Jean Ritchie sings "Black Waters" - about mountaintop removal
NY Times, June 2 - Jean Ritchie, who brought hundreds of traditional songs from her native Appalachia to a wide audience — singing of faith and unfaithfulness, murder and revenge, love unrequited and love lost — and in the process helped ignite the folk song revival of the mid-20th century, died on Monday at her home in Berea, Ky. She was 92...
Early on, as Ms. Ritchie explained in interviews, she wrote her most adamantly political compositions under a pseudonym, so as not to vex her adamantly apolitical mother.
Early on, as Ms. Ritchie explained in interviews, she wrote her most adamantly political compositions under a pseudonym, so as not to vex her adamantly apolitical mother.
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That would be "Black Waters", not "Blackwater", which is a different song by a different poet.
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