Showing posts with label Stephen Foster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen Foster. Show all posts

Monday, 1 August 2011

Camptown Races

Keeping in the Stephen Foster vein and adding to my 'Tunes I play' list. Another I learnt from the ocarina book. 'Nough said:




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Making Music Fun

Hard Times

Looking up Stephen Foster I discover he wrote 'Hard Times'. I know this beautiful tune from Bob Dylan's covers album 'Good as I Been to You'.

From 1993:



Oh! Susanna

One I learned to play a while back through 'Play your Ocarina - Book 1' by David and Christa Liggins. Not on ocarina, but whistle. Great old American tune this by Stephen Foster. Here it's played by Johnny Cash and James Taylor: