Ritchie,Jean 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.

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