Kentucky Folksinger, Dulcimer Player Jean Ritchie Dies at 92NEW YORK - Jean Ritchie, the Kentucky-born folksinger who broughtthe centuries-old ballads she...Adeniyi, Luqman
Related to Folk speech:Folk songs the speech of the common people, as distinguished from that of the educated class. See also:Folk Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co. Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a link to ...
S.G. Goodman, the salt of the earth, queer Kentuckian, offers eerie melodies on her sophomore recordTeeth Marks. Reflecting the new small-town America—she lives minutes away from her hometown of Hickman, Kentucky—she writes like she’s the Bruce Springsteen of the South. One more thing...
“Janis Ian is a music icon whose songs and performances have resonated with the public for over five decades. Much of her music has poignantly focused on social issues. Ian is a pioneer of both confessional singer-songwriters’ music and social protest.” ...
Where Is Tyler Childers From? Timothy Tyler Childers, known professionally as Tyler Childers, was born on June 21, 1991, and raised in Lawrence County, Kentucky, near the West Virginia border. His father worked in the coal industry, and his mother was a nurse. Country music heavily influenced...
For example, Jean Ritchie was the youngest child of a large family from Viper, Kentucky that had preserved many of the old Appalachian folk songs. Ritchie, living in a time when the Appalachians had opened up to outside influence, was university educated and ultimately moved to New York ...
(or, for that matter, Van Ronk). Probably the highest-profile such musician, however, was Jean Ritchie, the dulcimer player from Kentucky who made her first records in the early 1950s, and is still alive at the age of 91. Ritchie’s music might strike some as prim, but it was ...
from that perspective before either ~ of the woman’s view of things when a tragic accident falls on a mining community. Jean always says that when she ever heard of a story that didn’t have a song to go with it (as was always the case when she was growing up in Eastern Kentucky)...
I bid farewell to old Kentucky, The place where I was born and raised. For six long years I’ve been in trouble, No pleasures here on earth I found. For in this world I’m bound to ramble, I have no friends to help me now. ...
A true labor of love from four friends. This is the kind of album we might have heard coming out of the dormitory window when we were in college. Fourtold is Steve Gillette, Anne Hills, Cindy Mangsen and Michael Smith, four of the most highly regarded folk singer/songwriters of our ...