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The 13th Album Released
"American Landscapes" is the band's 13th album to be released.
Available at most Tuolumne County specialty shops such as Beat Music & Sonora Music
(Sonora), Railtown 1897 (Jamestown), Village Tunes (Twain Harte), Millers Carpenter Shop
(Columbia), Ironstone Vineyards (Murphys), Sierra Railroad (Oakdale).
The title reflects the message of this project. Americana Music is not new to
this folk band. For over 15 years the band has been performing and recording
American Roots Music with the core of it in Celtic, Jazz, Bluegrass, and ballad folk.
Themes have also included Maritime, Railroad, and Mining History. The
previous band album, "Into the Arms of the Sea", was based on West
Coast Maritime History.
The concept of this album is telling history while being entertaining. Most
of the works on the project are original and pay tribute to interesting people and
stories. Songs include ballads about Buster Keaton, Teddy Roosevelt, Davy Crockett,
Dennis & Carl Wilson (Beach Boys), and even Smokey Bear. Story songs include,
"The Lady Be Good", the famous B-24 bomber that was lost in the desert
in 1943. Also featured is "The Alabama", a maritime classic about
the Civil War Raider and a song called, "Promontory", about the
location of the latest spike on the Transcontinental Railroad.
Every song on American Landscape tells a little piece of history. Over two
hundreds years of music styles and instrument types were featured in the making of
this project. Traditional and known songs featured are "Summertime",
"Dixie", "O Susannah", "New York Gals", and "Devils
Dream".
To hear a song sample, click on any song
title below that is followed by 
1. New York Girls (3:36)(
Traditional American Sea Chantey -1850's. When the Polka was first introduced to
America, it was considered quite scandalous by many!
MP3 Audio
2. Teddy (4:18)
Words & Music: Patrick Karnahan ASCAPŠ - Lead Vocal & Accordion Solo Steve
McArthur Theodore Roosevelt was one of America's great visionaries. Full of strength
and heart. He lead his country into a new age with guts and glory!
3. I Was Davey Crockett (When I was eight years old)(3:05)
Words & Music: Richard RestivoŠ - Lead Vocal: Richard Restivo - Fiddle Solo: Dave
Rainwater A rememberance of a boyhood hero.
4. Kansas Farewell (4:29)
Words & Music: Patrick Karnahan ASCAPŠ - Melodion Solo: Patrick Karnahan -
String Arrangements & Orchestration: Leroy Bumgarner. Inspired by
the countless generations of families that worked the Kansas Wheat Harvest.
5. Buster Keaton(4:15)
Words & Music: Patrick Karnahan - Lead Vocal: Jim Nelson - Pipe Organ & Piano
Solos: Leroy Bumgarner - French Horn Solo: John Baker. A famous silent film actor
that created some of the most creative motion pictures. With the coming of sound
pictures he was forgotten by many!
6. OH Susanah! (2:51)
(Traditional written by Stephen Foster) - Lead Vocal: Richard Restivo - Fiddle Solos:
David Rainwater - Banjo Solos: Jim Nelson - Melodion Solo: Patrick Karnahan.
One of the most popular songs of the 19th Century. A favorite of the California Gold
Miners who added their own verses.
7. Alaska (The Northern
Starlight) (3:28)
Words & Music: Patrick Karnahan ASCAPŠ - Lead Vocal: Jim Nelson - French Horn: John
Baker The Great 49th State, the last frontier and land of big
dreams. "Nothing like it anywhere on earth!".
8. Promontory ( 3:25)
Music: Patrick Karnahan ASCAPŠ - Trumpet Solo 1st: Patrick Karnahan - Trumpet Solo
2nd: Richard Restivo - Marimba Solo: Leroy Bumgarner. North of the Great Salt Lake,
Promontory Summit became the site of one of America's greatest achievements
"The Transcontinental Railroad".
9. Carl, Dennis, George, & John ( 3:13)
Words & Music: Patrick Karnahan ASCAPŠ - Lead Vocals: Steve McArthur, Richard
Restivo, & Patrick Karnahan - Harmonica Solo: Patrick Karnahan. The Wilson
Brothers from Hawthorne, California and two friends from Liverpool, England named Lennon
& Harrison, would change music history.
10. Dixie Land (3:03)
Traditional written by Dan Emmett. - Lead Vocal: Richard Restivo - Fiddle: David Rainwater
- Banjo: Jim Nelson. Composed by an Irish American in New York City in 1859. Dan
Emmett was quite surprised to find out his song became the anthem of the South.
11.The Alabama (2:55)
Traditional Maritime Sea Chantey. -Lead Vocal: Jim Nelson. The story of the famous
Confederate Raider, Alabama and how she met her doom in 1864.
12. Summertime (6:18)
Writers: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward WB MUSIC CORP. - Lead
Vocal & Piano: Steve McArthur - Sax Solo: Rod Harris - Trumpet Intro & Solo:
Patrick Karnahan.
13.The Lady Be Good
(5:09)
Words & Music: Patrick Karnahan ASCAPŠ - Lead Vocal: Jim Nelson - French
Horn Solo: John Baker. In 1943, the B-24 Bomber, the "Lady Be Good" took
off on a mission to Naples. In 1959, the plane was found in the Libyan Desert. Years
would pass and all but one of the crewman's bodies would be found. In memory of
Vernon Moore, still lost!
Click on the Music Sheet Button below to view the music sheet created by Patrick
Karnahan.
14.Smokey (Requiem for a Bear) (2:14)
Words & Music: Patrick Karnahan ASCAPŠ - Lead Vocal: Patrick Karnahan -
Piano Solo: Leroy Bumgarner. The most celebrated symbol of the United States Forest
Service and one of the msot famous Black Bears of New Mexico History.
Click on the Music Sheet Button below to view the music sheet created by Patrick
Karnahan.
15. Summer Weather (3:36)
Words & Music: Patrick Karnahan ASCAPŠ - Lead Vocal: Patrick Karnahan -
Guitar & Backing Vocals: Greg E Noll - Drums & Backing Vocals: Jim Anderson -
Bass: Bob Hufman* - Organ: Leroy Bumgarner ("Crazy Ivan appears courtes of AXS
Records") Inspired by the California Surf Sound of the 60's.
16. Once We We Were Young (In Memory of Ken Darby and Lloyd Jones Jr.) (2:41)
Music: Patrick Karnahan ASCAPŠ - Piano Arrangement & Solo: Leroy
Bumgarner.
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