With My Banjo On My Knee... The Banjo Songs of Stephen Foster includes some of the first and most popular songs written for this evocative instrument. As well as the complete lyrics to each song and an extensive bibliography, there are also historical notes that describe the meaning of the songs, their place in history, the significance and influence of the musicians who first performed them. The included CD contains demonstration recordings of each arrangement, performed on solo minstrel banjo.

• Stephen Foster & The Banjo: A Musical Transformation
• The American Songwriter
• Dreaming Of Minstrels
• The Story And Spirit Of The Antebellum Banjo
• I Like Dat Good Old Song
• A Song Like No Other
• The Second-Prize Winner
• Two Cents A Copy
• The Celebratory Slave
• A Dulcem Melody
• The Enchantment Of Doo-Dah
• The Sold Away Slave
• Death Up North
• The Master Storyteller
• The Beginning Of Melancholy
• A Catching, Melodic Itch
• An Enduring Stereotype
• The Intolerable Burden
• The Yearn...