How the Appalachian Mountains preserved ancient British ballads (with 36 historical recordings)

This video aims to demonstrate how traditional British and Irish folk songs were preserved in Appalachia, with emphasis on traditional recordings. The video is very long, but feel free to just listen to the music without taking in all of the details! I will be uploading lots more similar content, so make sure you subscribe to my channel to make sure you don't miss it!

Many of the featured recordings were taken from the YouTube channel Reynard the Fox, which has collected and uploaded several thousand authentic English language folk songs. I’d urge everyone interested in traditional music to explore and subscribe to Reynard the Fox’s channel. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr-Yww8BJQcRkZVg78euK_g/playlists
Here is a link to every single recording featured:

Introduction (0:00):
Harry Cox – Seventeen Come Sunday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSfn00nFHB4
Bertha Baird (and Buna Hicks): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-tQGxNllag&t=506s
I. G. Greer – Sweet William and Fair Ellen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVbjDTlq-hc
Linnie Landers – The Scotland Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ca9KByxB2M
Horton Barker – There was an Old Lady: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_4e_99forQ&list=PLUPo4m6wvzjGnpwYpgN7ZoV7dnzXECoWm&index=9
Dock Boggs – Pretty Polly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxkSuBhzHqg

Popular Ango-Irish folk songs in the Ritchie repertoire (4:26):
Jean Ritchie – The Little Devils: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAos5jmSj8I
Kitty Cassidy – Pretty Polly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnHSWxBxCu0&t=82s
Jean Ritchie – False Sir John: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAT5mDCwKpE
Young Singer – Lord Ronald: https://www.vwml.org/record/VWMLSongIndex/SN17101
Jean Ritchie – Lord Randall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB-SfjGy8TM
Frank Hinchliffe – Edward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk8tLF1YLCk&t=42s
Jean Ritchie – Edward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZiEU6C9ZZA
Joseph Taylor – Lord Bateman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNKD55q9y7o
Jean Ritchie – Lord Bateman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXWpSbK6rGA
John Partridge – The Cherry Tree Carol: http://glostrad.com/cherry-tree-carol-the/
Jean Ritchie – The Cherry Tree Carol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7FeXU7PlWc&t=2s
Sam Larner – Barbara Allen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP-B7Mj-PN4
Jean Ritchie – Barbary Allen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihit0mpmz7o
Fred Hewitt – The Prickle Holly Bush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d30wJsT4WE
Jean Ritchie – Hangman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48bX-hBjVn4
Paddy Tunney – Seven Little Gypsies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01UTYEVRu8E&t=1s
Jean Ritchie – Raggle Taggle Gypsies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys86dBVeL3A
Louie Hooper – Georgie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRgiScaKmJU
Jean Ritchie – Geordie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWoX7JSkrX4
Dorothy Bavey – Here We Come a-Wassailing: https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Steve-Gardham-Collection/025M-C1009X0005XX-5300V0
Jean Ritchie – The Wassail Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjapW6j8VjQ

Specific examples of the preservation of old ballads (17:44):
Texas Gladden – The Devil’s Nine Questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9GVzDrMUj0
Berzilla Wallin – Love Has Brought Me to Despair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgr4HGP9mHg&t=81s
Lee Monroe Presnell – The House Carpenter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKL6PgTswrQ&t=4s
Buna Hicks (and Bertha Baird): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-tQGxNllag&t=506s
Samuel Harmon – The Wild Boar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px7ov3u5rGw&t=4s
Jean Ritchie – Darby Ram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FvZENGyWQM&t=3s
Charlie Wills – Derby Ram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLYO5INuDyw

Concluding Thoughts (29:55):
Nimrod Workman – The Lady Gay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOqiphvs-M8
Mariana Schaupp – Robin Hood and Little John: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIc01qh0bBY
Correction: Since making this video, it has become clear to me that two or three of the Jean Ritchie recordings were most likely not learnt in the oral tradition, such as the Wassail Song and Raggle Taggle Gypsies, which she probably learnt from print or from British and Irish singers. If I made this video again, I would focus more on where each Appalachian recording came from, and discuss in more detail the huge part broadside ballads played in the distribution of the songs.

In the recording at 0:45, it is in fact Greer's wife playing the dulcimer to accompany his singing.
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