FDN LXIII is a special episode focusing on shape note singing in the United States. It is based around two interviews conducted this year with Howe Pearson and Sasha Suczyk and looks at the history and evolution of shape note singing in North America, as well as various cultural and social aspects of the tradition.

Tracklist

NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – I Walked Abroad
Wootten Family – Ortonville
Cork Sacred Harp Singers – Tribulation
Lee Family – While Sorrows Encompass Me Round (Tune Skeleton of Idumea)
Northampton Harmony – Despair
Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton – And Am I Born To Die?
Shenandoah Harmony Singers – Buonaparte
Frank Harte – The Isle of Saint Helena
The Doc Watson Family – The Lone Pilgrim
Sacred Harp Singers – The Lone Pilgrim
Martha Woodard – Murillo's Lesson
The Florida-Alabama Progressive Seven Shape Note Singing Convention Singers – Amazing Grace
Landless – Doomsday
NOLA Sacred Harp Singers – The Last Judgement
Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers – My Mothers Gone

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