(various) LP JEAN RITCHIE FIELD TRIP (limited private pressing) FOLK
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$ 31 Sold For
Sep 11, 2012 Sold Date
Sep 4, 2012 Start Date
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EESCRIPTION & CONDITION COLLECTOR LIMITED EDITION CLE 1201

Vinyl is in M- condition. Labels are brilliant and clean, record very glossy.

As issued in a generic cover.

EXTREMELY RARE LIMITED EDITION PRIVATE PRESSING.

In the early '50s, when folk singer and scholar Jean Ritchie was in college, she longed to journey to the British Isles to investigate the same musical connections that Francis James Child had explored almost 100 years earlier. Like Child, Ritchie was interested in mapping the songs she knew as a child back to their original origins, and eventually earned a Fulbright grant to visit Europe and document her findings. While Child's five-volume book English and Scottish Popular Ballads was groundbreaking in its unprecedented ability to draw connections between ancient and far-reaching folksongs, Ritchie planned to record these similarly rooted ballads and present the songs in groups so that the listener could hear the similarities themselves. In 1954, Richie and her husband George Pickow self-released the LP Field Trip, a series of songs matched together by their similar themes, some originating from Ireland, Scotland, and England, and some from her Kentucky mountain home. The LP was finally made available (again independently, this time through Richie's own Greenhays Recordings) in 2001 and the musical findings are just as relevant in the new millennium. Featuring versions of several of the folk revival's greatest "hits" ("Pretty Polly," "Barbry Ellen," "The Cuckoo"), Richie's performances are played alongside those of Elizabeth Cronin, Seamus Ennis and several other earthy folk from the British Isles. While different versions of the same songs may not appeal to casual folk fans, those who are fascinated by the growth and intertwining nature of this style of music will be overjoyed to have it available again.




Time

A1 Pretty Polly Judy Collins / Traditional Jean Ritchie 2:49

A2 On the Banks of Red Roses (Scotland) Jean Ritchie & Others / Ella Ward 2:25
A3 Cuckoo's Nest (Scotland) Traditional Jimmy MacBeath 1:12
A4 The Cuckoo Clarence Ashley / Traditional Jean Ritchie 1:29

A5 Bog Down in the Valley (Ireland) Seamus Ennis 2:44
A6 Tree in the Valley-O Jean Ritchie 2:47
A7 Barbara Allen (Scotland) Jimmy Stewart 2:56
A8 Barbara Allyn (Ireland) Elizabeth Cronin 2:15
A9 Barbry Ellen Traditional Jean Ritchie 2:25
B1 Froggy Went A-Courting Traditional Jean Ritchie 4:22
B2 Uncle Frog Went Out to Ride (Ireland) Seamus Ennis 2:53
B3 Orange and Lemon Dianne Endicott / Jean Ritchie & Others 1:26 B4 Needle's Eye Jean Ritchie 1:06
B5 Maid in Her Father's Garden Elizabeth Cronin 0:24
B6 A Pretty Fair Miss Jean Ritchie 2:44
B7 Bonaparte's Retreat (Ireland) Pee Wee King / Redd Stewart Jean Ritchie & Others / Johnny Pickering 3:39
B8 Bonaparte's Retreat Pee Wee King / Redd Stewart Jean Ritchie 1:19 B9 Derry Gaol (Ireland) Sarah Makem 1:03
B10 The Hangman Song Jean Ritchie 4:03
B11 When My Apron It Hung Low (Scotland) Jeannie Robertson 1:54
B12 Careless Love Public Domain / W.C. Handy / Martha E. Koenig / Spencer Williams Jean Ritchie 3:29
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