Jean Ritchie - Ballads from Her Appalachian Family Tradition [CD]

Jean Ritchie is a national treasure, one of America's finest and best known traditional singers. The ballads on this recordings are outstanding Appalachian version of the "Child ballads" English and Scottish narrative songs collected and published by scholar Francis James Child in the late 19th century. 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.

Tracklist:

1. Gypsy Laddie
2. False Sir John
3. Hangman
4. Lord Bateman
5. House Carpenter, The
6. Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
7. Merry Golden Tree, The
8. Old Bangum
9. Barbary Allen
10. Unquiet Grave, The
11. Sweet William and Lady Margaret
12. There Lived an Old Lord
13. Cherry Tree Carol
14. Edward
15. Lord Randall
16. Little Musgrave

UPC: 093074014523
Label: SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
Release Date: 4.22.03
Format: CD