ritchie family cd

Inspired to share her musical life at home with audiences beyond the kitchen door, Jean Ritchie compiled this album of songs and stories from her family. Unlike studio recordings, this collection places each song in its social context, and Ritchie’s extensive notes and interview transcriptions are both informative and entertaining.
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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.
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