Showing posts with label Jean Ritchie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jean Ritchie. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Jean Ritchie 1922 - 2015

NYT obituary here. One of the most interesting people I ever shared an elevator with. Here's a particularly fine bluegrass cover of her song Black Waters, a song it must have taken some major spine for a woman from Coal Country to write.