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SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS

JEAN RITCHIE - BALLADS FROM HER APPALACHIAN FAMILY TRADITION

JEAN RITCHIE - BALLADS FROM HER APPALACHIAN FAMILY TRADITION

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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.



Gypsy Laddie
False Sir John
Hangman
Lord Bateman
The House Carpenter
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
The Merry Golden Tree
Old Bangum
Barbary Allen
The Unquiet Grave
Sweet William and Lady Margaret
There Lived and Old Lord
Cherry Tree Carol
Edward
Lord Randall
Little Musgrave

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