WAYNE ERBSEN (19th Century) Erbsen, banjo player, singer and a lifelong collector of historic American music, with banjos, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, Jews harp, etc.

Ballads & Songs of the Civil War
A collection of American Civil War music from both sides performed on historic instruments, great obscure hits like I Can Whip the Scoundrel. - CD $15

Battlefield Ballads of the Civil War - More popular tunes from the AMerican Civil War - CD $15.00

The Home Front - A collection of Civil War music from those who stayed home, sentimental, patriotic, runaway slaves, etc.. Cassette insert has song words. 13 instrumentals, 4 vocals. Kingdom Coming,Rebel Soldier, My Old Kentucky Home, Wild Horses at Stony Point, etc. - CD $15

Love Songs of the Civil War - Darling Nelly Gray, Sweet Sunny South, Sweet Evalina, Faded Coat of Blue, and others - CD $15.00

Southern Soldier Boy - 16 authentic tunes of the war Between the States - CD $15.00

BOB FLESHER & DR. HORSEHAIR'S OLD-TIME MINSTRELS (19th Century minstrel/old-time banjo) Bob Flesher builds authentic minstrel reproduction banjos, teaches, and performs with Dr. Horsehair's Old-Time Minstrels, a string band playing minstrel music of the 1840s-1870s, in authentic period attire. With banjo, bones, fiddle and percussion.

The Civil War Banjo - 22 original songs played in the "stroke" style on two original Civil War era banjos, with bones, fiddle and tambourine. Bob Flesher, banjo; John Cahill "Mr. Bones", bones; Toby Denham, fiddle; Matt Flesher, percussion. Definitely toe-tapping. - CD $15.00

Minstrel Banjo of the Civil War and Antebellum Period - 18 minstrel songs played in the "stroke" style on three original Civil War era banjos, an 1850 Fred Mathers with gut strings and calfskin head, a George Teed banjo built between 1862 and 1864, and a bass banjo, probably 1860s era. - CD $15.00

Oldtime Clawhammer Banjo - 12 banjo tunes from the 8 time Galax banjo champion, Bob Flesher - CD $15.00

Wizard Oil - Humorous and raucous minstrel songs of the 1840s-1850s. Hear an outrageous medicine show routine, or about the difficulty of going courting with an old grey Mule. - CD $15.00

MARK GARDNER & THE MULESKINNERS (19th Century)

Songs of the Santa Fe Trail and the Far West - Well documented tunes and instruments, and in authentic playing styles, from the Santa Fe Trail, the Mexican War and Gold Rush, with banjo, bones, vocals, fiddle, parlour guitar. - CD $15