In the 1940s, the Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project, sponsored by the Library of Congress and the University of Wisconsin, took Helene Stratman-Thomas and other fieldworkers on a collecting expedition around Wisconsin to document a folk music that reflects the colorful pattern of immigration and and occupational development in the state. This album presents a folk portrait of English-language songs from the project, many from England, Scotland, and Ireland, including a child's singing game, historical ballads, dance tunes, and several lumberjack songs. Dora Richards / J.L. Peters / Winifred Bundy / Lester A. Coffee / Mrs. Pearl Jacobs Borusky / William Jacob Morgan / Mr. & Mrs. Otto Rindlisbacher / Emery DeNoyer / Arthur (Happy) Moseley / Charles Bowlen / Luther Royce / Mrs. Frances Perry / Robert Walker / Hamilton Lobdell

22 tracks on this CD include:

Pompey Is Dead and Laid in His Grave; How Happy Is the Sportsman; Lord Lovel; Awake, Arise, You Drowsy Sleeper; I'll Sell My Hat, I'll Sell My Coat; Once I Courted a Charming Beauty Bright (Lover's Lament); Brennan on the Moor; The Pinery Boy; The Swamper's Revenge on the Windfall; The Couderay Jig; Lumberjack Dance Tune; Pig Schottische; Shantyman's Life; The Bold McIntyres; The Little Brown Bulls; Young Johnny (Springfield Mountain); Billy Vanero; Cranberry Song; On the Lakes of Ponchatrain; The Milwaukee Fire; Reuben Wright and Phoebe Brown

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Product #: 21202158