Release Date: 22 April 2003
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 093074014523
Genres: Folk
Description
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.
Tracklisting
Little Folkies
Los Originarios del Plan
Meklit
Julian Kytasty
The Seldom Scene
Sons of Membertou
Jerron Paxton
Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin
Dan O'Farrell & The Difference Engine
Jim Ghedi
Various Artists
VARIOUS ARTISTS
The Mon
SHACK
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood
MYRIAM GENDRON
