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.
Matthew Gavin Frank’s music playlist for his book Submersed
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"The book is a foray into the world of deep-sea divers, yes, but also into
the obsession and madness that oceans inspire in us..."
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