Jean Ritchie (b 1922)

American singer of traditional American and British folk songs. Also collector of songs in the UK.

Albums.

Title.	year.	Label.	Number
Rounds and Roundelays	1948
Singing the Traditional Songs of Her Kentucky Mountain Family	1952
[Reissue]	2010	Tartare
Songs from Kentucky Vol 1	1953	Argo	ARL 1012
Songs from Kentucky Vol 2	1953	Argo	ARL 1013
Courting Songs	1954
Kentucky Mountain Songs	1954
Field Trip	1954
[Reissue]	2001	Greenhays
Singing Family of the Cumberlands	1955
Saturday Night and Sunday Too	1956
Children's Songs & Games from the Southern Mountains	1956
[Reissue]	2009	Folkways
American Folk Tales and Song	1956
The Ritchie Family of Kentucky	1958
Carols of All Seasons	1959	Tradition	TLP 1031
[Reissued as "Carols For All Seasons"]	1997	Rykodisc/Tradition	TCD 1058
Riddle Me This (*)	1959
Field Trip - England	1960
As I Roved Out - Field Trip Ireland	1960
Ballads in Colonial America (**)
British Traditional Ballads vol 1	1961
British Traditional Ballads vol 2	1961
Ballads (vol 1 and 2 above, on a single CD)	2003
Ballads from her Appalachian Family Tradition	1961	Smithsonian Folkways	SFW40145
[Reissue]	2009	Smithsonian Folkways
Come On In, We're Pickin' And Singin'	1962
Precious Memories	1962
The Appalachian Dulcimer: An Instructional Record	1963
[Reissue]	2009	Folkways
A Time for Singing	1966
Marching Across the Green Grass (****)	1968
Clear Waters Remembered	1971	Transatlantic	XTRA 1123
Jean Ritchie at Home	1974
None But One	1977
Christmas Revels. Wassail! Wassail!	1982
O Love is Teasin'	1985
Kentucky Christmas, Old and New	1987
The Most Dulcimer	1992
Mountain Born	1995
High Hills and Mountains	1996
Childhood Songs	1997

(* with Oscar Brand)
(** with Tony Graber)
(*** with Doc Watson)
(**** full title: Marching Across the Green Grass & Other 
American Children's Game Songs)

Multi-volume albums.

Title	Year.	Label.	number.
Songs From Kentucky (*)	1957	Westminster	RG 17
None But One/ High Hills and Mountains	1994	Greenhays

(* Consists of 17 of the 21 tracks from "Songs of Kentucky Vol 1" and "Vol 2" [1953])

Collaboration - Jean Ritchie, Oscar Brand, Tom Paley, Harry and Joanie West.

Title.	year.	Label.
Shivaree!	1955

Collaboration - Jean Ritchie, Oscar Brand and Tom Paley.

Title.	year.	Label.
Courtin's A Pleasure	1955

Collaboration - Jean Ritchie and Paul Clayton.

Title.	year.	Label.
American Folk Tales and Song	2006

Collaboration - Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson.

Title.	year.	Label.	no.
Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson at Folk City	1963	Smithsonian Folkways	40005
[Reissue]	2010	Smithsonian Folkways

DVDs.

Title	year.	Label.
Legends of Old Time Music	2002
Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story	1997

Album tracks.

Carols For All Seasons. Recorded 1959. Running time 36 minutes 30 seconds. Jean Ritchie (vocals, lap dulcimer), Robert Abramson (harpsichord), LaNoue Davenport (recorder). Liner notes by Jean Ritchie. Original title was "Carols of All Seasons".

Title.	Author.
1. The Carnal and the Crane (instr)	Trad
2. I Saw Three Ships	Trad
3. Dame Get Up and Bake Your Pies	Trad
4. Children Go Where I Send Thee (Appalachian carol)	Trad
5. Down in Yon Forest	Trad
6. Brightest and Best (Appalachian carol)	Trad
7. Cherry Tree of Cumberlands (Appalachian carol)	Trad
8. The Pig Went out to Dig	Trad
9. Christ Church Bells	Tune:Trad, Words: J Ritchie
10. The Flower Carol (to the tune "Good King Wenceslas")	Trad
11. The May Day Carol	Trad
12. The Cambridge May Song	Trad
13. The Holy Well	Trad
14. The Little Family (Appalachian carol)	Trad
15. Christ Was Born in Bethlehem	Trad
16. The Holly Bears The Berry (Sans Day Carol)	Trad
17. Wassail Song (instr)	Trad

Last updated on 11/02/2011