ROBERT E.LEE REMEMBERED

JIMERSON (Artist), DOUGLAS (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 1, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: AMERIMUSIC
• ASIN: B00000HYAH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #433,237 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bonnie Blue Flag, song

2. Maryland, My Maryland!

3. The Yellow Rose Of Texas, song

4. Woodman, Spare That Tree

5. Juanita (Books of the Band of the 26th N. C. Regiment, C. S. A.)

6. Green Grow The Lilacs

7. Lorena, waltz

8. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming for vocal quartet

9. Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep, song

10. How Firm a Foundation

11. The Bluebells of Scotland

12. The Storming Of Monterey

13. Joys That We've Tasted

14. Polly Hopkins and Tommy Tompkins

15. Drummer Boy of Shiloh, for voice & piano

16. Roll, Alabama, Roll

17. Weeping, Sad and Lonely, for voice & keyboard

18. The Vacant Chair

19. Goober Peas, song for voice & piano

20. All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight for voice & piano

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ROBERT E. LEE COMES TO LIFE!, January 1, 2001

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cjerson (Reading, PA) - See all my reviews

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Jimerson has created a recording that gives the listener a wonderful sampling of the music Robert E. Lee would have heard during his lifetime, in a true period style. As a regular visitor to Lee's birthplace, I am impressed by and enjoyed the results of Jimerson's historical research at the Robert E. Lee archives at Stratford Hall.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not real great, November 22, 2000

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Impecunious fan (Lakeville, MN USA) - See all my reviews

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Aside from the competent performances of Douglas Jimerson and Jill Worley, the singers and musicians on this CD are rather poor. But the recording is worse - poor quality, and done in such a way as to emphasize defects in the presentation. Whenever David Calib comes in with the drums, everything else is drowned out. Did they put the mike _in_ the drum? Sounds like it. The best numbers were those with Jimerson soloing with only a piano backup. It was therefore very disappointing to hear "All Quiet Along the Potomac" as a trumpet/drum instrumental. All this is not to mention the quibble that the album's connection with Robert E. Lee is a bit strained. Aside from "How Firm a Foundation," most of the songs have very little to do with Lee aside from the fact that his family might conceivably have had the sheet music lying around the house, or they were popular during/after the wars he took part in. Be that as it may, I'm sorry to say that three-quarters of the CD is barely listenable.

5.0 out of 5 stars A most satisfying recital, November 30, 2011

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Larry VanDeSande - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ROBERT E.LEE REMEMBERED (Audio CD)

Of all the CD collections of Civil War-era songs I know, this one featuring tenor Douglas Jimerson is the most satisfying to me, mainly because the selections on the concert as so good. In comparison to the similar collection from Jimerson et al based on Abraham Lincoln's favorite music, the Robert E. Lee selections are more tuneful, more exciting and make a more satisfying hour of listening over and over again.

Among the better songs here are the first two -- the clarion calls of the South in the Civil War: "Bonnie Blue Flag" and "Maryland My Maryland" -- the heart-tugging "Woodman Spare That Tree" and the always humorous "Goober Peas," a paean to the staple food given to the South's soldiers late in the war: Georgia peanuts. Former President Jimmy Carter, who was a peanut farmer prior to his political career, must be proud of this tune.

Hearing Jimerson's tenor would make anyone proud to be a member of the South after hearing this collection of wonderful songs from the middle 1800s. The criticisms the other reviewer offers about the drums drowning out the voices in one song is credible but any idea that the voices and choir used here are less than professional is nonsense.

These performances are done in a style perfect for the material. They consistently exude an authenticity lost by slicker outfits that try to recreate the era such as this collection from professional musicians in U.S. military choirs. While professionally done and recorded, it is sung so perfectly and without personality that a computer might as well have done the work. Give me the flesh, blood, fire and lightning of Jimerson and his cohorts any day in work like this.