Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: United States
Released: 1962
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Traclist]
A01 The Needle's Eye (00:27)
A02 Carrion Crow (01:36)
A03 Gypsy Davy (01:57)
A04 Jennie Jenkins (02:00)
A05 Linktem Blue (00:20)
A06 Cherries Are Ripe (01:28)
A07 Trot Trot to Boston (00:53)
A08 This Very Unhappy Man (01:40)
A09 Aunt Jemima (01:15)
A10 Gorion-Og (03:57)
A11 The Scolding Wife (00:56)
A12 Riddles (00:24)
B01 Old Mr. Grumble (02:11)
B02 Single Again (01:21)
B03 New Hampshire Miller (03:03)
B04 What the Old Hen Said (01:15)
B05 Mother in the Graveyard (02:17)
B06 Marlboro Merchants (06:40)
[Credits]
Margaret MacArthur (autoharp/dulcimer/vocals)
Liner Notes: Margaret MacArthur, Designer: Ronald Clyne
[Notes]
Born in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, Margaret MacArthur spent her childhood moving around the western United States. Her first contact with folk music came in 1933, when her father began work at an Arizona timber company with displaced cowboys and folk singers who had collected songs throughout their travels. In 1948 MacArthur moved to Vermont, where she gathered the songs presented here from churches, friends, and broadsides found near her farm. When speaking of her death, Margaret MacArthur’s granddaughter Robin wrote, "On her deathbed she was sick with morphine, most of her memory gone, but she could still remember the lyrics to any ballad we asked her to sing. This music had etched itself into her soul; song and landscape and self had twined into a fabric that was lasting, resounding, and full of grace."
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