- Mountain Hearth & Home · 1952
- Mountain Hearth & Home · 1952
- Mountain Hearth & Home · 2004
- Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson At Folk City · 1963
- Precious Memories · 1962
- Mountain Hearth & Home · 2004
- Mountain Hearth & Home · 1952
- Mountain Hearth & Home · 1952
- Mountain Hearth & Home · 2004
- Jean Ritchie: Ballads from Her Appalachian Family Tradition · 1961
- Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson At Folk City · 1963
- Classic Southern Gospel from Smithsonian Folkways · 1994
- Mountain Hearth & Home · 2004
About Jean Ritchie
A key figure in the 1950s folk revival, Jean Ritchie was a one-woman treasure trove of near-forgotten American folk songs, most of which she learned as a child growing up in a rural corner of the Appalachian Mountains. Born in 1922 and raised in a family of singers, Ritchie moved from Kentucky to New York City in the mid-'40s after attending college; there, she became a coffeehouse folksinger at night and a social worker by day. Along with her sporadic but deeply rewarding recording career, Jean Ritchie was best known as a tireless archivist of the Appalachian folk tradition.
- HOMETOWN
- Viper, KY, United States
- BORN
- December 8, 1922
- GENRE
- Singer/Songwriter