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This past week, we watched portions of Ken Burns' epic The Civil War on PBS. One of the tunes for the background music he picked sounded suspiciously like our featured song but knew it couldn't be the case as the song was not written until much, much later. It contained a haunting, irresistable beauty to it, though, and we wanted to share the song from which perhaps the melody in Burns' series was inspired.
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First, from 1950, here's Patti Page singing "The Tennessee Waltz":
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And now, just to update one of the most covered songs in American history, how about a nice slow descent into that mid-tempo hell known as Adult Contemporary? (Thanks, Boomers!)


Here's Bonnie Raitt and Norah Jones turn on the subject at hand: