SOUTHERN SOLDIER: Favorite Camp Songs of the Civil War

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Free Music Review: Finally Real Sounding Minstrel Music
Hit: 5 Stars

Bob Flesher is a master of the minstrel banjo style, but his singing does not begin to capture, as these guys do, the essesce which helped make minstrel music America's primary popular music for around 70 years. Likewise, Douglas Jimerson, who has several Stephen Foster CDs out, sings well and is rhythmic in his presentation, but still sounds like a classical performer singing folk songs. Joe Weed barely registers on the scale and all of the choral performances with which I am familiar fail as well. Only the 2nd South Carolina String Band truely captures the original minstrel sound through their skilled and spirited performances.

If more people had the opportunity to hear the 2nd SCSB perform, they would finally come to really understand what there was about minstrel music which made it so special.

The first time I heard "Southern Soldier" was one of those revelatory moment in my life, an epiphany of sorts, where I knew, almost intrinsically, that, for the first time I was really hearing minstrel music as it should be performed. I was alone at the time and my verbal response was just a simple, "damn." That seems to sum it up pretty well. Buy this album, sit back, and enter another world and another time in American History and go there first class.

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