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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Cynthia Weiner’s music playlist for her novel A Gorgeous Excitement
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"Music in the 1980s was unabashedly over-the-top—synthesizers, hard-driving
guitar riffs, propulsive drum fills—both mirroring and perhaps contributing
to ...
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