Friday, August 29, 2014

Songs & Places: Themes

Delta Road, 2002. oil on cardboard





























We'll treat the following themes, week by week. The list is approximately chronological--a new theme will be presented each week in class. So heads up! The songs correspond to your S&P Songsheets (tan cover) and to the recordings on the S&P CD Download.

 

Love Songs

   Down in the Valley
   You Are My Sunshine

Spirituals

   Oh Mary Don’t You Weep
   Since I Laid My Burden Down
   Do Lord

Appalachia

   Banks of the Ohio
   Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Anglo-Irish-Scots Ballads

   Barbara Allen
   Down by the Sally Gardens  
   Comin’ thro’ the Rye

Mississippi John Hurt (Songster I)
   Beulah Land
   Make Me Down a Pallet on Your Floor

Lead Belly (Songster II)
   Goodnight, Irene
   Rock Island Line

Woody Guthrie (Songster III)
   This Land Is Your Land
   Going down the Road
   Roll on Columbia  

Spirituals II

   Amazing Grace
   Swing Low Sweet Chariot

Blues

   Sweet Home Chicago
   Corrine, Corrina
   Careless Love


Cowboy Songs

   Streets of Laredo
   I Ride an Old Paint

Sea Shanties

   Greenland Fisheries
   Blow Ye Winds of Morning

Love Songs

   Shenandoah
   Red River Valley