Jean Ritchie

Trackimage Playbut Trackname Playbut Trackname
Black Is The Color 02:17 Tools
Nottamun Town 02:29 Tools
O Love Is Teasin' 02:00 Tools
Jubilee 02:01 Tools
The Cuckoo 02:23 Tools
O Johnny's On The Water 01:32 Tools
Barbry Ellen (Barbara Allen) 05:05 Tools
Skin And Bones 01:08 Tools
Now Is the Cool of the Day 02:27 Tools
Hangman 02:04 Tools
False Sir John 04:24 Tools
A Short Life Of Trouble 01:01 Tools
Old Virginny 02:37 Tools
The House Carpenter 04:25 Tools
Gypsy Laddie 02:53 Tools
Barbary Allen 05:05 Tools
Most Fair Beauty Bright 02:17 Tools
West Virginia Mine Disaster 02:45 Tools
One I Love 03:01 Tools
Old Bangum 01:58 Tools
Hush Little Baby 01:01 Tools
Lord Bateman 06:07 Tools
One Morning In May [aka The Nightingale] 01:57 Tools
Gypsum Davy 01:57 Tools
The Little Devils 01:45 Tools
Keep Your Garden Clean 01:23 Tools
Barbry Ellen 05:04 Tools
Lord Thomas And Fair Ellender 05:33 Tools
Little Cory 01:36 Tools
Edward 03:47 Tools
The Merry Golden Tree 02:14 Tools
The Hangman Song 01:40 Tools
Shady Grove 02:36 Tools
Cedar Swamp 01:18 Tools
The Unquiet Grave 04:00 Tools
One Morning In May - Another Version 01:35 Tools
Sweet William and Lady Margaret 06:53 Tools
Lord Randall 02:54 Tools
My Boy Willie - Version 2 01:25 Tools
O Sister Phoebe 01:08 Tools
Cherry Tree Carol 03:30 Tools
The May Day Carol 01:43 Tools
Bachelor's Hall 01:13 Tools
Killy Kranky 01:03 Tools
There Lived an Old Lord 05:29 Tools
Jemmy Taylor-O 02:05 Tools
Goin' to Boston 01:30 Tools
Pretty Saro 01:56 Tools
Old Woman and Pig 02:08 Tools
The L And N Don't Stop Here Anymore - Remastered 03:01 Tools
Dulcimer Pieces: Shady Grove, Old King Cole, Skip To My Lou 01:45 Tools
Go Dig My Grave 01:57 Tools
Little Musgrave 12:02 Tools
One I Love - Remastered 01:35 Tools
Black Waters 03:47 Tools
Let The Sun Shine Down On Me - Remastered 01:43 Tools
Fair Annie Of Lochroyan 09:05 Tools
Barbara Allen 01:15 Tools
Wondrous Love 02:46 Tools
Lord Lovel 04:46 Tools
Over The River To Feed My Sheep 01:18 Tools
Let the Sun Shine Down on Me 02:45 Tools
The Carnal and the Crane 00:45 Tools
Blue Diamond Mines 04:21 Tools
The Cuckoo - Another Version 01:49 Tools
Old King Cole 01:13 Tools
One Morning In May 01:58 Tools
The L And N Don't Stop Here Anymore 03:14 Tools
Wild Horses - Remastered 02:29 Tools
Wabash Cannonball 03:21 Tools
The Bashful Courtship 02:05 Tools
One More Mile - Remastered 02:25 Tools
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies 02:20 Tools
PRETTY POLLY 03:37 Tools
Bury Me Beneath the Willow 04:25 Tools
With Kitty I'll Go - Remastered 00:42 Tools
With Kitty I'll Go 02:31 Tools
Gypsy Laddie (Gypsy Davy) 02:51 Tools
The Pig Went Out to Dig 01:22 Tools
Careless Love 02:25 Tools
Movin' on Down the River 02:53 Tools
O Johnnie's On The Water 01:33 Tools
Go In and Out the Window 00:59 Tools
Down in Yon Forest 01:32 Tools
Brightest and Best 03:07 Tools
The Gambling Suitor 01:35 Tools
My Boy Willie 01:27 Tools
Movin' On Down The River - Remastered 01:30 Tools
Among the Little White Daisies 01:33 Tools
Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies - Remastered Version 02:12 Tools
The Little Rosebud Casket 03:01 Tools
Little Devils 01:37 Tools
Young Man Who Wouldn't Raise Corn 01:43 Tools
Blue Diamond Mines - Remastered 02:09 Tools
Golden Ring Around The Susan Girl - Remastered 02:09 Tools
Wild Horses 01:41 Tools
Golden Ring Around The Susan Girl 01:37 Tools
The Old Grey Goose Is Dead 01:27 Tools
I Saw Three Ships 01:27 Tools
The Flower Carol 01:35 Tools
Wintergrace 03:24 Tools
Hey, Little Boy 02:00 Tools
Precious Memories 03:28 Tools
Dame Get Up and Bake Your Pies 00:53 Tools
Wassail Song 00:48 Tools
The Swapping Song 02:25 Tools
No Sir 02:07 Tools
One More Mile 02:59 Tools
Two Little Children - The Orphan's Last Plea 00:00 Tools
Over The River Charlie 03:46 Tools
The Blackest Crow 01:30 Tools
Jim Blake 02:29 Tools
Pretty Nancy 03:42 Tools
Christ Was Born in Bethlehem 03:21 Tools
The Gypsy's Warning 02:31 Tools
East Virginia 02:35 Tools
Introduction 01:42 Tools
The Poor And Rambling Boy 03:43 Tools
Soldier's Joy 01:11 Tools
Swing And Turn Jubilee 40:00 Tools
Love Somebody, yes I Do 00:42 Tools
The Cambridgeshire May Song 01:43 Tools
The Little Family 04:57 Tools
Lazy John 02:06 Tools
Kitty Alone 02:18 Tools
Pretty Betty Martin 01:38 Tools
The Keys Of Canterbury 02:41 Tools
The Printer's Bride 03:46 Tools
The Holy Well 03:33 Tools
The Wreck on the Highway 02:01 Tools
Sourwood Mountain 40:00 Tools
The Old Soup Gourd 01:11 Tools
Gentle Fair Jenny 02:19 Tools
The Maple On The Hill 02:57 Tools
Fiddle-I-Fee 02:05 Tools
The Riddle Song 03:01 Tools
Pussy Got the Measles 02:06 Tools
Old Shoe Boots 01:11 Tools
The L And N Don't Stop Here Anymore - Remastered Album Version 03:14 Tools
I Wonder When I Shall Be Married 02:02 Tools
Going To Boston 01:30 Tools
Hiram Hubbard 02:10 Tools
The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore 03:10 Tools
Sweet Willie 01:57 Tools
One Morning in May (AKA the Nightingale) 01:58 Tools
Sailor, Sailor on the Sea 02:52 Tools
The Great Speckled Bird 02:36 Tools
Wife of Usher's Well 05:21 Tools
Jenny Put The Kettle On 00:48 Tools
Children Go Where I Send Thee 02:13 Tools
Blue Ridge Mountain Blues 04:50 Tools
Old George's Square 03:09 Tools
God Bless The Moon 00:56 Tools
Morning Come, Maria Gone 02:53 Tools
Locks and Bolts 02:28 Tools
Amazing Grace 01:58 Tools
The Merry Golden Tree (Golden Vanity) 02:12 Tools
How to Hold the Dulcimer 00:30 Tools
Where are You Going? 02:00 Tools
Old Bald Eagle Kettle On 01:36 Tools
The Kentucky Cherry Tree Carol 00:30 Tools
Fair Nottamun Town 02:54 Tools
Barbry Allen 01:14 Tools
Mammy Had an Old Goose 01:58 Tools
Johnny Collins 02:44 Tools
Who Killed Cock Robin? 01:44 Tools
The Holly Bears the Berry 02:40 Tools
Train a Comin' 01:58 Tools
Sally Goodin 00:31 Tools
Killiekranke 01:29 Tools
The Old Man In The Woods 01:36 Tools
Two Dukes a-Riding 04:50 Tools
The Storms are on the Ocean 02:21 Tools
Marching Across the Green Grass 01:56 Tools
The Bluebird Song 02:41 Tools
Hangman (American folk song) 02:00 Tools
Storms are on the Ocean 01:40 Tools
Willie Moore 03:24 Tools
