Jean Ritchie
Author
Publisher
Compass Records
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Kentuckian Jean Ritchie was born in 1922 and was immersed in the traditional songs of the area. She taught music to children in New York where she befriended Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Oscar Brand. She recorded several albums in the '50s and wrote songs that were recorded by Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, and Linda Ronstadt. Her songwriting has helped preserve the music traditions of Kentucky. Now her music is being covered by her fans and admirers...
Publisher
Oak Publications
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
Jean Ritchie is the best known and most respected singer of traditional ballads in the United States. It has been nearly thirty years since she originally published Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians, and the music found here tells the story of the "Singing Ritchie Family" at a time when railroads, coal mines, and hillbilly radio were making their first incursions into the mountains of eastern Kentucky. Built upon a foundation of balladry inherited...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland...
Publisher
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Folk music from North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, including "old-time fiddle and banjo pieces, early bluegrass, [and] traditional ballads, with a special emphasis on Appalachian vocal traditions"--Container verso.
Publisher
Smithsonian Folkways
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With this collection, curator Jeff Place culls a cross-section of 26 classics from the Smithsonian Folkways vaults to tell an intriguing story of American signature sing-alongs. The songs' origins are as fascinating as the songs are fun: centuries-old European ballads, an American Revolutionary tune, Nineteenth-century American folksongs, African-derived game songs, a sea chantey, a railroad jingle, camp songs, and even an opera song all sung by a...