COUNTRY

From the muddy banks of the Mississipi Delta to the high cliffs of the Appalachian mountains, a playlist dedicated to the true roots of amercian old time and folk musics.

Old Time Music & Blues & Folk & Americana & Bluegrass & Country and much more...

Sunday

Pony Blues

A Spoonful Blues

Walkin' in the Parlor: Old Time Music of the Southern Mountains

Down in the Willow Garden (Rose Connolly)

Live From the Ryman And More

Strong Enough (Live from the Theater at Ace Hotel/2019) [feat. Lucius]

Furnace Mountain - Fields of Fescue

Started Out to Ramble

Raleigh and Spencer/Dusty Miller

H as in HOOKER, John Lee (vol. 2)

Ground Hog Blues

45 Country Classics by Hank Williams

I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive

Hey, Good Lookin'

Your Cheatin' Heart

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Precious Memories: Jean Ritchie Sings Folk and Country Songs

Go Dig My Grave

Milkers and Hollers

Pinnacle Mountain Silver Mine

Now entering the seventh decade of an extraordinary and influential career, Jean Ritchie is one of the most enduring figures in American folk music. Elektra’s second LP release and, significantly, the label’s first folk LP, Jean Ritchie Singing The Traditional Songs Of Her Kentucky Mountain Family laid down an impressive marker for the embryo label. It was also Ritchie's first album.

Jean was born in 1922 in Viper, Kentucky, the youngest of 14 children. The family’s Anglo-Scots-Irish heritage was rich in songs sung by generations tucked away in the Appalachians. Singing in the purest of tones and strumming on her dulcimer, Ritchie’s ingenuous songwriting preserved an ancient tradition.

After graduating college, she arrived in New York in 1948 where she was a sensation. Nobody had heard such authentic performances except on field recordings. She recorded a second LP for Elektra in 1954, Kentucky Mountain Songs. All her Elektra material is now gathered onto the Rhino Handmade collection Mountain Hearth & Home.

Jean Ritchie has always maintained her Appalachian authenticity and for Jac Holzman, it was a remarkable opportunity to capture such a seminal artist as his first folk artist.