"Medicine Fiddle"
Anyone who loves (or even just likes) the fiddle MUST see this. You can watch astreaming version or order a copy through Up North Films.
From
the video:
"L'charbonniers
de l'enfer"
Magnificent a capella chansons à répondre (response
songs). I can't vouch for the temporal authenticity of all the
songs, but if any recording captures the feeling of a bunch of
guys belting out songs as the drag themselves up a river, or as
they dance about a campfire after a wee dram, this is it. Okay, so
the harmonies of the Corps of Discovery may not have been this
tight, but we'll never know for sure.
"Songs
of the Voyageurs"
A choir sings these songs, so the recording definitely doesn't
sound like the expedition. But the songs are all good, old
voyageur songs.
"Hearts
of Gold" -- William
Pint & Felicia Dale.
Wonderful recording overall, but "C'est L'Aviron" only
Cruzatte-oriented one.
"Heritage
Familial" -- Daniel
Perron.
This recording is *fantastic*, though some of the songs are too
new, and the instrumentation is all wrong.
"Lewis
and Clark"--The
Trail Band
The best of these sorts of albums thus far. Wonderful song about
Patrick Gass.
"Lewis
and Clark: Songs of the Journey" -- Kindra Ankney wrote these
delightful songs and Bobby Horton performs them. There's a beautifully
illustrated companion book to go along with the recording.
"Lewis
and Clark: Sounds of
Discovery"
This one is the most ambitious attempt to put together a survey of
the music of the expedition. I highly recommend this one, though
the fiddling is a bit too clean and un-dancelike to be authentic
(in my opinion, of course--not having heard Monsieur Cruzatte
himself).
"From
the Journals of Lewis and
Clark"--Daniel
Bukvich
Classical work commissioned to celebrate the fortieth anniversary
of the Great Falls Symphony (Great Falls, Montana). On
CD.
