Dixie’s Land • Southern Soldier • Good Ol’ Rebel • Jenny Get Your Hoe Cake Done • Old Dan Tucker • Fisher’s Hornpipe • Palmetto Quickstep (Instrumental) • Johnny Booker • Jackson in the Valley • Kemo Kimo • McLeod’s Reel (Instrumental) • Oh! Lud Gals! • Boatman’s Song • Hard Times • Rock dat Cradle, Julie (Soldier’s Joy) • John Brown’s March / John Brown’s Dream (Instrumental) • Arkansas Traveler (Instrumental) • Zip Coon

Southern Soldier:  Favorite Camp Songs of the Civil War is a collection of songs and melodies which were well known to Southerners and Northerners alike; tunes that were a familiar and comfortable part of life in the years leading up to the War Between the States. Many of these compositions were written by the likes of Stephen Foster and Daniel Emmett, giants of the popular music industry of their day. Some of the titles, Ol’ Dan Tucker, Dixie’s Land, and Hard Times Come Again No More, are still familiar to the modern-day ear. Other titles on this album, though not familiar to the eye, will be quickly recognizable to the ear. ALL selections on this album are performed on authentic instruments of the period and were chosen for the appealing nature of their rhythms and melodies. They are presented with as unique and individual a spirit as one might expect from a true Confederate camp band of the era.

The best of the first two cassette albums

Tenting in the Old Campground • Battle Cry of Freedom • Cavalier’s Waltz • When Johnny Comes Marching Home • Cindy • Oh! Susanna • Invalid Corps • Buffalo Gals • Kingdom Coming • Bonnie Blue Flag • Jine the Cavalry • Ring de Banjo • Rose of Alabama • Camptown Races • Goober Peas • Cumberland Gap • Sweet Betsey from Pike • Lorena • The Vacant Chair • Richmond is a Hard Road

The 2nd South Carolina String Band recorded their first album; WE’RE TENTING TONIGHT, in 1991. Containing 15 of the most popular songs of the War Between the States, it was well received from the start and continues to be a strong seller. In fact, it was so well received that the band was encouraged to produce a second album, WE ARE A BAND OF BROTHERS, released two years later in 1993. This recording profited from the experience gained since the first – being produced in a better studio with better technology – as well as from two more years of performances together by a band whose reputation was already spreading rapidly. This second album contained another 15 of the most well known songs of the era, thus making the two together a sort of “Top 30″ of the Civil War. Many years later, these two albums continue to attract listeners and fans, new and old. So much so that, pursuant to countless requests to bring them both out on CD, we have done just that! We are proud to offer the our first two albums together at last on one recording. The best of WE’RE TENTING TONIGHT and WE ARE A BAND OF BROTHERS, are here presented with a driving, spirited, and exciting sound worthy of the men whose memory and spirit we strive to honor and evoke.