Various Artists – Southeast Alaska 2 / Various [CD]

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.

Tracklist:

1. Stampede Medley: Skaguay Vamp/Life On The Railroad
2. Stampede Medley: Stroller White’s Account/Battleship Maine
3. Stampede Medley: Stroller White’s Account/Diary Of A Stampeder/Soapy Smith
4. Stampede: Lady Of The Chilkoot
5. Stampede: Diggin’
6. Stampede Medley: News Of The Nineties/Front Porch
7. Settlement Medley: Pioneers’ Conversation And Chimes/Cheechako
8. Settlement Medley: Squarehead Story/Norwegian Seaman/Juneau Jig
9. Settlement Medley: Aana Hei/Chaplin’s Adventure
10. Settlement Medley: Po Breng Alindahaw/Renaissance Song
11. Settlement Medley: Henry Davis Diary/Squaws Along The Yukon
12. Settlement Medley: Henry Davis Diary/Old Trapper’s Den
13. Settlement: Old Man Of The Sea

UPC: 093073403229
Label: FOLKWAYS RECORDS
Release Date: 5.30.12
Format: CD