Today's AMERICANA playlist.

[Mystic]

 

[DeadTrader]

 

[Lonzo]

 

[Erik Tracy]

Streaming Americana Boogie Radio (Roku/Tune In App)

 

[Erik Tracy]

Good pickin' with Billy Strings on KNBT

 

[Erik Tracy]

 

[enricosonic]

 

[Erik Tracy]

 

[Erik Tracy]

Levon Helm - Ramble at the Ryman

 

[Erik Tracy]

Jorma Kaukonen - Blue Country Heart

 

[Erik Tracy]

Bonnie Raitt - Luck of the Draw

 

[Erik Tracy]

Elvin Bishop - The Encore Collection/Extended Versions (Live)


Jammin' good!

 

[Erik Tracy]

The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Hot Stuff/Greatest Hits

 

[Erik Tracy]

Govt Mule - The Deep End Vol 1

 

[Erik Tracy]

Now we're gettin' down

 

[Lonzo]

 

[fd1]

“America the Beautiful” a hymn tune composed by Samuel A. Ward was generally considered the best music as early as 1910 and remains a popular tune today. Just as Bates had been inspired to write her poem, Ward, too was inspired to compose his tune. The tune came to him while he was on a ferryboat trip from Coney Island back to his home in New York City, after a leisurely summer day in 1882, and he immediately wrote it down. He was so anxious to capture the tune in his head that he asked fellow passenger and friend Harry Martin for his shirt cuff to write the tune on. He composed the tune for the old hymn "O Mother Dear, Jerusalem", renaming the work "Materna". Ward's music combined with Bates' poem were first published together in 1910 and titled, America the Beautiful.
It was first published in the Parish Choir, a religious music periodical. From there, it was published in several hymnals. In 1904, Charles A. Barbour, a Baptist preacher, determined that it was the inspired hymn tune he was seeking for, to put Katharine A. Bates poem "America, the Beautiful" to music.
Samuel Ward was born on December 28, 1848, in Newark, New Jersey. He started playing the accordion when he was six years old, and by the age of sixteen, he was an organist at a church in New York City. Later, he owned a music store, played the organ at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, NJ and composed music.
Ward died in 1903, not knowing the national stature his music would attain, as the music was only first applied to the song in 1904.

 

[v8peters]

America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song
Johnny Cash
1972 Columbia CR 31645 4-Track 3¾ IPS

My CD/LP/Tape Collection

 

[Erik Tracy]

It sure sounds like Levon Helm, but dang, just good 'ol stompin' foot tappin' music.

Love the title.

 

[Erik Tracy]

Wow - so good!

Midnight River Choir - "We'll Be Gone"