Old Bald Eagle 01:03 Tools
One I Love (Remastered) 01:36 Tools
Little Musgrave (Matty Groves) 12:07 Tools
The Haven of Rest 02:45 Tools
Paper of Pins 01:52 Tools
Cherry Tree of Cumberlands 03:30 Tools
Shoemaker's Song 01:32 Tools
One I Love - Remastered Album Version 03:01 Tools
The Old Grey Goose 00:30 Tools
What're We Going To Do With The Baby-Oh 02:00 Tools
Dabbling in the Dew 02:09 Tools
Moonshiners 01:22 Tools
Bird In The Cage 02:42 Tools
Tuning Up in the Major Key 01:17 Tools
None but One 06:17 Tools
Come You Home Again 02:10 Tools
Mourning Tears 04:15 Tools
Four Marys 02:44 Tools
Most Fair Beauty Bright (Jean Ritchie) 02:21 Tools
The Phrygian Mode 02:17 Tools
Let The Sun Shine Down On Me - Remastered Album Version 02:23 Tools
The Most Fair Beauty Bright 00:00 Tools
The Soldier 01:43 Tools
All the Little Ones are Sleeping 02:43 Tools
Playing the Scale 00:30 Tools
My Good Old Man 01:58 Tools
Little Bitty Baby (Children Go Where I Send Thee) 02:12 Tools
Wild Horses - Remastered Album Version 01:40 Tools
Hog Drovers 02:02 Tools
Singing with Counter-Melody 01:32 Tools
See The Waters A-Glidin' 04:16 Tools
The Day is Past and Gone 01:45 Tools
The Devil's Question 02:25 Tools
Spikedriver Blues 02:07 Tools
King Quine Song 01:55 Tools
Kansas Boys 02:14 Tools
What Will I Do With the Baby-O 02:27 Tools
Christ Church Bells 01:10 Tools
One More Mile - Remastered Album Version 03:00 Tools
Open the Window 02:25 Tools
Aunt Rhodie R.I.P. 04:50 Tools
Spike Driver Blues 26:40 Tools
The Cuckoo (version 2) 01:36 Tools
All You Jolly Huntsmen 01:42 Tools
A Young Man Who Shouldn't Hoe Corn 01:24 Tools
Dames Get up and Bake Your Pies 00:53 Tools
Use of a Pick 00:32 Tools
The Parson's Farewell 02:27 Tools
One Morning In May (Another Version) 01:35 Tools
The Minor Key-Aeolian Mode 00:30 Tools
Hunt the Cows 02:03 Tools
Too Many Shadows 03:18 Tools
Sweet Sorrow in the Wind 03:52 Tools
Movin' On Down The River - Remastered Album Version 02:23 Tools
Blue Diamond Mines - Remastered Album Version 04:14 Tools
Strumming Variations 02:02 Tools
Picking with the Fingers 01:26 Tools
The Lydian Mode 02:36 Tools
Old Raggy 01:50 Tools
With Kitty I'll Go - Remastered Album Version 02:13 Tools
How to Hold the Noter 02:21 Tools
Ring The Christ Church Bells 01:26 Tools
Flowers of Joy 03:38 Tools
I Saw Three Ships Sandys 00:30 Tools
The Little Sparrow 02:30 Tools
Golden Ring Around The Susan Girl - Remastered Album Version 01:36 Tools
See That Rainbow Shine 03:22 Tools
The Dorian Mode 02:00 Tools
Bandy Rowe 02:50 Tools
No, Sir 02:20 Tools
The Mixolydian Mode 00:30 Tools
My Boy Willie (Version 2) 01:25 Tools
14.The Cuckoo (version 1) 02:23 Tools
Simple Thumb Strum 02:13 Tools
Dulcimer Pieces 01:32 Tools
Last Old Train's A-Leavin' 03:39 Tools
Thousand Mile Blues 04:22 Tools
15.The Cuckoo (version 2) 01:36 Tools
One Morning In May #2 01:37 Tools
17.Old Woman and Pig 02:25 Tools
A Pretty Fair Miss 03:39 Tools
Lord Randall (Child No. 12) 02:53 Tools
L and N Don't Stop Here Anymore 02:07 Tools
9.Dulcimer Pieces 01:26 Tools
The Cuckoo (version 1) 02:23 Tools
