back

Jean Ritchie

Title: Ballads from Appalachian Family Tradition

Label: Smithsonian Folkways

Cat No:SFWCD40145
Format:CD

Our price £ 11.99
Normally Ships within 24 to 48 hours.

Email this to a friend.

Discovery Records
specialist music - mail order

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 of British traditional ballads in Appalachia brings her clear, pure voice and timeless songs to new generations of listeners.

Track Listing for Ballads from Appalachian Family Tradition
Gypsy Laddie - Jean Ritchie - 2:50
false Sir John - Jean Ritchie - 4:21
hangman - Jean Ritchie - 2:00
lord Bateman - Jean Ritchie - 6:05
the House Carpenter - Jean Ritchie - 4:22
lord Thomas And Fair Ellender - Jean Ritchie - 5:30
the Merry Golden Tree - Jean Ritchie - 2:12
old Bangum - Jean Ritchie - 1:56
barbary Allen - Jean Ritchie - 5:04
the Unquiet Grave - Jean Ritchie - 4:00
sweet William And Lady Margaret - Jean Ritchie - 6:53
there Lived An Old Lord - Jean Ritchie - 5:29
cherry Tree Carol - Jean Ritchie - 3:48
edward - Jean Ritchie - 2:35
lord Randall - Jean Ritchie - 2:54
little Musgrave - Jean Ritchie - 12:02

Discovery catalogue available for
Jean Ritchie

Ballads from Appalachian Family Tradition