Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2003
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Appalachian Music
[Tracklist]
01 Gypsy Laddie (2:47)
02 False Sir John (4:18)
03 Hangman (1:57)
04 Lord Bateman (6:03)
05 The House Carpenter (4:19)
06 Lord Thomas And Fair Ellender (5:27)
07 The Merry Golden Tree (2:08)
08 Old Bangum (1:52)
09 Barbary Allen (5:01)
10 The Unquiet Grave (3:57)
11 Sweet William And Lady Margaret (6:49)
12 There Lived An Old Lord (5:26)
13 Cherry Tree Carol (3:45)
14 Edward (2:32)
15 Lord Randall (2:51)
16 Little Musgrave (12:03)
[Credits]
Jean Ritchie (dulcimer/guitar/vocals)
Liner Notes: Stephanie Smith, Peter Seitel and Kenneth S. Goldstein, Photographer: George Pickow, Designer: Sonya Cohen Cramer, Engineer: Pete Reiniger
[Notes]
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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