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Jean Ritchie

An integral figure in the 1950s folk revival, Jean Ritchie was a one-woman treasure trove of near-forgotten American folk songs, the majority of which she discovered as a kid growing up inside a rural corner from the Appalachian Mountains. Ritchie relocated from Kentucky to NEW YORK in the middle-’40s after …

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