My Old Kentucky Home-Glenn Weiser, fingerstyle guitar & harmonica

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin ignited an uproar in the North over slavery. Stephen Foster had originally entitled this song "Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night," but fearful of alienating Southerners, he changed the title before its publication in 1853. The much beloved composition grew in popularity, and in 1928 the Commonwealth of Kentucky adopted it as its official song.
It may surprise you to know that Frederick Douglass lauded Foster’s blackface minstrel songs, writing that they "awaken sympathies for the slave, in which antislavery principles take root, grow, and flourish."
"My Old Kentucky Home" is performed here by Glenn Weiser on a 1926 0-21 Martin guitar and diatonic harmonica. For information about Glenn’s CDs, guitar and harmonica books, and virtual private music lessons, visit wwwDOTcelticguitarmusicDOTcom