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.
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Jodi M. Savage’s Book Notes music playlist for her essay collection The
Death of a Jaybird
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"While writing The Death of a Jaybird, I listened to a lot of gospel music.
Writing about illness and grief is emotionally demanding. Because I grew up
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