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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Patrick Cottrell’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel Afternoon Hours
of a Hermit
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"Much of my book Afternoon Hours of a Hermit concerns memory and the
techniques of fiction which I have tried to pass onto my students. But
truth be told, ...
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