- Mountain Hearth & Home · 1952
- Precious Memories · 1962
- Mountain Hearth & Home · 2004
- Mountain Hearth & Home · 1952
- Mountain Hearth & Home · 2004
- The Appalachians · 2005
- Music for Children, Music by Children · 2017
- Classic Folk Songs for Kids from Smithsonian Folkways · 2016
- Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie · 2014
- The Best of Newport Folk Festival, Vol. 1 · 2013
- American Folk Singers and Balladeers, Vol. I · 2013
- American Folk Singers and Balladeers, Vol. I · 2013
- 1996
Compilations
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
- 8 December 1922
- GENRE
- Singer/Songwriter