Almanac Music: ‘We’d Go Down to the River’ – Songs Concerning Rivers

In this Friday’s installment of KD’s ongoing series about popular music themes, the topic is songs concerning rivers. As usual, readers are warmly welcomed to put forward their own contributions.

Almanac Music: Greatest Hits of 1856 – ‘Gentle Annie’ by Stephen Foster

In this Friday’s column, KD discusses an American pre-Civil War popular song, Stephen Foster’s beautiful ballad ‘Gentle Annie’, and examines how it has stood the test of time, presenting a couple of versions as examples.