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Category Archives: American Traditional
“Love is Pleasing” – Karan Casey (2008)
This one is in Alan Lomax’s famous Folk Songs of North America. As he notes, many traditional songs popularized by American singers ran “west across the ocean.” Thus in the 1940s Jean Ritchie, the Kentucky folk singer, met an Irish … Continue reading
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