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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Keith Rosson’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel Coffin Moon
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"To me, music helps snare and distill a kind of emotional resonance, helps
put it on the page sometimes, and this is some of the stuff that I listened
thro...
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