Sweet Rivers, by Jean Ritchie

A 1981 Appalshop program which features Jean Ritchie and her June Appal album "Sweet Rivers." From our Headwaters Television collection.

Sweet Rivers

by Jean Ritchie

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Laura Bridgman Sweet Kentucky music, I used to listen to Jean Ritchie singing when I was young. Favorite track: Stream of Time.

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1.	Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow 02:07	buy track
2.	Mother in Bright Glory 01:10	buy track
3.	1981 Appalshop program featuring Jean Ritchie and her June Appal album "Sweet Rivers." - Evergreen Shore 03:01 video	buy track
4.	Resignation 03:20	buy track
5.	Stream of Time 04:43	buy track
6.	My Head and Stay 02:07	buy track
7.	Jesus Grant Us All a Blessing 02:04	buy track
8.	Long Lonesome Way 01:42	buy track
9.	Brightest and Best 03:31	buy track
10.	She is Gone 03:23	buy track
11.	I'm Alone in this World 02:34	buy track
12.	A Few More Years Shall Roll 02:12	buy track
13.	Sweet Rivers of Redeeming Love 01:53	buy track
14.	The White Pilgrim 02:59	buy track
15.	The Meeting is Over 02:12	buy track

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Jean Ritchie (born December 8, 1922) was an American folk singer, songwriter, and Appalachian dulcimer player from Viper, Kentucky. As a young girl she was part of her family's singing traditions and group - the Singing Ritchies. In the summer of 1946, she moved to work at the Henry Street Settlement in New York. There she met Oscar Brand, Leadbelly, and Pete Seeger and started singing her family songs again. In 1948 she shared the stage with The Weavers, Woody Guthrie and Betty Sanders at the Spring Fever Hootenanny. Oscar Brand's Folksong Festival on WNYC radio adopted her as a regular by October 1949. Ritchie has performed at Carnegie Hall and at the Royal Albert Hall. Her album, None But One, was awarded the Rolling Stone Critics award in 1977. In 2002, Ritchie received a National Endowment For The Arts National Heritage Fellowship, the Nation's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. She died in 2015 at her home in Berea, KY.

Sweet Rivers has been preserved and digitized from the original master tapes by Appalshop Archive.

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released January 1, 1981

Recordings for the 1981 release JA037, Sweet Rivers, were recorded by Dudley Wilson and Jack Wright, and the album produced by Jonathan Greene. Musicians included Jean Ritchie on vocals, Mallie Ritchie on vocals, Uma Yahkub on vocals, Kitty Singleton on vocals, Edna Baker on vocals, Pauline Kermiet on vocals, John McCutcheon on harmony vocals, fiddle, authoharp and hamered dulcimer, Jack Wright on vocals, guitar and humming, Dudley Wilson humming, Scott Faulkner humming, Jeff Kiser humming, Jim Cage on harmony vocals and guitar, and Marion Sumner on fiddle.

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Founded in 1974 in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, June Appal Recordings is the non-profit record label of Appalshop. It was established to record and distribute the music and stories of accomplished central Appalachian artists.

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