Song Rail 2 - Button 2: Subsistence on the Frontier

"Barbara Allen"

Kenny Price, Eddie Bond and the McPeak Brothers, medley of versions. British diarist Samuel Pepys

referred to this “little Scotch song” in his diary, January 2, 1666.

"Bonaparte’s Retreat"

William Hamilton Stepp, 1937 field recording of an American fiddle tune commemorating Napoleon Bonaparte’s retreat from Moscow in 1812.

"Little Brown Jug"

Joe and Odell Thompson with John D. Holeman, black string band playing a 19th-century drinking song

"The Grey Eagle"

Kevin Fore Band, “Round Peak”–style version of a tune some attribute to Scottish fiddler Niel Gow (1727–1807) or his publisher son, Nathaniel, or even a 19th-century racehorse. The band is from Low Gap, North Carolina, near Round Peak