A Few Good Recordings

The MIDI files presented on this Web site are by no means exhaustive and are likely to leave the listener eager for more. To that end, we recommend the following online sources for recorded music:

• After Class
  • "Hues of Blues and Greys" is a first-class recording of War Between the States standards by this Birmingham-based group

• Southern Horizon
  • These first-class Southern musicians have performed to sellout crowds at the Museum of the Confederacy's annual balls and for reenactments, museums, conventions, schools, universities, and private engagements and have just released their third recording.

• The Civil War Music Store
  • If Bobby Horton recorded it, you want to hear it. Visit Gary Johnson's Web site for a complete selection of period music by the acknowledged king of War Between the States music.

• 5th Michigan Regimental Band
  • An outstanding collection of tapes and CDs by the modern-day successors of the original 5th Michigan Regimental Band

• Regimental Band of the 37th Georgia Infantry
  • This distinctive military brass band has appeared in movies and video documentaries and is a fixture at conventions, parades, cotillions, reenactments, and patriotic/civic ceremonies. The 37th's varied concert repertoire includes popular wartime tunes from both the South and the North and is performed in authentic mid-19th-century fashion on period wind and percussion instruments. Proceeds from recording sales go towards the preservation of traditional American military band music.

• The Blues and the Greys
  • A collection of solo piano improvisations based on the music of the Civil War and performed by Bill Carrothers

• The Blue and Gray in Black and White
  • Sparky and Rhonda Rucker offer a different take on the music of the War Between the States.

• Songs of America's Greatest Struggle
  • Original and period pieces from the War Between the States, written and performed by reenactor William Coleman

• John Hunt Morgan: A Southern Legend
  • Southern singer/songwriter David Ray Skinner has written and recorded a song cycle about the life and times of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan

• Second South Carolina String Band
  • The Second South Carolina String Band is one of the most active and popular Civil War camp bands around.

• The Americus Brass Band
  • One of the country's foremost period brass bands

• Native Ground Music
  • Wayne Erbsen's music cassettes and CD's are a staple in battlefield book stores across the country

• Jeannette Painter and Delbert Van Reeth
  • Piano, violin, and vocals

• Olde Towne Brass
  Olde Towne Brass is a group of musicians who perform in the manner of early American brass bands. They dress in period uniforms, perform on original instruments, and play original music from this era.

  Old Time Victrola Music On Cassette

  • Among the offerings on Mark Best's absolutely unique site are several cassettes of music from the War Between the States, including some 1913 50th Gettysburg reunion memorials and songs of the Old South

Music of the War Between the States