recordings by Bobby Horton:

Bobby Horton is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, music historian and seasoned performer. With thirty-plus years as a member of the musical/comedy group Three on a String, he has also produced and performed music for eight Ken Burns PBS films, two programs for the A&E Network, and nine films for the National Park Service, among others. He has performed his concert/lecture, "Songs and Stories from the Civil War," from coast to coast since 1985.

Residing in Birmingham, Alabama, Bobby Horton has contributed to many projects, including Ken Burns' specials: The Civil War, Baseball, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Frank Lloyd Wright. He has also contributed to the Talonsoft computer games Shiloh and Antietam. These and many, many other productions bear the talent of this established musician. Bobby Horton continues to contribute to documentary films, as well as playing live as a solo artist and with his band. His 14-volume series of music from The War Between the States has been acclaimed and recommended by publications and historical organizations throughout the United States and Europe, and has been featured at many National Battlefield Parks.

Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of the Apostle Islands
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. A Walk in the Forest
2. Stories to Tell
3. Land of Rest
4. Opus 10
5. Fiddlin' Anne/Red Iron Ore
6. Red Iron Ore/Melody 1-17-03
7. The Persia's Crew
8. Fiddlin' Annie
9. Driving Saw Logs on the Plover
10. Pristine
11. Bright Canaan/Interlude
12. Lady Owen's Delight
13. Apostles' #1
14. Opus 10
15. Beside Brown Waters
16. Stories to Tell

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Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of the Christmas Season
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. Deck The Halls
2. Oh Come All Ye Faithful
3. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
4. Here We Come A'Caroling
5. Coventry Carol

6. The First Noel
7. Joy to the World
8. The Christmas Hymn
9. Oh Come Emmanuel
10. Bring A Torch Jeanette Isabella
11. We Three Kings
12. Away In A Manger
13. Jingle Bells
14. Hark The Herald Angels Sing
15. Good King Wincheslas
16. What Child Is This?
17. The Boar¹s Head
18. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
19. Oh Come Little Children
20. Lo How A Rose
21. Masters In this Hall
22. The Holly and the Ivy
23. Angels We Have Heard On High
24. Hanukkah Song
25. Silent Night
26. We Wish You A Merry Christmas
27. Jesus Joy of Man's Desiring
28. The Hallelujah Chorus

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Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of the C.S.A., Volume 1
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. Everybody's Dixie
2. God Save the South
3. Maryland My Maryland
4. Rose of Alabama
5. All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight
6. Stonewall Jackson's Way
7. The Homespun Dress
8. Battle Cry of Freedom
9. The Yellow Rose of Texas
10. The Rebel Soldier
11. The Bonnie Blue Flag
12. Riding a Raid
13. Lorena
14. Twas at the Siege of Vicksburg
15. Home Sweet Home
16. Oh, I'm a Good Old Rebel
17. Long Ago
18. Dixie

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Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of the C.S.A., Volume 2
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. Wait for the Wagon
2. Virginia Marseillaise
3. Jine the Cavalry
4. Willie Boy
5. Evelina
6. For Bales
7. Stonewall's Requiem
8. Old Abe Lies Sick
9. Cumberland Gap
10. The Young Volunteer
11. John Hunt Morgan Song
12. On the Plains of Manassas
13. The Upidee Song
14. Rock of Ages/On Jordan's Stormy Banks
15. Kennesaw Line
16. Dixie (instrumental)

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Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of the C.S.A., Volume 3
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. Cheer Boys Cheer
2. God Save the Southern Land
3. Root Hog or Die
4. Somebody's Darling
5. The Reluctant Conscript
6. The Southern Soldier Boy
7. Goober Peas
8. Just Before the Battle Mother
9. The Captain With His Whiskers
10. Boys Keep Your Powder Dry
11. Mister Here's Your Mule
12. The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
13. Gay and Happy
14. Katy Wells
15. A Life on a Vicksburg Bluff
16. A Soldier's Grave
17. Wearing of the Gray
18. Dixie (instrumental)

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Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of the C.S.A., Volume 4
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. Dixie, the Land of King Cotton
2. March of the Southern Men
3. We Conquer or Die
4. The Soldier With a Wooden Leg
5. The Battle of Shiloh Hill
6. The Southern Soldier
7. Think of Your Head
8. Johnny is Gone for a Soldier
9. Soldier's Joy
10. Strike for the South
11. Melt the Bells
12. Richmond is a Hard Road to Travel
13. Pray, Maiden, Pray
14. The Brass Mounted Army
15. When Upon the Field of Glory
16. Short Rations (to the "Corn-fed" army of Tennessee)
17. Roll Alabama, Roll
18. Bonnie Blue Flag (instrumental)

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Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of the C.S.A., Volume 5
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. Ye Cavaliers of Dixie
2. The Soldier's Farewell
3. The Cross of the South
4. Old Abe's Lament
5. The North Carolina War Song
6. The Cavalier's Glee
7. The Bowld Sojer Boy
8. Do They Miss Me at Home?
9. The Kentucky Battle Song
10. The Infantry
11. John Harrolson
12. The Soldier's Suit of Gray
13. The South Shall Rise Up Free
14. General Butler
15. The Mother of the Soldier Boy
16. General Forrest, a Confederate
17. Hood's Old Brigade
18. The Conquered Banner