18.The Little Sparrow 02:30 Tools
What'll I Do with the Baby-o? 02:03 Tools
The Deaf Woman's Courtship 00:58 Tools
Sugar on the Floor 02:33 Tools
The Orphan's Lament 02:54 Tools
I Met Rosalie 01:28 Tools
Froggy Went A-Courting 02:53 Tools
Old Daddy Grumble 02:44 Tools
High Hills and Mountains 04:24 Tools
Little Pack o' Tailors 02:51 Tools
Tree in the Valley-O 02:47 Tools
One Morning In May (Version 2) 01:35 Tools
Shady Grove - 1965 Newport Folk Festival 02:07 Tools
Dames Get Up Bake Your Pies 02:47 Tools
Here Sits a Young Lady 00:44 Tools
A Farmer's Wife 02:07 Tools
Don't Mind the Weather 02:07 Tools
The Hangman's Song 01:52 Tools
The Devil's Nine Questions 03:03 Tools
A Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn 01:52 Tools
The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore 04:16 Tools
Blue Diamond Mine 04:16 Tools
Bonaparte's Retreat #2 01:01 Tools
Dear Companion 00:00 Tools
That's Once 02:44 Tools
The Christmas Tree 00:00 Tools
The Cherry Tree Carol 03:33 Tools
The Royal Telephone 03:11 Tools
The Cuckoo (Another Version) 01:51 Tools
Dulcimer Pieces: Shady Grove - Old King Cole - Skip To My Lou 01:47 Tools
Jean Ritchie / The Cuckoo 01:29 Tools
Jackaro 03:34 Tools
FAIR AND TENDER LADIES 02:30 Tools
The Split Dog 01:41 Tools
Mountain Christmas Carolling 01:41 Tools
Shady Grove - Live 03:03 Tools
Bonaparte's Retreat 03:33 Tools
Little Musgrave (Child 81) 00:30 Tools
Hangman Song 00:00 Tools
The Girl On The Greenbriar Shore 02:39 Tools
The Snakebit Hoehandle 02:03 Tools
Little Maggie 03:03 Tools
I Saw Three Ships Sandys 02:03 Tools
One Morning In May - Version 2 02:03 Tools
Who Killed Cock Robin! 01:41 Tools
Ella Ward / On the Banks of Red Roses 02:23 Tools
Two Dukes A Riding 01:35 Tools
Gypsy Laddie - Gypsy Davy 00:00 Tools
Two Little Children 01:51 Tools
Who killed Cock Robin 00:00 Tools
Seamus Ennis / Bog Down in the Valley-O 02:44 Tools
Dulcimer Medley: Shady Grove/ Old King Cole/Skip To My Lou 01:47 Tools
Jean Ritchie / Tree in the Valley-O 02:47 Tools
JENNY JENKINS 02:44 Tools
The Royal Telephone F.M. Lehman 03:11 Tools
The Man In The Kraut Tub 01:50 Tools
Lullabies 02:47 Tools
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies 02:47 Tools
Wintergrace/Mourning Tears 01:35 Tools
On the Banks of Red Roses 02:44 Tools
Fiddle I Fee 01:51 Tools
Banjo Pieces 00:30 Tools
Barbary Allen (Barbara Allen) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Jane 00:00 Tools
The Dying Cowboy 00:00 Tools
Resignation; Goin' To Boston 06:10 Tools
The Cuckoo-Jean Ritchie 02:25 Tools
The L and N don’t stop here anymore 02:25 Tools
Aiken Drum 02:25 Tools
Jean Ritchie / Pretty Polly 02:47 Tools
Our Meeting is Over 01:35 Tools
Notlamum Town 00:00 Tools
Oid Virginny 00:00 Tools
I Wonder When I Shall Be Mdried 00:00 Tools
Christ Was Brown In Bethlem 00:00 Tools
Little Bitty Baby - Children Go Where I Send Thee 06:10 Tools
Dulcimer Medley:shady Grove / Old King Cole / Skip To My Lou 06:10 Tools
My Boy Billy 03:34 Tools
Civil War March 00:30 Tools
