U.S. holiday celebrated on the last Monday in May. It honors those who have died in war. Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Day because it was a time set aside to honor the nation's Civil War dead by decorating their graves.
All gave some and some gave all.
Elana James \ Hey Beautiful
Eric Bogle \ No Man's Land & Hallowed Ground
Robin & Linda Williams \ 50,000 Names
Si Kahn / Memorial Day / Thanksgiving / Strictly Country
Meg Hutchinson \ Song For Jeffrey Lucey
John Flynn's "Semper Fi" & "Dover"
Lincolns Man- Ben Bedford
American Soldier- Janet Bates
Glory Days- Teena Moyer
1863- Sally Shuffield
Sgt. MacKenzie- Clan An Drumma (Joe Kilna MacKenzie)
Jim Salestrom - After the War
David Ball "Riding With Private Malone"
James McMurtry - "Memorial Day"
Jason Eady - "Battlefields"
Joe Pug - "Bury Me Far From My Uniform"
Tom Paxton: The Unknown (Politics -- Live), Flying Fish 70486
Richard Shindell: Reunion Hill (Reunion Hill), Shanachie 8027
[songs I've played and liked in recent years]
Dixie Chicks\ Travelin' Soldier\ Home\ Columbia (Viet Nam)
John Wright with Junior Blanckenship and James Price\ Soldier's Boy\ Promises\ Self (Viet Nam)
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard\ Two Soldiers\ Hazel & Alice\ Rounder (Civil War)
John Lee Hooker\ Decoration Day Blues\ The Classic Early Years 1948 - 1951\ JSP
Woody Guthrie\ Sinking of the Reuben James\ That's Why We're Marching (VA)\ Smithsonian/Folkways
[other good ones]
Michael Troy\ The Last Day of May\ Whispers in the Wind
Joel Mabus: "Touch a Name on the Wall" ("The Naked Truth", Fossil)
Normandy Orchards \ TOM LEWIS \ Mixed Cargo \ Borealis
Jack Kid - Requiem in Blue and Gray
Jack Kid - Missing
Truckstop Souvenir\ Memorial Day\ Leave Nothing Behind
Carol Noonan: Medal of Mine, Johnny Has Gone for A Soldier, War That Can't Be Won, In Flanders Fields (Somebody's Darling - Songs of War, Loss, and Remembrance), self
Clarence Bucaro: Wartime Prayer (Sense of Light), Rounder
From: Ken Batista
JEAN RITCHIE & DOC WATSON - Soldier's Joy
Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson at Folk City - Smithsonian Folkways
JEAN RITCHIE & DOC WATSON - East Virginia
Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson at Folk City - Smithsonian Folkways
E.C. BALL - Warfare
High Atmosphere: Ballads & Banjo Tunes from Virginia & North Carolina
Smithsonian Folkways
JIM HENDRICKS - Down Yonder
Appalachian Mountain Homecoming - Maple Street (M)
LEE MONROE PRESNELL - My Sweet Soldier Boy
Nothing Seems Better to Me: The Warner Collection, Vol. II - Appleseed
FRANK PROFFITT - Cluck Old Hen
Frank Proffitt of Reese, North Carolina - Folk-Legacy
REBECCA KING JONES - Captain, O Captain
Nothing Seems Better to Me: The Warner Collection, Vol. II - Appleseed
FRANK PROFFITT - Poor Soldier
Nothing Seems Better to Me: The Warner Collection, Vol. II - Appleseed
HOWIE BURSEN - Hull's Victory/Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine/The Dying Ranger
Banjo Manikin - Folk-Legacy
NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS - The Battleship of Maine
The Early Years, 1958-1962 - Smithsonian Folkways
THE CARTER FAMILY - The Dying Soldier
Worried Man Blues, 1930 - Rounder
HANK PENNY & HIS RADIO COWBOYS - Army Blues
Roots N' Blues: The Retrospective, Disc Four - Columbia/Legacy
PETE SEEGER - The Willing Conscript
Selections from The Best of Broadside, 1962-1988 - Smithsonian Folkways
JOSEF MARAIS w/ HIS BUSHVELD BAND - Marching to Pretoria
Folk Song America: A 20th Century Revival, Vol. 1 - Sony
MIKE SCOTT - Blackberry Blossom
Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Maple Street (M)
EMMYLOU HARRIS - Mary Danced With Soldiers
Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 2 - MCA
"YANKEE" JOHN GALUSHA - Irish 69th
Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still, The Warner Collection, Vol. 1 -
Appleseed
DAVID KINCAID - The Irish Volunteer
The Irish Volunteer: Songs of the Irish Union Soldier, 1861-1865 - Ryko
(R)
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN - Legend of the Rebel Soldier
The Early Rebel Recordings, 1962-1971 - Rebel
BOB HEYER - Battle of Shiloh Hill
Close to the Heart - Table Rock
JAY UNGAR - Ashokan Farewell
The Civil War Original Soundtrack - Elektra Nonesuch (M)
JOHN HARTFORD - Lorena
Songs of the Civil War - Columbia
ACOUSTIC SHADOWS OF THE BLUE & GRAY - Vacant Chair
Echoes Through Time...A Campfire Review - self
HOYT AXTON - The Yellow Rose of Texas
Songs of the Civil War - Columbia
JAY UNGAR/PAUL ROEBLING & DAVID McCULLOUGH - Ashokan Farewell/Sullivan
Ballou Letter - The Civil War Original Soundtrack - Elektra Nonesuch
LEARNED HAND - Iron Merrimac
A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings - Rounder
BOB CARLIN - Far in the Mountain
Banging & Sawing (M)
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK - Sojourner's Battle Hymn
Still on the Journey - Earth Beat!
