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Jean Ritchie (08 Dec 1922 - 01 Jun 2015)

Female Person - United States

Releases (20)

Official

Album

  1. Jean Ritchie Singing The Traditional Songs Of Her Kentucky Mountain Family Nov 1952
  2. Kentucky Mountain Songs 1954
  3. Jean Ritchie 1957
  4. Singing Family Of The Cumberlands 1957
  5. Children's Songs and Games From the Southern Mountains 1957
  6. British Traditional Ballads in the Southern Mountains, Volume 1 1960
  7. British Traditional Ballads in the Southern Mountains, Volume 2 1961
  8. Precious Memories 1962
  9. A Time For Singing 1965
  10. Marching Across the Green Grass and Other American Children's Game Songs 1968
  11. Kentucky Christmas 1987
  12. Mountain Born 1995 (as Jean Ritchie & Sons)
  13. Ballads From Her Appalachian Family Tradition 2003
  14. Carols for All Seasons
  15. The Most Dulcimer

Album - Compilation

  1. Mountain Hearth & Home : Jean Sings The Songs Of Her Kentucky Mountain Family 2004
  2. None but One / High Hills and Mountains

Relationships (3)

Member Of

  1. Doc Watson and Jean Ritchie eponymous

Married

  1. George Pickow

Children

  1. Jon Pickow

Recordings by (245)

  1. O Love Is Teasin' 1:49 (Nov 1952)
  2. Jubilee 2:15 (Nov 1952)
  3. Black Is The Color 2:17 (Nov 1952)
  4. A Short Life Of Trouble 1:03 (Nov 1952)
  5. One Morning In May 1:59 (Nov 1952)
  6. One Morning In May (Version 2) 1:37 (Nov 1952)
  7. Old Virginny 2:49 (Nov 1952)
  8. Skin And Bones 1:27 (Nov 1952)
  9. The Little Devils 2:00 (Nov 1952)
  10. My Boy Willie 1:28 (Nov 1952)
  11. Hush Little Baby 1:02 (Nov 1952)
  12. Gypsum Davy 1:57 (Nov 1952)
  13. The Cuckoo 2:58 (Nov 1952)
  14. The Cuckoo (Version 2) 1:52 (Nov 1952)
  15. Little Cory 1:39 (Nov 1952)
  16. Keep Your Garden Clean 1:28 (Nov 1952)
  17. Cedar Swamp ?:?? (1954)
  18. Nottamun Town ?:?? (1954)
  19. The Hangman Song ?:?? (1954)
  20. O Sister Phoebe ?:?? (1954)
  21. False Sir John ?:?? (1954)
  22. Shady Grove ?:?? (1954)
  23. Old King Cole ?:?? (1954)
  24. Skip To My Lou ?:?? (1954)
  25. Bachelor's Hall ?:?? (1954)
  26. The Girl I Left Behind ?:?? (1954)
  27. Jemmy Taylor-O ?:?? (1954)
  28. Killy Kranky ?:?? (1954)
  29. Lonesome Dove ?:?? (1954)
  30. Old Woman And Pig ?:?? (1954)
  31. The Little Sparrow ?:?? (1954)
  32. Goin' to Boston ?:?? (1954)
  33. The Cuckoo ?:?? (1954)
  34. Tree In The Valley ?:?? (1954)
  35. Barbry Ellen ?:?? (1954)
  36. Needle's Eye ?:?? (1954)
  37. A Pretty Fair Miss ?:?? (1954)
  38. Bonaparte's Retreat ?:?? (1954)
  39. The Hangman Song ?:?? (1954)
  40. Careless Love ?:?? (1954)
  41. Pretty Polly ?:?? (1954)
  42. Froggie Went A-Courting ?:?? (1954)
  43. A Haunt Tale And Ballad ?:?? (1957)
  44. How I Learned A New Song ?:?? (1957)
  45. We Hear Hezzie Kilburn Sing ?:?? (1957)
  46. One Christmas ?:?? (1957)
  47. Working In The Fields ?:?? (1957)
  48. Granny Katty In Church ?:?? (1957)
  49. A Molasses Stir-Off And My First Kiss ?:?? (1957)
  50. A Lonely Time And A Happy Reunion ?:?? (1957)
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On Recordings (10)

Performer

  1. Fair Nottamun Town 3:34 Roger McGuinn with Jean Ritchie (2001)

Instruments

  1. Fair Nottamun Town 3:34 Roger McGuinn with Jean Ritchie (2001) Appalachian dulcimer
  2. Most Fair Beauty Bright 2:21 Jean Ritchie (2004) Appalachian dulcimer
  3. The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore 3:10 Jean Ritchie (2007) guitar

Vocals

  1. If I Had a Hammer 2:49 Nanci Griffith (17 Mar 1998)
  2. Fair Nottamun Town 3:34 Roger McGuinn with Jean Ritchie (2001)
  3. John the Revelator 2:28 Roger McGuinn with Jean Ritchie and Odetta (2001)
  4. Most Fair Beauty Bright 2:21 Jean Ritchie (2004)
  5. The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore 3:10 Jean Ritchie (2007)
  6. The Wandering Boy 8:25 Roscoe Holcomb with Jean Ritchie (24 Apr 2018)

Credited as (18)

  1. Jean Ritchie
  2. Doc Watson & Jean Ritchie
  3. Clarence Ashley, Clint Howard, Fred Price, Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson
  4. Oscar Brand & Jean Ritchie
  5. Jean Ritchie & Paul Clayton
  6. Roger McGuinn with Jean Ritchie
  7. Roger McGuinn with Jean Ritchie and Odetta
  8. Jean Ritchie & Sons
  9. Jean Ritchie, Paul Clayton, Richard Chase
  10. Roscoe Holcomb with Jean Ritchie
  11. Jean & Doc
  12. Jean Ritchie, Oscar Brand & David Sear
  13. Oscar Brand And Jean Ritchie
  14. J. Ritchie
  15. Paul Clayton and Jean Ritchie
  16. Jean Ritchie And Paul Clayton
  17. Jean Ritchie with Doc Watson
  18. Butch Ross feat. Jean Ritchie

Works (17)

Wrote

  1. Liar's Nightmare
  2. One I Love

Composed

  1. West Virginia Mine Disaster
  2. Black Waters
  3. The L & N Don’t Stop Here Any More
  4. Blue Diamond Mines
  5. Skin and Bones
  6. My Dear Companion

Lyrics

  1. My Dear Companion
  2. West Virginia Mine Disaster
  3. Soldier’s Round
  4. Love Somebody, Yes I Do additional
  5. Black Waters
  6. Blue Diamond Mines
  7. Skin and Bones
  8. The L & N Don’t Stop Here Any More

Published

  1. March Down to Old Tennessee (1965)

Links (10)

Other Databases

  1. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/jean_ritchie

Last.Fm

  1. https://www.last.fm/music/Jean%20Ritchie

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/476000

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000231645

Imdb

  1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2918591/

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/52423989

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2661396

Secondhandsongs

  1. https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/9927

Stream For Free

  1. https://www.deezer.com/artist/265057
  2. https://open.spotify.com/artist/7cWhIVoEYJd0oWnxULFt8s