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Jean Ritchie: Ballads from her Appalachian Family Tradition

by Jean Ritchie

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Gypsy Laddie 02:50
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Lord Bateman 06:05
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Old Bangum 01:56
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Edward 02:35
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Lord Randall 02:54
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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.

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released April 22, 2003

2003, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Learn more: folkways.si.edu/jean-ritchie/ballads-from-her-appalachian-family-tradition/american-folk/music/album/smithsonian

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