The Change Will Do Me Good: A Song History

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"The Change Will Do Me Good" is among the fifteen DAD-tuned mountain dulcimer pieces in Tom McConnell's Music From The Heart, a book from Airway Publishing that its DulcimerDownloads listing calls "a book of original music" from McConnell.[1] Buyers of the download receive the full 44-page book, each piece as its own PDF, and an MP3 recording of every tune.[1] According to his DulcimerDownloads artist page, McConnell is a hobbyist who plays mountain dulcimer as well as guitar, ukulele and some bass; he labels his music "acoustic folk," though the page notes that it also draws on Americana, blues, bluegrass and a little jazz.[2] Because the listing credits the collection as a whole rather than each title, McConnell's authorship of this piece is inferred from that description, and the sources consulted here give no date, story or recording for it beyond the book's own MP3.[1]

Watercolor of a butterfly with green upper wings and pale blue lower wings with red spots

Mary Altha Nims, Butterfly, watercolor, 1800s. A butterfly, shown loosely for the idea of change in the title; it has no connection to the tune.

Our book that contains the song "The Change Will Do Me Good"

Sources

  1. Tom McConnell: "Music From The Heart".
  2. DulcimerDownloads: "Tom McConnell".
  3. Image: Mary Altha Nims, Butterfly, watercolor, 1800s. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

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