FDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year with Howe Pearson and Sasha Suczyk and looks at the history and evolution of shape note singing in North America, as well as various cultural and social aspects of the tradition.
Tracklist
NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – I Walked Abroad
Wootten Family – Ortonville
Cork Sacred Harp Singers – Tribulation
Lee Family – While Sorrows Encompass Me Round (Tune Skeleton of Idumea)
Northampton Harmony – Despair
Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton – And Am I Born To Die?
Shenandoah Harmony Singers – Buonaparte
Frank Harte – The Isle of Saint Helena
The Doc Watson Family – The Lone Pilgrim
Sacred Harp Singers – The Lone Pilgrim
Martha Woodard – Murillo's Lesson
The Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven Shape Note Singing Convention Singers – Amazing Grace
Landless – Doomsday
NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – The Last Judgement
Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers – My Mothers Gone
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FDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year with Howe Pearson and Sasha Suczyk and looks at the history and evolution of shape note singing in North America, as well as various cultural and social aspects of the tradition.
Tracklist
NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – I Walked Abroad
Wootten Family – Ortonville
Cork Sacred Harp Singers – Tribulation
Lee Family – While Sorrows Encompass Me Round (Tune Skeleton of Idumea)
Northampton Harmony – Despair
Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton – And Am I Born To Die?
Shenandoah Harmony Singers – Buonaparte
Frank Harte – The Isle of Saint Helena
The Doc Watson Family – The Lone Pilgrim
Sacred Harp Singers – The Lone Pilgrim
Martha Woodard – Murillo's Lesson
The Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven Shape Note Singing Convention Singers – Amazing Grace
Landless – Doomsday
NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – The Last Judgement
Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers – My Mothers Gone
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This episode looks at the song Hares on the Mountain aka Blackbirds and Thrushes aka If All the Young Women aka Nancy Lay Sleeping aka The Knife in the Window aka Pretty Polly aka Shepherd So Bold aka Sally My Dear aka Lightning and Thunder aka Crawling and Creeping aka Ain't Gonna Do It No More aka Roll Yer Leg Over
Tracklist
Shirley Collins and Davy Graham – Hares on the Mountain
Harry List – Knife on the Window
AL Lloyd – Pretty Polly
Harry Cox – Knife in the Window
Belinda Kempster and Fran Foote – Knife in the Window
The Three ‘Baccer Tags – Ain’t Gonna Do It No More
Jim Garland – Crawling and Creeping
Dan Tate – Lightning and Thunder
Oscar Brand – Roll Your Leg Over
Fine & Bawdy Wenches – Roll Yer Leg Over
Seamus Ennis – Blackbirds and Thrushes
Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy – Hares on the Mountain
Frankie Armstrong with Maddy Prior – Hares on the Mountain (feat. Maddy Prior)
Radie Peat and Daragh Lynch – Hares on the Mountain
Shirley Collins – Hares on the Mountain
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Picture shows Jack Bernard of Bridgwater Somerset. From https://cecilsharpspeople.org.uk - thank Ellie!
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FDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year with Howe Pearson and Sasha Suczyk and looks at the history and evolution of shape note singing in North America, as well as various cultural and social aspects of the tradition.
Tracklist
NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – I Walked Abroad
Wootten Family – Ortonville
Cork Sacred Harp Singers – Tribulation
Lee Family – While Sorrows Encompass Me Round (Tune Skeleton of Idumea)
Northampton Harmony – Despair
Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton – And Am I Born To Die?
Shenandoah Harmony Singers – Buonaparte
Frank Harte – The Isle of Saint Helena
The Doc Watson Family – The Lone Pilgrim
Sacred Harp Singers – The Lone Pilgrim
Martha Woodard – Murillo's Lesson
The Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven Shape Note Singing Convention Singers – Amazing Grace
Landless – Doomsday
NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – The Last Judgement
Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers – My Mothers Gone
https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear