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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Best Camp Music Around Sep 21, 2005
By Reb's Boy
"Displaced Confederate"
The rendition of Old Dan Tucker alone is worth price of the CD. The combination of old-style banjo, fiddle, fife,vocals, and rhythm instruments like bones makes for great listening. Tunes like "Southern Soldier," "Dixie's Land," and "Jackson in the Valley" definitely come to life at the hands of these talented musicians. My father, who was known as "Reb" rather than his given name, was always singing "Old Dan Tucker." Listening to this CD brings back some good memories of him.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Fine little camp band May 21, 2004
By Bedford
"Southron"
I received this CD after returning home from a Civil War re-enactment. Popped it the player and collasped in my easy chair.Wow, what a surprise! Hadn't heard anything like this before. I closed my eyes and felt like it was 1863. Thought I smelled wood smoke from the fires and heard the noises of camp life along with the sweet sounds of a fine little Civil War camp band. Not sure but I think I saw "Marse Robert" down by the officer's tents. Gotta' get the other CDs.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Traditionally Excellent Jun 26, 2005
By Jonathan Brown
The band plays period music - no slick bluegrass but innovative arrangements of songs that were popular during the civil war. There is a good collection of music - which gets even better with their second album - Hard Times. I liked both and think you will too. Old Dan Tucker is one of the best pieces on the CD - but all of the tunes are fun. You get a good idea of what people heard during the time of the war.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
It Don't Get Any Better Than This May 27, 2005
By William B. Baer
This is "old time music" at its finest. This is the Band that
all other bands playing this kind of music listen to when they
want to hear how "its really done". This group has raised the bar and given everyone else the target to focus on. The only thing better than listening to the Second South Carolina String Band is seeing them perform live. Just go buy the CD and listen for yourself it will be money well spent.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Finally Real Sounding Minstrel Music Jan 26, 2004
By D. M. Clements
"dmclements"
Quite simply, no other person or group currently recording captures so well the rhythm and infectiousness of minstrel songs as does the 2nd South Carolina String Band. 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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