Barbary Allen: Jean Ritchie
Kentucky-born folk music legend Jean Ritchie passed away on Monday. The Appalachian music mainstay was 92 years old.
Born in 1922, Ritchie graduated in college in the ’40s and moved to New York City. Armed with a repertoire of Appalachian folk tunes and a dulcimer, Ritchie introduced many folk fans and musicians to dozens of obscure songs that would have otherwise been lost.
“The youngest of 14 children in a farming family from Viper, Ky., Ms. Ritchie was a vital link in a chain of oral tradition that stretched back centuries. Her recordings and concerts — she appeared on some of the world’s celebrated stages, including Carnegie Hall in New York and the Royal Albert Hall in London — helped keep the music alive for an international listenership.
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June 2, 2015 at 1:36 pm
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June 2, 2015 at 3:48 pm
More than 30 records and an important figure of the folk revival and she doesn’t even have an entry in our language part of wikipedia? Unbelievable!
RIP Jean Richie. My beloved American+English Folk Music would have been different without her.
June 2, 2015 at 6:10 pm
Birgit,
It is a travesty that she isn’t there. Jean Ritchie influenced so many folk artists that her name should be emblazoned!
Copy the one in the English section and add it to the German.
June 2, 2015 at 6:23 pm
Classic Appalachia
June 2, 2015 at 6:41 pm
Spaceman,
The two albums I have are without question very much classic Appalachia.
June 4, 2015 at 11:30 am
RIP
Just a question–do you, or any of your Boston/New England followers remember any of her 11am visits to Robert J Lurtzema’s “Morning Pro Musica” show? We were blessed by the smooth integration of his classical and folk knowledge and experiences….She became a person, not just a voice on records, to me because of those interviews…
June 4, 2015 at 12:30 pm
J,
I probably have heard her as I was a dedicated listener to that show.
Her voice has always enthralled me.