Title: Southeast Alaska 2 / Various Artist: Various Artists Label: Folkways Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 093073403229 Genre: Country, Folk Release Date: 2012-05-30 Number of Discs: 1
This album, recorded in 1980, includes retellings of colorful episodes from Alaskan history, piano rags, blues, Native chants, and more. Selections highlight the diversity of peoples and traditions that met as the region was being explored, exploited, and settled. The three-part series-"a cultural history of Southeast Alaska in music and song and conversation"?was collected and arranged by John Ingalls and Barry Roderick. The liner notes include a detailed timeline, historical images, and information about each track.
Tracks: 1.1 Stampede: Skaguay Vamp / Life on the Railroad (Medley) 1.2 Stampede: Stroller White's Account / Battleship Maine (Medley) 1.3 Stampede: Stroller White's Account / Diary of a Stampeder / Soapy Smith (Medley) 1.4 Stampede: Lady of the Chilkoot 1.5 Stampede: Diggin' 1.6 Stampede: New's of the Nineties / Front Porch (Medley) 1.7 Settlement: Pioneers' Conversation and Chimes / Cheechako (Medley) 1.8 Settlement: Squarehead Story / Norwegian Seaman / Juneau Jig (Medley) 1.9 Settlement: Aana Hei / Chaplin's Adventure (Medley) 1.10 Settlement: Po Breng Alindahaw / Renaissance Song (Medley) 1.11 Settlement: Henry Davis Diary / Squaws Along the Yukon (Medley) 1.12 Settlement: Henry Davis Diary / Old Trapper's Den (Medley) 1.13 Settlement: Old Man of the Sea
