Log Cabin Songs

Library Bookwatch, July, 2005

Log Cabin Songs

Wayne Erbsen & Laura Boosinger

Native Ground Music

109 Bell Road, Asheville, NC 28805-1521

www.nativeground.com

NG-CD-115 $9.95 1-800-752-2656

Log Cabin Songs is an impressive performed and recorded collection of ten vocal and six instrumentals songs drawn from the early days of the American frontier. The sixteen songs drawn from our American pioneer tradition include Sugar in the Gourd (2:43); My Old Cottage Home (3:01); Red Rocking Chair (2:49); Little Log Cabin in the Lane (2:53); Fracas on York Ridge (2:21); Blackest Crow (2:58); Cricket on the Hearth (3:07); Mary of the Wild Moor (3:45); Cabin Creek (2:52); East Virginia (3:18); Little Whitewashed Chimney (2:49); Lost Jug in the Cornpile (2:50); Goodbye to My Stepstone (3:52); Darling Cory (3:43); Puncheon Floor (2:46); and The Hound Dog Song (2:38). Also very highly recommended for personal, school, and community library CD music collections are two companion recordings from Native Ground Music: Wayne Erbsen's The Home Front: 17 Authentic Tunes Of The Civil War (NG-CD-006, $9.95) and Waterdance: Melodies And Rhythms Of Nature On Hammered/Lap Dulcimers And Celtic Harp (NG-CD-222, $9.95) performed by Katie LaRaye Waldren and Candace Kreitlow.