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JEAN RITCHIE

SINGING THE TRADITIONAL SONGS OF HER KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN FAMILY (LP) (LTD)
Label FANTÔME PHONOGRAPHIQUE
Catalog OME1019
Format LP
Discs 1
Category JAZZ/BLUES/COUNTRY
Street Date 2019-02-21
Description
(NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION LP) In the world of American folk music, Jean Ritchie was a truly unique presence. Most of the younger artists of the folk revival of the ’50s and ’60s were middle class urbanites and liberal arts college students who helped rediscover the older traditional artists of the South. Though these two groups intermingled at concerts and the younger artists idolized the true folk artists, Jean Ritchie was an anomaly in that she fit equally in each crowd. Born in Viper, Kentucky in 1922, Jean was born into The Ritchies of Perry County, who were considered one of the two great ballad-singing families of Kentucky celebrated among folk song scholars. The youngest of 14 children, Jean had Appalachian folk music in her blood, learning dozens of songs at a very early age from her parents and siblings. By college she was a master of traditional song and it was there that she met Alan Lomax who brought her to New York where she quickly began performing and mingling with Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and the like. Though she would appear on Library of Congress compilations and various other Lomax related recordings, this 1952 release is her first proper album and you will not find a more beautiful example of traditional Appalachian dulcimer and folk singing than Jean Ritchie Singing The Traditional Songs Of Her Kentucky Mountain Family. Another essential piece of obscure Americana to have new life breathed into it by Fantôme Phonographique.
tracklisting
Side A:
1. O Love Is Teasin
2. Jubilee
3. Black Is The Color
4. A Short Life Of Trouble
5. One Morning In May
6. One Morning In May (Version Two)
7. Old Virginny
8. Skin And Bones
Side B:
1. The Little Devils
2. My Boy Willie
3. Hush Little Baby
4. Gypsum Davy
5. The Cuckoo
6. The Cuckoo (Version Two)
7. Little Cory
8. Keep Your Garden Clean
 

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