Born and raised in Cleburne County, Arkansas, she learned music from her father, a fiddler and singing teacher. She collected and sang traditional ballads throughout her life, usually unaccompanied. Introduced to a wider public by folklorist John Quincy Wolfe and musicologist Alan Lomax, Riddle recorded extensively, and claimed to be able to perform over 500 songs.
Posts
Luke Goebel’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel Kill Dick
-
"...I wanted this list to capture something else — something deliberately
accessible. Something glossy. Something you’d hear leaking from a car
window at n...
12 hours ago
No comments:
Post a Comment