Personnel: Kathy Mattea, Richie Havens, Waylon Jennings (vocals, guitar); Kate McGarrigle (vocals, electric guitar); John Hartford (vocals, banjo, violin); Jay Ungar (vocals, banjo, fiddle); Evan Stover (vocals, fiddle); Anna McGarrigle (vocals, accordion, piano); Molly Mason (vocals, piano); Aisha Kahlil, Ysae M. Barnwell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Nitanju Bolade Casel (vocals, shekere); Yasmeen Graham (vocals, tambourine); Curtis Young, Evelyn Harris, Jesse Carr, Dane Lanken, Hoyt Axton, Kris Ballinger, Dale Ballinger, Margaret Bailey, Judy Collins, Lisa Silver, Martha Wainwright, Ronnie Gilbert, Rufus Wainwright, The Cluster Pluckers (vocals); Russ Barenberg (guitar, mandolin); Mark Howard, Barry Walsh, John Mock (guitar); William R. Cooley (acoustic guitar); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Craig Duncan and the Smoky Mountain Band (hammer dulcimer); Jamie Hartford, Stuart Duncan (mandolin); Matt Glaser (violin, fiddle); Joel Zifkin (violin); Steve Luck (trumpet); Jerry Bridges, Libby McLaren (piano); Jeff Hale (drums).
Audio Mixers: Johnny Rosen; Alan Silverman; Mike Zook.
Liner Note Authors: Peter Miller; Arthur Levy .
Recording information: Bear Tracks, Suffern, NY; Masterworks Studios, Fairfax, VA; Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY; Power Station, New York, NY; WDCN, Nashville, TN; West Point, NY.
Arrangers: Paul Murtha; John Hartford; Waylon Jennings; Bernice Johnson Reagon.
Actually an extension and improvement upon White Mansions, this collection features rock and folk stars doing Civil War songs, and all of it is well done. Songs of the Civil War is a good companion to the Dirt Band's Will the Circle Be Unbroken. ~ Bruce Eder
