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'Jean Ritchie' History: 



Resident in Port Washington, NY, Appalachian musician/singer Jean Ritchie is celebrating sixty years in public performance. Jean still takes on about 15-20 singing engagements a year, in colleges, festivals and seminars around the country and abroad. "Life is good, and we're enjoying it, and I'm doing my best to age gracefully" - Jean Ritchie




Tracks by 'Jean Ritchie' 


All little ones are sleeping 
A Pretty Fair Miss 
A Short Life Of Trouble 
Aunt Rhodie R.I.P. 
Awake Awake You Drowsy Sleeper 
Baby-O 
Bachelor's Hall 
Bandy Rowe 
Barbary Allen 
Barbry Ellen 
Bird In The Cage 
Black Is The Color 
Black Waters 
Bluebird song 
Blue Diamond Mine 
Blue Diamond Mines 
Brightest And Best 
The Cambridgeshire May Song 
Careless Love 
The Carnal And The Crane 
Cedar Swamp 
Cherry Tree Carol 
Cherry Tree Of Cumberlands 
Children Go Where I Send Thee 
Christ Church Bells 
Christ Was Born In Bethlehem 
Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies 
Come You Home Again 
The Cuckoo 
The Cuckoo 
Dabbling In The Dew 
Dame Get Up And Bake Your Pies 
The Day Is Past And Gone 
Dianne Endicott, Orange and Lemon 
Down In Yon Forest 
Dulcimer Pieces Shady Grove, Old King Cole, Skip 
Dulcimer Pieces: Shady Grove - Old King Cole - Skip To My Lou 
Edward 
Elisabeth Cronin, A Maid in Her Father's Garden 
Elisabeth Cronin, Barbara Allyn (Child 84) 
Ella Ward, On the Banks of Red Roses 
False Sir John 
The Flower Carol 
Four Marys 
Froggy Went A-Courting 
God Bless The Moon 
Goin' To Boston 
Golden Ring Around The Susan Girl 
Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah 
Gypsum Davy 
Gypsy Laddie 
Hangman 
The Hangman Song 
The Hangman's Song 
The Haven Of Rest 
The Holly Bears The Berry 
The Holy Well 
The House Carpenter 
Hunt the cows 
Hush Little Baby 
I Saw Three Ships 
Jeannie Robertson, When My Apron It Hung Low 
Jean Rtichie, Bonaparte's Retreat #2 
Jemmy Taylor-O 
Jenny Put The Kettle On 
Jimmy MacBeath, The Cuckoo's Nest 
Jimmy Stewart, Barbara Allen (Child 84) 
Johnny Collins 
Johnny Pickering, Bonaparte's Retreat 
Jubilee 
Keep Your Garden Clean 
Killiekranke 
Killy Kranky 
With Kitty I'll Go 
Last Old Train's A Leaving 
Lazy John 
Let The Sun Shine Down On Me 
Little Cory 
Little Devils 
THe Little Devils 
The Little Family 
Little Musgrave 
The L And N Don't Stop Here Anymore 
Locks And Bolts 
Lord Bateman 
Lord Randall 
Lord Thomas And Fair Ellender 
The May Day Carol 
The Merry Golden Tree 
Morning Come And Mariah's Gone 
Mourning Tears 
Movin' On Down The River 
My Boy Willie 
Needle's Eye 
Nottamun Town 
O Johnnie's On The Water 
Old Bangum 
Olde Bangum 
Old raggy 
Old Virginny 
Old Woman And Pig 
O Love Is Teasin' 
One I Love 
One More Mile 
One Morning In May 
One Morning In May #2 
O Sister Phoebe 
Over The River To Feed My Sheep 
The Parson's Farewell 
The Pig Went Out To Dig 
Pretty Nancy 
Pretty Polly 
Pretty Saro 
Sarah Makem, Derry Gaol 
Seamus Ennis, Bog Down in the Valley-O 
Seamus Ennis, Uncle Frog Went Out to Ride 
See The Waters A Glidin' 
Shady Grove 
Shoemaker song 
Shoemaker's Song 
Skin And Bones 
The Soldier 
Swapping Song 
Sweet William And Lady Margaret 
There Lived An Old Lord 
Train a-comming 
Tree in the Valley-O 
The Unquiet Grave 
Wassail song 
West Virginia Mine Disaster 
Wild Horses 
Wintergrace 
Young Man Who Wouldn't Raise Corn