Lullabayou: A Song History

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"Lullabayou" opens the song list of Karen Keane's Fingers Of Steel collection of the same name, and it carries a composer credit to Keane, as do all six titles that follow it.[1] The listing ranks its tunes among the most "beautiful, haunting melodies" ever composed for the mountain dulcimer, adding that they suit fingerstyle players and flatpickers alike.[1]

A tall blue earthenware vase decorated with stylized leaves and flowers

Newcomb Pottery, Vase, earthenware, 1902. Made in New Orleans and shown as a nod to Louisiana; it has no connection to the tune.

Keane comes from Shreveport, Louisiana, and in performance with John Keane she plays mountain dulcimer, Native American flute, ukulele and cajon.[2] The two count more than seventy years of teaching between them.[2] DulcimerDownloads lists four other books under her name, the three DulciFlute volumes and DulciWhistle, but the sources consulted here identify no recording of "Lullabayou" and say nothing about where its name came from.[1][2]

Our book that contains the song "Lullabayou"

Sources

  1. Fingers Of Steel: "Karen Keane, Lullabayou".
  2. DulcimerDownloads: "Karen Keane".
  3. Image: Newcomb Pottery, Vase, earthenware, 1902. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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