Hi everyone, here is our weekly Suggested Listening and Viewing post; featuring ten songs and two streaming video recommendations, one from a mainstream service and the other from Kanopy, the library’s free to access streaming service (all you need is a library card!).
First the songs, this week we’re focusing on songs that celebrate the autumn harvest, in keeping with it being the autumn season when the, hopefully bountiful, crops have been gathered in and stored.
Barley by Lizz Wright
Found on the Album: Grace (2017)
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Cornbread And Butterbeans by Caroline Chocolate Drops
Found on the Album: Genuine Negro Jig (2010)
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Crawfish Fiesta by Professor Longhair
Found on the Album: Crawfish Fiesta (1980)
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The Harvest Home (Traditional Irish) by 96 Production
Found on the EP: Harvest Home (2017)
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Hoe Emma Hoe by unknown singers
Found on the Album: N/A
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The Farmer Is The Man (Who Feeds Us All) by Pete Seeger
Found on the Album: American Industrial Ballads (1992)
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The Farmer’s Song by Murray Mclauchlan
Found on the Album: Songs of the Street (2007)
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The Field Behind The Plow by Stan Rogers
Found on the Album: The Very Best of Stan Rogers (2011)
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Beans and Cornbread by Louis Jordan
Found on the Album: The Best of Louis Jordan (1975)
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Hoe-Down by Aaron Copland
Found on the Album: 4 Dance Episodes from Rodeo: IV. Hoe-Down. Allegro (1970)
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Second The videos:
A new title available through one of the usual U.S. streaming services, followed by a Kanopy title that you can check out with your library card and stream on-demand.
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The Mainstream Stream of the Week
Train Dreams (2025) (Netflix)
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And the Kanopy Stream of the Week
(A title available to library card holders)
Chautauqua at 150 (2025)
https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/15340313
Trailer
https://wyntonmarsalis.org/videos/view/chautauqua-at-150-wynton-marsalis-all-rise-trailer
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Have a great weekend!
Linda Reimer, SSCL
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Information on the four library catalogs
The Digital Catalog aka Libby: https://stls.overdrive.com/
The Digital Catalog, is an online catalog containing eBooks, eAudiobooks, and digital magazines. You can use your library card and checkout content on a PC; you can also use the companion app, Libby, to access titles on your mobile devices; so you can enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks on the go!
All card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can check out items from the Digital Catalog.
And The Digital Catalog/Libby features titles that may be checked out via the one-copy-one-user lending model, just like print books.
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Hoopla Catalog: https://www.hoopladigital.com/
The Hoopla Catalog features on demand checkouts of eBooks, eAudiobooks, comic books, albums, movies and TV shows. Patron checkout limit is 10 items per month.
Hoopla is a Southeast Steuben County Library service available to all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders.
The Hoopla companion app, also called Hoopla is available for mobile devices, smart TVs & media streaming players.
Titles in the Hoopla Catalog are available to be checked out on-demand by all library card holders, with the caveat of being able to check out a maximum of ten titles per month, per card.
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Kanopy Catalog: https://www.kanopy.com/en
The Kanopy Catalog features thousands of streaming videos available on demand.
The Kanopy Catalog is available for all Southern Tier Library System member library card holders, including all Southeast Steuben County Library card holders!
You can access the Kanopy Catalog through a web browser, or download the app to your phone, tablet or media streaming player (i.e. Roku, Google or Fire TV).
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StarCat: The catalog of physical/traditional library materials: https://starcat.stls.org
Card holders of all Southern Tier Library System member libraries can access StarCat to search for and request materials available at libraries through out the Southern Tier Library System.
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