How I Try: A Song History

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"How I Try" is one of fifteen pieces in Tom McConnell's Music From The Heart, a mountain dulcimer collection that its DulcimerDownloads listing describes as "a book of original music" by McConnell, with every piece, this one included, set in DAD tuning.[1] The book is published by Airway Publishing, and the download contains the 44-page book, a separate PDF for each piece, and an MP3 recording of each one.[1] On his DulcimerDownloads artist page McConnell appears as a hobbyist on mountain dulcimer, guitar, ukulele and a little bass, whose self-described acoustic folk leans on Americana, blues, bluegrass and, to a small degree, jazz.[2]

Etching of two men bent over in an open field, driving long-handled spades into the earth

Jean-François Millet, The Diggers, etching, 1855–56. Shown for its picture of hard effort; it has no connection to the tune.

The listing does not give a composer for each title, so the attribution to McConnell rests on its description of the book as a whole.[1] Beyond that, the sources consulted here give no date or story for "How I Try" and mention no recording of it apart from the one that comes with the book.[1][2]

Our book that contains the song "How I Try"

Sources

  1. Tom McConnell: "Music From The Heart".
  2. DulcimerDownloads: "Tom McConnell".
  3. Image: Jean-François Millet, The Diggers, etching, 1855–56. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

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