Anonymous 4 - 1865: Songs of Hope and Home from the American Civil War '2015

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	       The songs of the Civil War era tell a story about life in volatile times,
with the feelings evoked by the music and lyrics – longing and grief, faith
and patriotism, nostalgia and hope – utterly resonant for us even 150 years
after the conflict’s end.

These are deeply human feelings, universal and timeless. While many of these
songs are like discoveries in an old family chest, some are still familiar to us
now. The melody of the Elvis Presley hit “Love Me Tender,” for example, can
be traced back to the mid-19th-century tune “Aura Lea,” while “Shall We
Gather at the River?” and Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times” remain standards
in the American treasury of song. For the group’s final album before
disbanding, after nearly 30 years together, Anonymous 4 has recorded the
astutely researched, warmly performed '1865: Songs of Hope and Home'. With this
release, Anonymous 4 not only caps its best-selling, prize-winning harmonia
mundi discography; the album also completes a trilogy of Americana recordings,
begun with 'American Angels' and 'Gloryland', which broadened the reach of a
group renowned for its searching, affecting programs of medieval European
repertoire. As with their previous Americana albums, Anonymous 4 – Ruth
Cunningham, Marsha Genensky, Susan Hellauer and Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek –
sought out collaboration within the folk music community. The featured guest on
1865 is Bruce Molsky, whose fiddle, banjo, guitar and vocals are a galvanising
presence. Offering advance praise for the album, National Public Radio called it
“gorgeous.”

“The arrangements combine a sense of meticulous craft with joyful rhythmic
freedom. Life-enhancing stuff.” (Gramophone, review of “Gloryland”)

Bruce Molsky, fiddle, banjo, guitar, vocals
Anonymous 4

Tracklist:
01. Anonymous 4 - Weeping, Sad and Lonely, or, When this Cruel War is Over
(5:23)
02. Anonymous 4 - Darling Nelly Gray (5:32)
03. Anonymous 4 - Hard times come again no more (4:21)
04. Anonymous 4 - Sweet Evelina (2:56)
05. Bruce Molsky - Bright Sunny South (3:20)
06. Anonymous 4 - The Southern Soldier Boy / Rebel Raid (3:48)
07. Anonymous 4 - Tenting on the Old Camp Ground (4:36)
08. Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek - Aura Lea (5:56)
09. Anonymous 4 - Listen to the Mocking Bird (3:16)
10. Bruce Molsky - Camp Chase (2:19)
11. Bruce Molsky - Brother Green (2:59)
12. Anonymous 4 - The Faded Coat of Blue, or, The Nameless Grave (3:32)
13. Ruth Cunningham - The Maiden in the Garden (3:40)
14. Marsha Genensky - The True Lover's Farewell (2:29)
15. Anonymous 4 - Home, Sweet Home / Polly Put the Kettle On (3:10)
16. Anonymous 4 - The Picture on the Wall (3:02)
17. Anonymous 4 - Abide with Me (3:25)
18. Anonymous 4 - Shall We Gather At The River (3:06) 

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