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Dan Zanes - Parades and Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag

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Format: CD
Label: FESTIVAL FIVE REC.
Catalog: 7
Rel. Date: 09/14/2004
UPC: 800495000727

Parades and Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sandburg For The American Songbag
Artist: Dan Zanes
Format: CD
New: Available $12.98
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DISC: 1

1. Wanderin'
2. Railroad Cars Are Coming, The
3. Titanic
4. Railroad Bill
5. Roll the Chariot
6. Waillie Waillie!
7. California
8. All Night Long
9. Erie, The
10. Shanty Man's Life, The
11. I Was Born Almost Ten Thousand Years Ago
12. Lo que Digo
13. Cuckoo Waltz
14. Across the Western Ocean
15. Monkey's Wedding, The
16. Midnight Train, The
17. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!
18. Lonesome Road
19. Son of a Gambolier, The
20. Colorado Trail, The
21. Willy the Weeper
22. Lord Lovel
23. Lincoln and Liberty
24. When the Curtains of Night Are Pinned Back
25. Ezekiel You and Me

More Info:

PARADES AND PANORAMAS is a celebration of American poet Carl Sandburg's the American Songbag (1927), a meticulously indexed and illstrated book described in the introduction as "280 ballads, hobo songs, spirituals, steamboat, railroad and lumberjack songs, close harmony ditties, colonial songs, love songs." in his varied and rough-hew 21st century folk style, Zanes revives 25 of these selections with his various collaborators to bring these songs forward in time with a graceful handmade modern folk style. PARADES AND PANORAMAS is luxuriously packaged with a 60-page booklet offering lyrics, chords, blurbs about the songs and historical photos of musicians to help make the point that playing music was once much more integrated into American society than it is today.
        
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