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Harriet Tubman/Steal Away
Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad - Appleseed
LEE MURDOCK - Perry's Victory on Lake Erie
The Lost Lake Sailors - Depot
ROBIN BULLOCK - Banish Misfortune
The Lightning Field - Azalea City (M)
FRED McDOWELL - Germany Blues
Southern Journey, Vol. 3: 61 Highway Revisited - Rounder
MICHAEL JEROME BROWNE - Wartime Blues
Michael Jerome Browne - Bros
HARRY LEWMAN - Fannin Street
Gonna Be the Death of You - self
SCOTT AINSLIE - Parchmans Farm Blues
Terraplane - Cattail
ERNIE HAWKINS - Broke Down Engine
Bluesified - Say Mo' Music
LEADBELLY, TERRY McGHEE and DUPREE - National Defense Blues
That's Why We're Marching: World War II & The American Folk Song Movement -
Smithsonian Folkways
BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON - When the War Was On
Great Blues Guitarists: String Dazzlers - Columbia/Legacy
WOODY GUTHRIE - Sinking of the Rueben James
That's Why We're Marching: World War II & The American Folk Song Movement -
Smithsonian Folkways
PAT DONOHUE - Mudslide
American Guitar - Bluesky (M)
BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON - Wartime Blues
King of the Country Blues - Yazoo
ALMANAC SINGERS/PETE SEEGER - Ballad of October 16
That's Why We're Marching: World War II & The American Folk Song Movement -
Smithsonian Folkways
LEW STONE - The White Cliffs of Dover
We'll Meet Again: The Love Songs of World War II - MCA
LEW STONE - When They Sound the All Clear
We'll Meet Again: The Love Songs of World War II - MCA
THE TONY RICE UNIT - Sally Goodin
Unit of Measure - Rounder (M)
KATE RUSBY & KATHRYN ROBERTS - The Queen and the Soldier
Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts - Compass
TIM ERICKSEN - I Wish the Wars Were All Over
Tim Ericksen - Appleseed
ADRIAN LEGG - Ragged Nail
Waiting for a Dancer - Red House (M)
STEVE TILSTON & MAGGIE BOYLE - Dark Days of War
All Under the Sun - Flying Fish
RORY McLEOD - Farming Woman's War
Travelling Home - Cooking Vinyl
STEPHEN FEARING - Man of War
Industrial Lullaby - Red House
CASEY NEILL TRIO - May Morning Dew
Portland West - Appleseed
ERIN McKEOWN - The Door
Queen of Quiet - Signature Sounds (C)
ADRIAN LEGG - Bayou Blues
Waiting For a Dancer - Red House (M)
RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT - Soldier's Last Letter
Kerouac's Last Dream - Appleseed
RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT, JOSE FELICIANO, ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART BILL MILLER
& DAR WILLIAMS - This Land is Your Land - Rockin' Patriots - Rhino
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON - The Pilgrim: Chapter 33
The Austin Sessions - Atlantic (R)
JOHN PRINE - Sam Stone
Souvenirs - Oh Boy (R)
CATHY FINK - Coming Home
Doggone My Time - Sugar Hill
PAT DONOHUE - Welcome Home
American Guitar - Bluesky (M)
RANDY NEWMAN - Follow The Flag
This Land is Your Land - Rockin' Patriots - Rhino (R)(I)
JOHN GORKA - Semper Fi
Jack's Crows - Highstreet (I)
STEVE GOODMAN - My Old Man
No Big Surprise: The Steve Goodman Anthology - Red Pajamas
NINA GERGER w/ GREG BROWN - Kate's Guitar
Not Before Noon - Goatscape Music
MICKEY NEWBURY - An American Trilogy
It Might as Well Be the Moon - Mountain Retreat
NINA GERBER - Late in the Night
Not Before Noon - Goatscape Music (M)
DAVID RODRIGUEZ - The True Cross
The True Cross - DejaDisc
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Homecoming Time
Storied Ground - Rounder Select
RICHARD SHINDELL - The Things I Have Seen
Blue Divide - Shanachie
NINA GERBER w/ LUCY KAPLANSKY - Workin' in Corners
Not Before Noon - Goatscape Music
PAT DONOHUE - The Star Spangled Banner
American Guitar - BlueSky (M)
IRIS DeMENT - There is a Wall in Washington
The Way I Should - Warner Brothers
STEVE GOODMAN - The Ballad of Penny Evans
The Original Steve Goodman - Buddha Records
TOWNES VAN ZANDT - Ira Hayes
Road Songs - Sugar Hill
PHIL OCHS - Remember Me
The Broadside Tapes 1 - Smithsonian Folkways
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