Jerusalem Ridge

Mark O'Connor, along with his wife, son and daughter-in-law, performing the Bill Monroe tune "Jerusalem Ridge".  Jerusalem Ridge is where Monroe hunted fox when he was a boy.

Slumber My Darling

Alison Krauss with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor performing the Stephen Foster song "Slumber My Darling".

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Steve Martin, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Mark O'Connor and Amos Lee join together to perform the gospel classic, "Will The Circle Be Unbroken."

Appalachian Christmas

A couple videos of songs from Mark O'Connors new release, Appalachian Christmas. At least part of these songs have been released on previous albums, but this is a collection of songs with vaguely Christmas themes.

Alison Krauss & Yo Yo Ma- "Slumber My Darling", as Stepenen Foster song.



James Taylor - "Ol' Blue"



Steve Wariner - "Now it Belongs to You"

Hard Times Come Again No More

Not many songs have 100 years of recorded history. The song "Hard Times Come Again No More" does though. This song was written by Stephen Foster in 1854. For obvious reasons it was popular during the Civil War.

Foster wrote many other songs that are still remembered, including "Old Susanna", "My Old Kentucky Home" and "Camptown Races". But "Hard Times Come Again No More" is probably that one that is recorded the most today.

This song was first recorded in 1905 by the Edison Male Quartet. You can hear that recording here.

Mavis Staples recorded this song for a recent album of Foster songs called Beautiful Dreamer - The Songs of Stephen Foster. Here is a video that was made of that recording.





James Taylor, Yo-Yo Ma, Mark O'Connor and Edgar Meyer record the song for the album Appalachian Journey.





Here is an Irish version done by Dé Danann, with vocals by Mary Black and Dolores Keane.





And for good measure here is Bob Dylan covering the song.