The purpose of this channel is to help others learn the songs of colonial America and the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Era (1822-42). While many of these songs are period correct, other songs were written more recently and either depict those time periods, or about how we as modern-day re-enactors try to reconcile our modern lives with our re-enacting hobby, which our friends, co-workers, and even families often times don't understand. Please bear in mind that I'm not very talented either singing or playing guitar. I'm just trying to provide a place where people that actually have talent can find these songs and learn to play them.
You are a really great history teacher, im very impressed about your teaching and greatful history explanation ... and your honest and passion song, I heard this song in many versions. Yours is the honest and the deep impressionest at all. Faithfully yours ... if i ever visit the USA, I will sit down and listen to your cool songs .. Greetings from Family Grebner, Bavarian ... we love our homeland too ...
Thank you for the kind words. I was indeed a high school history teacher for a time. I brought my love of historical reenacting to the classroom and taught my classes as if they were campfire chats, which is how I had learned alot about history. I was stationed in Berlin in the US Air Force when the Berlin Wall came down, and often visited a buddy down in Würzburg, in the Bavarian area. Tschüss!
Great telling of the story, and very enjoyable performance. I've known this story, read the books and loved the movie. I will be sharing this video with my grandkids. Thank you!
❤thank you for my "5 mins. of fame"..Dreams of Horses would be me. feeling the call for rendezvous always😊...except I shoot archery and bake soda bread...lol❤
I heard a rumor that Tom had found himself a full-time night woman. When I asked him about it, he said that he could neither confirm nor deny the rumor. He also said that he ain't responsible for any decisions he makes when he's drunk.
Thanks for the compliment. I've never claimed to be a good singer or guitar picker; I make plenty of mistakes. I'm just trying to raise awareness of songs that people can play at rendezvous that would better fit the time period.
Sissel, Dearheart, I see us somehow united in this song along with millions of others of course. Just as you it belongs to the ages. The first time I heard it was on my little radio in Melita, Manitoba, in 1952, while a very young boy working on the oil. As I listened it told me there was hope. Had I known I would somehow share it with you I think I'd have fainted in the sadness of knowing you were not yet in the world. In my troubled life I think there was still a spark of something divine.
Yes. An older version of House of the Rising Sun was called the Rising Sun Blues. Changes the whole feeling of Amazing Grace. I quite like it this way.
I can't count the number of times I've opened my clothing trunks over the years just to sit and be enveloped in the smell of camp smoke and get lost in memories.
this has been a favorite of mine for ALL these years. all of the songs much better in person at camp with the campfire🥰 great to see you take your music to the public and global.
