Part I: Appalachian Wagon Train: Appalachian Barn Dance - instrumental Swinging on a Gate Give the Fiddler a Dram Traditional New England/Appalachian fiddle tunes, arr. Sorrell Nobody But The Baby - Sandra Simon, Scott Mello, Abigail Lennox Traditional Southern lullaby, collected by Alan Lomax as sung by Mrs. S. Carter in Mississippi arr. Sorrell Hold On - Paul Shipper & Company Kentucky spiritual, collected by Cecil Sharp as sung by the girls at Oneida School, Kentucky arr. Sorrell The Fox Went Out On A Chilly Night - Sandra Simon, soprano Text traditional Elizabethan & Appalachian melody by Custer LaRue* Willie, Prithee Goe To Bed - Paul Shipper & Company Thomas Ravenscroft, 1609 traditional New England/ppalachian, arr. Sorrell Ways Of The World/Dusty Miller - Tina Bergmann, hammered dulcimer Traditional Appalachian, arr. Bergmann/Schiffer
Part II: Love & Death: The Three Ravens - Sandra Simon, soprano Thomas Ravenscroft, 1610 traditional New England/Appalachian, arr. Sorrell Lark In The Morning Medley - Kathie Stewart, flute Dark Island Lark in the Morning Kesh Jig Knights of St. Patrick Traditional Irish, arr. Stewart Old Virginny - Scott Mello, tenor Traditional Southern Appalachian, collected by Jean Ritchie arr. Sorrell The Girl Who Broke My Heart - René Schiffer, cello Traditional Southern, arr. Schiffer Wild Bill Jones - Scott Mello & Company Traditional Appalachian/Kentucky ballad, arr. Sorrell/Jones
Part III: Revival Meeting: Wayfaring Stranger - Abigail Lennox, soprano The Kentucky Harmony, 1816 (titled Judgment), arr. Sorrell Glory In The Meeting House Traditional Kentucky fiddle tune, arr. Bergmann/Sorrell/Schiffer Return Again
Savior, Visit Thy Plantation The Sacred Harp, 1844 What Wondrous Love Is This The Sacred Harp, 1844, arr. Sorrell Dances From New England & Ireland - Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichord The Rakes of Kildare Langstroms Pony The Kitchen Girl The Gravel Walk Morning Trumpet/Oh When Shall I See Jesus The Southern Harmony, 1835 Down In The River To Pray - Sandra Simon & Company Traditional Southern folk hymn
Bonus Track: Old Joe Clark [Appalachian Barn Dance ? Encore version] Southern fiddle tune & breakdown dance, arr. Sorrell
Apollo's Fire conjures early 19th century rural Americana with Come to the River, an evocative and kaleidoscope journey through traditional folk songs and fiddle tunes, ballades and barn dances, and the indispensable Old Time revivalist meetings. This is music as old as the hills themselves, a melting pot of Irish, English and Scottish tunes which permeated Appalachian culture, and rural America based on field recordings of Old-Time and Appalachian singers. Come to the River was conceived by Apollo?s Fire founder Jeannette Sorrell who first began to identify with this music when, as a teenager, her family moved to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, and she landed her first job playing piano for the Greenway Southern Baptist Church. She draws on the expertise of the great folklorists Francis James Child and Alan Lomax, and British immigrant Cecil Sharp.
Come to the River features leading vocalists and instrumentalists practicing in the early American folk tradition. Fiddle, banjo, hammered dulcimer and Irish flute, with cello and harpsichord, back the vocalists? beautiful, stark, open harmonies and shape-note hymns ? tunes that are instantly recognizable and an indelible ingredient in American musical history.
CD01 TK 01 Traditional New England Appalachian Barn Dance
