Musicologist and tenor
Douglas Jimerson has recorded three
Abraham Lincoln-related discs for his own AmeriMusic label:
Abraham Lincoln Sings On!, Lincoln's Favorite Music, and this one,
Lincoln Portrait. In this enterprise,
Jimerson is joined by his
Civil War Comrades:
Bob Clayton, who plays banjo, mandolin, and guitar and sings; bugler
Jari Villanueva; and
Ellen Anderson, who primarily plays hammered dulcimer, a little mandolin, and contributes a pleasant, restrained backing vocal.
Lincoln is a good subject for recordings of historic American music as he loved music and there is plenty of documentation of his choices, preferences, and contact with musicians. Several of these pieces will remain familiar to Americans still, though -- apart from standard, public ceremonial pieces like "Hail to the Chief" and "Taps" -- generally through family and community singing rather than through anything heard in the mass media, unless one is a devotee of "A Prairie Home Companion."