Hard Times Come Again No More - 2nd South Carolina String Band
Far, Far from Home - 2nd South Carolina String Band
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Stephen Foster captured the mood of America in the mid-1850’s with this parlor song. The United States was experiencing a recession and Stephen’s home town of Pittsburg, PA was suffering from record unemployment. Compounding their situation in the summer of 1854, cholera struck killing 400 people in just two weeks. When Firth, Pond & Co., of New York, published this song in 1855, they advertised it as “just the song for the times.” This melody again became appropriate in the turmoil of the War Between the States.
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