Storms Are On The Ocean (Sung by Jean Ritchie with Doc Watson, guitar) 03:34 Tools
Elisabeth Cronin / Barbara Allyn (Child 84) 06:10 Tools
One Morning in May (Version Two) 06:10 Tools
Cuckoo 00:00 Tools
West Virginia Mining Disaster 00:00 Tools
Jimmy Stewart / Barbara Allen (Child 84) 02:54 Tools
Jemmy Tailor O 02:05 Tools
The Orphans' Lament 01:44 Tools
The Big Toe 03:50 Tools
Jimmy MacBeath / The Cuckoo's Nest 01:10 Tools
SHORT'N BREAD 01:10 Tools
The Hickory Toothpick 06:10 Tools
THE ADMIRAL 06:10 Tools
Moonshinere 06:10 Tools
Dulcimer Pieces (Shady Grove, Old King Cole, Skip to My Lou) 06:10 Tools
The L and N Don't Stop Here Anymore (Remastered) 06:10 Tools
Jean Ritchie / Barbry Ellen 00:30 Tools
Lord Bateman (Child 53) 00:30 Tools
Jean Ritchie / Froggy Went A-Courting 00:30 Tools
Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies (Remastered Version) 00:30 Tools
Blue Diamond Mines (Remastered Album Version) 00:30 Tools
Jean Ritchie / A Pretty Fair Miss 00:30 Tools
Seamus Ennis / Uncle Frog Went Out to Ride 02:50 Tools
One More Mile (Remastered Album Version) 00:30 Tools
Gypsie Laddie 00:30 Tools
Soldier Soldier 00:30 Tools
Ennery My Son 00:30 Tools
Wild Horses (Remastered Album Version) 00:30 Tools
Pretty Polly (Sung by Jean Ritchie with dulcimer) 02:23 Tools
Gypsy Laddie [Child #200] 02:50 Tools
What're We Goin To Do With the Baby-Oh 01:44 Tools
Shady Grove ( at The 1965 Newport Folk Festival) 01:44 Tools
Jackaroe 01:44 Tools
  • 102,162
    plays
  • 11,733
    listners
  • 102162
    top track count

Jean Ritchie (December 8, 1922 – June 1, 2015) was an American folk singer and Appalachian dulcimer player. Became known as "The Mother of Folk". As well as work songs and ballads, Jean knew hymns from the "Regular Baptist" church she attended in Jeff, Kentucky. These were sung as "lining out" songs, in a lingering soulful way. One of the songs they sang was Amazing Grace. She wrote some songs, including one on the effects of strip mining in Kentucky. "My Dear Companion" appeared on the album "Trio" recorded by Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris. Judy Collins not only recorded some of Jean's traditional songs, "Tender Ladies" and "Pretty Saro", but used a photograph by George Pickow on the front of her album "Golden Apples of the Sun" (1962). Jean's fiftieth anniversary album was "Mountain Born" (1995), which features her two sons Peter and Jonathan Pickow. In 1954 Jean and George released some their UK recordings under the name "Field Trip". It was re-issued in 2001 on the Greenhays label. It has recordings by Elizabeth Cronin, Seamus Ennis and others, side by side with Ritchie family versions of the same songs. In 1996 the Ritchie Pickow Photographic Archive was acquired by the James Hardiman Library, National University of Ireland, Galway, along with tapes of Irish recordings. She has performed in Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall, London. Her album "None But One" was awarded the Rolling Stone Critics award in 1977. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Similar Artists

Tags