Songs From the Knoxville Project with Angela Easterling: A Musical Tale of a Southern Family's Resistance to the Confederacy
Original songs accompanied by guitar, resonator, banjo, and dobro trace a North Carolina Union loyalist’s perilous Civil War journey, interwoven with readings from her journal and a story of Southern resistance.
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