a note from dan zanes americans used to make a lot more music than they do these days. i have good news! we could easily be doing it again. parades and panoramas is my way of showing how much fun old songs can be to learn, sing and play. i chose my favorite tunes from carl sandburg's classic 1927 folk song collection entitled "the american songbag" and learned them with my friends. we put our stamp on these songs and had a wild time doing it. out of this came a twenty-five song cd and a sixty page booklet which includes lyrics, chords, some of sandburg's writing, my own thoughts, and a few dozen historical photos of american musicians.
this is our follow up to "sea music" and the second release in the traditional music series. although it's not a kids record in the usual sense, i would recommend it to everyone who likes to hear songs from our past brought naturally into the present times. these are perfect tunes for any family band.
track listing:
1. wanderin'
2. the railroad cars are coming
3. titanic
4. railroad bill
5. roll the chariot
6. waillie, waillie
7. california
8. all night long
9. the erie
10. the shanty-man's life
11. i was born almost ten thousand years ago
12. lo que digo
13. cuckoo waltz
14. across the western ocean
15. the monkey's wedding
16. the midnight train
17. hallelujah, i'm a bum!
18. lonesome road
19. the son of a gambolier
20. the colorado trail
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
