Barbara Allen and a trusty mouth harp

An "old standard" among folk songs. While practicing The Chapman Stick, I tend to forget about many of the instruments in this Cairo flat of ours. So this performance makes use of a number of instruments that were just waiting to be picked up.

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Music

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• Barbara Allen
• The Chapman Stick
• Hohner harmonica
• 5-string banjo
• folk guitar
• tambourine
• 12-string

[ways1234]

Great passion n playin.....

Thank you ....all sweetness n all grace.......your music.

[TheFolksinger]

Thanks for the encouragement.

[blogward]

Hint of Ray Charles in that vocal!

[TheFolksinger]

I can live with that! Thanks for the encouragement.

[danmovproduction]

I love this video =) 5*****

[TheFolksinger]

Thanks for the comment. I was impressed by your material as well, and am now a subscriber.

[Gingerjake2]

Oh actually it is part of the American music scene big time, so here's a gun - go shoot yourself in the foot again. =)

According to the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage, the song was brought to the Smokey Mountain regions of the US from Ireland in the 1700's & adapted by early settlers. Eureka! American folk music.

[TheFolksinger]

Thanks! It's nice to be linked to all this tradition. I too have loved this song for at least the last 50 years. It was one of the first songs I sang at those "hootenannys" that were a part of my post-high-school weekends. Of course the counter-tenors that sing this are simply in a different league. Love them all!

[Gingerjake2]

Okay, so now I'm humbled! LOL! I've always loved this song...it's origins are Irish, are they not? I fell in love with it as a kid watching Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim. It's done in that movie & I have never gotten tired of listening to it in all it's renditions. I really enjoyed yours...very much! =)

[FAUSTORICCARDO]

V Good music Bill. Thanks