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    Jean Ruth Ritchie (December 8, 1922 – June 1, 2015) was an American folk singer, songwriter, and Appalachian dulcimer player, called by some the "Mother...
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  • Hush, Little Baby (category Jean Ritchie songs)
    2021-10-12. Thompson, Richard (2015-07-03). "Jean Ritchie remembered". Bluegrass Today. Retrieved 2020-11-22. "Jean Ritchie". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved...
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    the work of Jean Ritchie, a Kentucky musician who performed with the instrument before New York City audiences. In the early 1960s, Ritchie and her husband...
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  • other countries. He was married to the well-known Kentucky folk musician Jean Ritchie. Pickow was born in Los Angeles but grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In...
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  • written by Campbell. She said the album was inspired by the works of Jean Ritchie, Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins. All songs written by Isobel Campbell...
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    south-southeast of Hazard. Viper has a post office with ZIP code 41774. Jean Ritchie, folk singer U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System:...
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  • Shady Grove (song) (category Jean Ritchie songs)
    2021. Jean Ritchie, Jean Ritchie's Swapping Song Book (University Press of Kentucky (1999), pp. 34-37 & Charles Wolfe forward. Fiona Ritchie & Doug Orr...
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  • Kentucky Mountain Family is the first studio album of American folk singer Jean Ritchie. It was released in 1952 by Elektra Records. The album consists of renditions...
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  • I Saw Three Ships (category Jean Ritchie songs)
    of the Alan Lomax archive. Ritchie later recorded the song on her album 'Carols of All Seasons' (1959). Whilst Jean Ritchie's family version is the only...
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    folk musicians became scholars and advocates themselves. For example, Jean Ritchie (1922–2015) was the youngest child of a large family from Viper, Kentucky...
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  • Children, Go Where I Send Thee (category Jean Ritchie songs)
    "Children, Go Where I Send Thee" (alternatively "Children, Go Where I Send You" or variations thereof, also known as "The Holy Baby", "Little Bitty Baby"...
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    obtained renown during the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s, including Jean Ritchie, Roscoe Holcomb, Ola Belle Reed, Lily May Ledford, Hedy West and Doc...
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  • None but One (category Jean Ritchie albums)
    released by American singer Jean Ritchie in 1977 on Sire LP record SA-7530. The album was a stylistic departure for Ritchie in that it featured "modern"...
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  • recorded twice: Edith Fitzpatrick James of Ashland, Kentucky (1934) Jean Ritchie of Viper, Kentucky (1949), available online as part of the Alan Lomax...
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    Press Sarah Frances Price Lyda Ramey Sarah Felt Richardson Joan Riehm Jean Ritchie Verna Mae Slone Lucy Harth Smith Catherine Spalding Louise Southgate...
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  • The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore (category Jean Ritchie songs)
    Stop Here Anymore" is a ballad written and released by Jean Ritchie in 1965. Though Jean Ritchie typically eschewed controversial topics, the subject of...
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    Guthrie, Lead Belly, Big Bill Broonzy, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Oscar Brand, Jean Ritchie, John Jacob Niles, Susan Reed, Paul Robeson, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey...
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    was translated into English as "The Flower Carol", and was recorded by Jean Ritchie on the album Carols for All Seasons (1959), with its original melody...
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  • Some well-known folk singers, including Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Jean Ritchie, also participated in these concerts. At this time, younger brother Bobby...
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  • Down in Yon Forest (category Jean Ritchie songs)
    way to the United States, where several traditional singers including Jean Ritchie have been recorded singing the song. The carol has been arranged in modern...
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  • Carols of All Seasons (category Jean Ritchie albums)
    Carols of All Seasons is a 1959 studio album by American folk singer Jean Ritchie. It was recorded with two classical musicians, which is not unusual for...
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    1961. Jean Ritchie "Go Dig My Grave" on Precious Memories 1962. Vern Smeiser "The Butcher's Boy" 1963 on Art of Field Recording Volume 2. Jean Ritchie and...
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  • Lucian Freud, German-English painter and illustrator (d. 2011) 1922 – Jean Ritchie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015) 1923 – Dewey Martin, American actor...
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  • January 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2014. Ritchie, Jean. "Big Brother 2: The Official Unseen Story by Jean Ritchie". Goodreads.com. Archived from the original...
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  • heard online. Jean Ritchie, also of Kentucky, recorded two traditional versions with slightly different tunes. The version sung on Ritchie's album Carols...
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  • Perryman – "Home on the Range" Dog Cheryl Poole – Gilded Cage Chicken Jean Ritchie – Mother Opossum Scuffy Shew – Convict Fox Betty Taylor – Bill Bailey...
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    Trio, Pete Seeger, Bob Gibson with Joan Baez, Odetta, Earl Scruggs, Jean Ritchie, The New Lost City Ramblers, Bo Diddley, Reverend Gary Davis, Barbara...
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  • Ritchie is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adele Ritchie (1874–1930), singer in comic opera, musical comedy and vaudeville Albert Ritchie...
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  • the arrangement was by veteran folksinger Jean Ritchie. Unknown to Dylan, the song had been in Ritchie's family for generations, and she wanted a writing...
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  • Prescription for Murder, a 2000 book by journalists Brian Whittle and Jean Ritchie, suggested that Shipman forged the will either because he wanted to be...
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