Zanes,Dan Parades & Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected By Carl Sa CD

PARADES AND PANORAMAS is a celebration of American poet Carl Sandburg's the American Songbag (1927), a meticulously indexed and illstrated book described in the introduction as "280 ballads, hobo songs, spirituals, steamboat, railroad and lumberjack songs, close harmony ditties, colonial songs, love songs." in his varied and rough-hew 21st century folk style, Zanes revives 25 of these selections with his various collaborators to bring these songs forward in time with a graceful handmade modern folk style. PARADES AND PANORAMAS is luxuriously packaged with a 60-page booklet offering lyrics, chords, blurbs about the songs and historical photos of musicians to help make the point that playing music was once much more integrated into American society than it is today.

1. Wanderin' 2. The Railroad Cars Are Coming 3. Titanic 4. Railroad Bill 5. Roll the Chariot 6. Waillie, Waillie 7. California 8. All Night Long 9. The Erie 10. The Shanty-Man's Life 11. I Was Born Almost Ten Thousand Years Ago 12. Lo Que Digo 13. Cuckoo Waltz 14. Across the Western Ocean 15. The Monkey's Wedding 16. The Midnight Train 17. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum! 18. Lonesome Road 19. The Son of a Gambolier 20. The Colorado Trail 21. Willy the Weeper 22. Lord Lovel 23. Lincoln and Liberty 24. When the Curtains of Night Are Pinned Back 25. Ezekiel, You and Me