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Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of the C.S.A., Volume 6
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. God Will Defend the Right
2. God Save the South
3. Confederate Song
4. Our Boys are Gone
5. The Southron's Watchword
6. Annie Laurie
7. The Battle of Shiloh
8. I Love To Be A Soldier
9. Campfire Medley: Granny Does Your Dog Bite?/ Arkansas Traveler/ Old Joe Camp
10. Mother Is the Battle Over?
11. The Stars of Our Banner
12. The South
13. Take Me Home
14. Mother Would Comfort Me
15. Darling Nelly Gray
16. My Southern Land
17. The Capture of 17 of Co. H, 4th Texas Cavalry
18. O! No He'll Not Need Them Again
19. Southern Birthright

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Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of Faith: 1861-1865,
Volume 1
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. Salutation
2. Exultation
3. Amazing Grace
4. Pleyel's Hymn
5. He Leadeth Me
6. A Morning Song
7. What Wondrous Love
8. I Will Arise
9. Slane
10. Nearer My God to Thee
11. Poor Wayfaring Stranger
12. Rock of Ages
13. Your Mission
14. Promised Land
15. Rise My Soul
16. Morning Trumpet
17. How Firm a Foundation

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Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of Faith: 1861-1865,
Volume 2
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. Dunlap's Creek
2. Greenfields
3. Expression
4. Say Brothers
5. Land of Rest
6. Beach Spring
7. Rapture
8. Fairfield
9. Abide With Me
10. Pensive Dove
11. Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed
12. Bright Canaan
13. Joseph
14. When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
15. Calvary's Mountain
16. Evening
17. Come Thou Fount
18. Pisgah
19. Eternal Father Strong to Save
20. Amazing Grace (instrumental)

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Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of the Great Smoky Mountains
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. The Mystery and Majesty of the Mountains
2. Mountain Air
3. Ester
4. Sourwood Mountain
5. A Walk in the Forest
6. Billy in the Low Ground
7. Medly: The Foggy, Foggy Dew / The Red Haired Boy
8. Do Not I Love Thee, O! My Lord
9. Salutaion
10. Cluck Old Hen
11. Medley: The Trail of Tears / O'Carolyn's Farewell to Music
12. Cold, Frosty Morning
13. The High Mountains
14. Turkey in the Straw
15. Solitude
16. Shady Grove
17. Villulia
18. Whiskey Before Breakfast
19. The Last Rose of Summer

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Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of the Union Army,
Volume 1
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. Battle Cry of Freedom
2. The Army of the Free
3. New York Volunteer
4. May God Save the Union
5. We'll Fight for Uncle Abe
6. Pat Murphy of the Irish Brigade
7. Marching Along
8. The Vacant Chair
9. The Why and Wherefore
10. We Are Coming Father Abraham
11. Grafted Into the Army
12. Weeping Sad and Lonely
13. Kingdom Coming
14. Take Your Gun and Go John
15. Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
16. Good-bye, Old Glory
17. Battle Hymn of the Republic (instrumental version)

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Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of the Union Army,
Volume 2
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. The Battle Hymn of the Republic
2. The Girl I Left Behind Me
3. Johnny is My Darling
4. Aura Lea
5. Clear the Tracks
6. Lincoln and Liberty
7. The Army Bean
8. Brother Green
9. The Invalid Corps
10. The Flag of Columbia
11. What's the Matter?
12. Garryowen
13. Just Before the Battle Mother
14. Corporal Schnapps
15. We Are Marching on to Richmond
16. Virginia's Bloody Soil
17. When Johnny Comes Marching Home

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Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of the Union Army,
Volume 3
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. Stand Up for Uncle Sam
2. God Save the Nation
3. To Canaan
4. Billy Barlow
5. Who Will Care for Mother Now
6. De Day Ob Liberty
7. God Bless My Boy Tonight
8. Skedaddle
9. Vicksburg is Taken
10. Hard Times in Dixie
11. Faded Coat of Blue
12. Union Dixie
13. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
14. Come In Out of the Draft
15. When This Cruel War is Ended
16. Hard Crackers
17. The Fall of Charleston
18. The Songs We Sang Upon the Old Camp Ground

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Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of the Union Army,
Volume 4
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. Abraham's Daughter
2. The Union Volunteers
3. Rally Round The Flag
4. Brave Boys Are They
5. High Toned Southern Gentleman
6. The Grant Pill
7. Bury The Brave Where They Fall
8. He's Gone To The Arms Of Abraham
9. Children Of The Battlefield
10. How Are You Conscript?
11. Our Comrade Has Fallen
12. The Blue Tailed Fly
13. Never Forget The Dear Ones
14. The Consolidation Song
15. Poor Kitty Popcorn
16. Auld Lang Syne
17. The Star Spangled Banner

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Bobby Horton /
Homespun Songs of Vicksburg
[compact disc]

Track List:
1. The Battle Cry of Freedom
2. The Bonnie Blue Flag
3. Vicksburg Is Taken
4. The Siege
5. Hard Times
6. When Johnny Comes Marching Home
7. Brother Bryan
8. Cheer Boys Cheer
9. Brother Green
10. Our Comrade Has Fallen
11. Poor Wayfaring Stranger
12. The Girl I left Behind Me
13. Twas At the Siege of Vicksburg
14. The Rebel Soldier
15. Kingdom Coming
16. Home Sweet Home
17. July 4, 1863
18. Battle Hymn of the Republic
19. Just Before the Battle Mother
20. Garyowen
21. Lincoln & Liberty
22. Take Your Gun and Go, John
23. Rally Round the Flag
24. The Flag of Columbia
25. Abrahams Daughter
26. The Vacant Chair
27. Taps
28. Lorena
29. The Southern Soldier Boy
30. Auld Lang Syne
31. The Star Spangled Banner

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