The Arkansas Traveler:
Music from Little House on the Prairie
Produced by Butch Baldassari and Dale Cockrell
Eighteen songs are woven into "Little House on the Prairie", many of them among the greatest in 19th Century American music. This recording gives new voice and sound to the music from a classic book, music which has remained silent on the page for far too long.
To read the book and hear the music adds fresh, emotional depth to a familiar story, as Wilder herself wrote, "if you want the spirit of these times, you should [hear] these old songs."
Includes these familiar and popular tunes. Click the hyperlinks shown to download and play mp3 audio files (requires your computer to have an mp3 player):
* The Battle Cry of Freedom(John Cowan)
* Old Dan Tucker (Elizabeth Cook)
* The Gum Tree Canoe (Buddy Greene)
* Money Musk (Pa's Fiddle Band)
* Green Grows the Laurel (Deborah Packard/John Mock)
* Daisy Deane (Mike Eldred/Nashville Mandolin Ensemble)
* Irish Washerwoman (Pa's Fiddle Band)
* Roll on Silver Moon (Judith Edelman/Blair String Quartet)
* The Blue Juniata (Riders in the Sky)
* Dixie's Land (Bob Carlin)
* Happy Land (Peggy Duncan SIngers)
* The Monkey's Wedding (Mac Wiseman)
* The Devil's Dream (Butch Baldassari/David Schnaufer)
* Oh! California [Oh! Susanna] (Andrea Zonn/Alison Brown)
* The Gypsy King (Jeff Black)
* Bye Baby Bunting (Deborah Packard)
* The Arkansas Traveler (Riders in the Sky)
* BONUS: "...in the pot" Fantasy on "Pease Porridge Hot"
(Stan Link)
