Příběhy písní 3 – Bystrov Michal (2015)

The first two parts of the trilogy Stories of Songs were published in 2009 and 2011. In the third part, Michal Bystrov also follows the trails of songs whose original meaning, fates, or authors have long been forgotten. Based on verified facts, he describes as thoroughly and truthfully as possible the history of their creation, compares all known theories, points out centuries-old mistakes, and depicts the environments and situations in which the individual songs were born. Are you interested in who Stagger Lee was, how the popular hits Southern Squadron (Montgomery), Peanuts, and Drnová Chajda came to be, whether the 'dear' Nelly Gray lived or not, who wrote the ballad about Jesse James, what the history of the songs Once We Will Go On and Stand for Your Truth is, what all W. C. Handy, the father of blues, composed, who sang the lullaby Irene, Go to Sleep to Lead Belly, the king of the twelve-string guitar, and where the song about the cannonier Jabůrka was born? You will find the answers in this book. Contents: Introductory Quote, Jailer, Bring Me Water, Stagger Lee, Careless Love, Hoochie Coochie Man, Darling Nelly Gray, Just Before The Battle, Mother, Goober Peas, Little Old Sod Shanty On The Claim, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, When The Saints Go Marching In, Many Thousand Gone / Blowin’ In The Wind / We Shall Overcome, Which…