SFW40145_107

The Merry Golden Tree

Track Artist Jean Ritchie
Country(s) United States
Language(s) English
Duration 2:12

Jean Ritchie: Ballads from her Appalachian Family Tradition

Jean Ritchie SFW40145

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 British Traditional Ballads in the Southern Mountains brings her clear, pure voice and timeless songs to new generations of listeners.
Country(s) United States
Language(s) English
Year of Release 2003
Record Label Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Source Archive Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Credits Compiled by Kenneth S. Goldstein ; Produced by Kenneth S. Goldstein ; Liner Notes by Kenneth S. Goldstein ; Liner Notes by Jean Ritchie ; Liner Notes by Stephanie Smith ; Mastered by Pete Reiniger ; Design by Sonya Cohen Cramer ; Photography by George Pickow

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	101	Gypsy Laddie	Jean Ritchie	2:50
	102	False Sir John	Jean Ritchie	4:21
	103	Hangman	Jean Ritchie	2:00
	104	Lord Bateman	Jean Ritchie	6:05
	105	The House Carpenter	Jean Ritchie	4:22
	106	Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender	Jean Ritchie	5:30
	107	The Merry Golden Tree	Jean Ritchie	2:12
	108	Old Bangum	Jean Ritchie	1:56
	109	Barbary Allen	Jean Ritchie	5:04
	110	The Unquiet Grave	Jean Ritchie	4:00
	111	Sweet William and Lady Margaret	Jean Ritchie	6:53
	112	There Lived an Old Lord	Jean Ritchie	5:29
	113	Cherry Tree Carol	Jean Ritchie	3:48
	114	Edward	Jean Ritchie	2:35
	115	Lord Randall	Jean Ritchie	2:54
	116	Little Musgrave	Jean Ritchie	12:02