If you’ve ever had aspirations to play in an old-time string band, you know it: “Ashokan Farewell,” the iconic lament featured over and over in Ken Burns’s Civil War documentary. Like the music of Leadbelly and The Carter Family, it’s a melody that seems to have been unearthed from America’s earliest hard times. You can almost see a Union soldier picking along the road, his clothes tattered, improvising the song on the company fiddle.
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There was a remarkable segment on a fairly recent "Louie" (Louis C.K.'s creative series) where Louie walks into a "Back in Time" booth, dresses in Civil War garb, andactually goes into the past. He walks around this surreal world - passing a fiddler playing "Ashokan Farewell" - a remarkable sequence made even more special because the fiddler was Jay Ungar. It was a magical moment of tv.
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