Beautiful Dreamer (album)

Beautiful Dreamer: the songs of Stephen Foster
Compilation album by Various artists
Released July/August, 2004
Genre Folk
Label American Roots Publishing/Emergent Music Marketing (now Thirty Tigers)
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Beautiful Dreamer is a compilation album comprising 18 songs originally penned by Stephen Foster. Released in 2004 by American Roots Publishing[2]/Emergent Music Marketing (since renamed to Thirty Tigers[3]), the collection features many contemporary country music(and other) artists placing modern interpretations on Stephen Foster's music.[4] The album won the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album in 2005.

Track listing

  1. "Beautiful Dreamer" – Raul Malo
  2. "Slumber My Darling" – Alison Krauss with Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor
  3. "Don't Bet Money On The Shanghai" – BR5-49
  4. "Nelly Was A Lady" – Alvin Youngblood Hart
  5. "No One To Love" – Judith Edelman
  6. "Camptown Races" – The Duhks
  7. "My Old Kentucky Home" – John Prine
  8. "Autumn Waltz" – Henry Kaiser
  9. "In The Eye Abides The Heart" – Beth Nielsen Chapman
  10. "Old Folks At Home" – David Ball
  11. "Oh! Susanna" – Michelle Shocked & Pete Anderson
  12. "Willie We Have Missed You (instrumental)" – Grey DeLisle
  13. "Hard Times Come Again No More" – Mavis Staples
  14. "Gentle Annie" – Bruce Robison & Ollabelle
  15. "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" – Roger McGuinn
  16. "Ah, May The Red Rose Live Always" – Suzy Bogguss
  17. "Holiday Schottisch" – Will Barrow
  18. "Comrades Fill No Glass For Me" – Ron Sexsmith

References

  1. ^ allmusic review
  2. ^ http://www.ellis-creative.com/arp.html accessed 4/29/2009
  3. ^ http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/002237.html accessed 4/29/2009
  4. ^ http://www.ellis-creative.com/dreamer.html accessed 4/29/2009
Songs
Minstrel songs: Angelina Baker · Camptown Races · Don't Bet Your Money on de Shanghai (1861) · The Glendy Burk (1860) · Lou'siana Belle (1847) · Massa's in de Cold Ground (1852) · My Brodder Gum (1849) · My Old Kentucky Home · Nelly Bly · Nelly Was a Lady · Oh! Lemuel · Oh! Susanna (1848) · Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) ·
Parlor songs: Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway! · Beautiful Dreamer (1864) · Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming · Hard Times Come Again No More · Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair · Old Black Joe · Old Dog Tray (1853) · Open Thy Lattice Love (1844) · Some Folks (1855) · Willie We Have Missed You (1854) ·
Civil War songs: Nothing But a Plain Old Soldier (1863) · A Soldier in the Colored Brigade (1863) · That's What's the Matter (1862) ·
People and Places
Publishers
F. D. Benteen · Firth, Pond & Co. · Firth, Son & Co. · John J. Daly · W. C. Peters & Co. · Wm. A. Pond & Co. ·
Films, musicals, recordings
Films: Harmony Lane · I Dream of Jeanie · Swanee River ·
Musicals: Stephen Foster - The Musical ·
Recordings: Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster ·
Culture
Halls of Fame and State Parks
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