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balladofamerica uploaded a new video
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Artist: Matthew Sabatella
Description: Matthew Sabatella was recorded sin...
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Artist: Matthew Sabatella
Description: Matthew Sabatella was recorded singing 'Lonesome Valley' at a concert celebrating Pete Seeger's 90th birthday. This traditional song is a Seeger concert favorite and a great one for audience singing.
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balladofamerica uploaded a new video
(4 months ago)

Artist: Matthew Sabatella & the Rambling String Band
Studio recordin...
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Artist: Matthew Sabatella & the Rambling String Band
Studio recording of this song available on the album "Songs in the Life of Abraham Lincoln (Ballad of America Volume 3) ." http://www.ballad...
Description: Although known as a Southern anthem, 'Dixie's Land' was written for the minstrel stage by Daniel Decatur Emmett in New York City. The song was so popular in the South that it became generally accepted as the rallying song of the Confederacy.
Lincoln loved the song since he first heard it at a show by the Rumsey and Newcomb Minstrels in Chicago in 1860. According to a fellow attorney who attended the show with him, after 'Dixie's Land' was played, Lincoln clapped and shouted "Let's have it again! Let's have it again!"
With the end to the Civil War, which had lasted four years, seemingly in sight, President Lincoln gave his Second Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865. He proclaimed, With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds. With that idea in mind, on April 8, 1865, the day before Confederate commander Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant, Lincoln requested that a military band on board the River Queen play 'Dixie's Land', the song to which nearly all of the Southern attacks had been conducted. According to a French writer who accompanied him, Lincoln said, "That tune is now Federal property and it is good to show the rebels that, with us in power, they will be free to hear it again."
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balladofamerica is celebrating the release of 'Songs in the Life of Abraham Lincoln'.
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balladofamerica uploaded a new video
(7 months ago)
Artist: Matthew Sabatella & the Rambling String Band with the Pompan...
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Artist: Matthew Sabatella & the Rambling String Band with the Pompano Beach Old-Time Jammers
Description: This song was written for the minstrel stage by a composer known only as J.K. It became popular during the Civil War and passed into Southern fiddling tradition in a somewhat altered form. With the help of the Pompano Beach Old-Time Jammers, Matthew Sabatella & the Rambling String Band bring together the popular vocal version of the song with the old-time fiddle version. See "Old Joe Clark" and "Golden slippers" for more from 'Old-Time Music Night' at Luna Star Cafe in North Miami on Friday, October 24, 2008.
Please visit http://www.ballad... for free song downloads, blog, upcoming concerts, pictures and more.
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balladofamerica uploaded a new video
(7 months ago)
Artist: Matthew Sabatella & the Rambling String Band with the Pompan...
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Artist: Matthew Sabatella & the Rambling String Band with the Pompano Beach Old-Time Jammers
Description: This is a widely-known old-time breakdown. See "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Golden slippers" for more from 'Old-Time Music Night' at Luna Star Cafe in North Miami on Friday, October 24, 2008.
Please visit http://www.ballad... for free song downloads, blog, upcoming concerts, pictures and more.
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