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Artist: Matthew Sabatella & the Rambling String Band
Description: Although known as a Southern anthem, 'Dixie's Land' was written for the minstrel stage by Daniel Decatur Emmett in New York City. The song was so popular in the South that it became generally accepted as the rallying song of the Confederacy.
Lincoln loved the song since he first heard it at a show by the Rumsey and Newcomb Minstrels in Chicago in 1860. According to a fellow attorney who attended the show with him, after 'Dixie's Land' was played, Lincoln clapped and shouted "Let's have it again! Let's have it again!"
With the end to the Civil War, which had lasted four years, seemingly in sight, President Lincoln gave his Second Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865. He proclaimed, With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds. With that idea in mind, on April 8, 1865, the day before Confederate commander Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant, Lincoln requested that a military band on board the River Queen play 'Dixie's Land', the song to which nearly all of the Southern attacks had been conducted. According to a French writer who accompanied him, Lincoln said, "That tune is now Federal property and it is good to show the rebels that, with us in power, they will be free to hear it again."
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The Rambling String Band is:
Matthew Sabatella (vocal, guitar, banjo)
Jack Stamates (fiddle)
Sean Edelson (mandolin, guitar)
Chris DeAngelis (bass, vocal)
Lynn Griffith (banjo, mandolin, accordion, harmonica, vocal)
10 мар 2009
