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Jean Ritchie: Ballads from her Appalachian Family Tradition

Jean Ritchie
Jean Ritchie: Ballads from her Appalachian Family Tradition Jean Ritchie is a national treasure, one of America's finest and best known traditional singers. She grew up in Viper, Kentucky, and is part of a large family, the famous "Singing Ritchies of Kentucky." The ballads on this recording are outstanding Appalachian versions of the "Child ballads," English and Scottish narrative songs collected and published by scholar Francis James Child in the late 19th century. The songs tell of true and lost love, jealousy, treachery, grief, death, and the supernatural. This reissue of her landmark Folkways recordings British Traditional Ballads in the Southern Mountains brings her clear, pure voice and timeless songs to new generations of listeners.

Track Listing

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Gypsy Laddie Jean Ritchie 02:50
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False Sir John Jean Ritchie 04:21
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Hangman Jean Ritchie 02:00
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Lord Bateman Jean Ritchie 06:05
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The House Carpenter Jean Ritchie 04:22
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Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender Jean Ritchie 05:30
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The Merry Golden Tree Jean Ritchie 02:12
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Old Bangum Jean Ritchie 01:56
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Barbary Allen Jean Ritchie 05:04
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The Unquiet Grave Jean Ritchie 04:00
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Sweet William and Lady Margaret Jean Ritchie 06:53
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There Lived an Old Lord Jean Ritchie 05:29
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Cherry Tree Carol Jean Ritchie 03:48
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Edward Jean Ritchie 02:35
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Lord Randall Jean Ritchie 02:54
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Little Musgrave Jean Ritchie 12:02