel / Waiting for the federals 00:00 Tools
Dixie 00:00 Tools
Jenny Get Your Hoecake Done 00:00 Tools
Oh, I'm a Good Ol' Rebel 00:00 Tools
Johnny Booker / Circus Jig / Jim Along Josie 00:00 Tools
06 Oh, Susannah 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Was In Dixie 00:00 Tools
Stonewall Jackson's Way/Garryo 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Was In Dixie Land 00:00 Tools
The Southern Soldier 00:00 Tools
Oh Susana 00:00 Tools
Dixies Land 00:00 Tools
Southron's Battle Cry of Freedom (Confederacy) 00:00 Tools
Stonewall Jackson's Way 00:00 Tools
Boatsman's Dance 00:00 Tools
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The purpose of the 2nd South Carolina String Band is to perform Civil War music as authentically as possible. In their albums the listener will hear the music of the 19th century played on 19th century period instruments in the appropriate style. This is the music as it truly sounded to the soldiers of the Civil War. The 2nd South Carolina String Band was formed in August of 1989 by five riflemen of Co.I, 2nd SC Volunteer Infantry, a unit of Civil War reenactors that was very active during the five years of events celebrating the 125th Anniversary of the Civil War - and for many years to follow. After the battles, drills and inspections, the boys who had instruments played and sang around the campfire while members of the unit would often join in and sing along. This was the beginning of the 2nd South Carolina String Band. Without recognizing it at the time, the group, comprised of mostly amateur musicians playing banjo, fiddle, and guitar, tambourine, bones and military drum - had coalesced into a 20th century recreation of a typical Civil War camp band. In the beginning they played only at night around their company camp fire as they enthusiastically began to explore and perform the music of the War Between the States. Soon they began performing for reenactment dances and concert audiences. More than a decade and a half has passed since the summer they met, and the band's popularity has grown within the Civil War reenactment community and far beyond. During the same period the group itself has grown and matured in their musicianship, sense of historical accuracy, and presentation. The group has changed over time, adding new members and instruments - a second fiddle, fife, pennywhistle and flute. It now numbers eight regular members (with a few frequent guest artists) and they're proud to say that four of the original five men are "still with the colors" - still proudly representing the much renowned but no longer active infantry company they once marched with. Over the years they have worked with filmmaker Ken Burns in contributing period music to the soundtracks for the documentaries "Mark Twain", and the Emmy nominated "JAZZ". Their music is now found on four CDs, which have received airplay on folk music stations from Australia to the United Kingdom, including many university radio and National Public Radio stations in the United States. They have been featured in periodicals as diverse as People Magazine, U.S.A. Today and U.S. News & World Report. In 2002, the band was selected by director Ron Maxwell to provide background instrumental music for the soundtrack as well as to give a rousing on-screen performance in the Warner Brothers film, "Gods & Generals". In November, 2004, at a benefit concert at Gordon College in Massachusetts, the group received the prestigious Stephen Collins Foster Award, in recognition of their contributions to the preservation of 19th century American arts and culture. At a Fall 2005 reenactment they were filmed for an upcoming episode of the British/Public Television travel show, Globe Trekker. On July 4th 2006, they released their fourth CD, Dulcem Melodies, which has been very well received and is "selling like hot cakes". The songs and instrumental tunes performed by the 2nd South Carolina String Band would have been considered the "pop" music of the period beginning in the late 1820's and running through the 1860's - the American Civil War - and beyond. In the years following the American Revolution and the War of 1812, Americans were determined to reject the European classical musical forms and were searching for their own distinctly American musical "voice." They found it in the frontier tradition of tall-tales of larger-than-life American characters such as Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyon, Old Dan Tucker and John Henry. Composers such as Joel Sweeney, Daniel Emmett, Stephen Foster, and George Root, soon arrived on the scene; men who wrote music for a living, to appeal to the masses. This music was unique in that it had no classical background. Its roots were in Celtic, American and African folk melodies. Its songs were filled with the language, slang, and experiences of the common man rather than the intellectual elites and its impact on American culture echoes down to the present day. The 2nd South Carolina String Band plays the songs and music that moved the American people of the early and mid-eighteen hundreds. They play the music that was in the hearts and minds and on the tongues of the citizen-soldiers that made up the ranks of the armies of the North and the South as they marched off to take part in the cataclysmic struggle that was to become the defining event of our nation's history. They play it on instruments of the era and in an authentic manner and style that carries the listener back to simpler times. They play with a verve and excitement that infects even the most reserved listener with their own enjoyment and brings back to vibrant life the tumultuous energy of the American experience during the War Between the States. To experience the 2nd South Carolina String Band is, for a moment, to reach out and touch the past. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.