Kentucky Music - tunes about the Commonwealth spanning over 200 years. Under Construction 

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The Liberty Song - 1768, origin of our state motto "United We Stand, Divided We Fall"

The Hunters of Kentucky - A tale of Kentuckians in New Orleans, c.1815

Clear the Track for Old Kentucky - A pro-Henry Clay song from the 1844 Presidential campaign

My Old Kentucky Home - by Stephen Collins Foster 1853, played here on a c.1855 banjo

Darling Nelly Gray  - by Benjamin R. Hanby 1856, performed here by the Allendale Melodians

The Kentucky Battle Song - a rare Confederate tune published in 1864

She Was Bred in Old Kentucky - 1898

The Death of Floyd Collins - by Vernon Dalhart, 1925

Blue Moon of Kentucky - by Bill Monroe

8 More Miles to Louisville - by Grandpa Jones

Kentucky Rain - by Elvis Presley

Muhlenberg County (Paradise) - by Roy Acuff

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