Singer/Songwriter
United States
Jean Ritchie
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About Jean Ritchie
Hometown
Viper, KY, United States
Born
December 8, 1922
Genre
Singer/Songwriter
A key figure in the 1950s folk revival, Jean Ritchie was a one-woman treasure trove of near-forgotten American folk songs, most of which she learned as a child growing up in a rural corner of the Appalachian Mountains. Born in 1922 and raised in a family of singers, Ritchie moved from Kentucky to New York City in the mid-'40s after attending college; there, she became a coffeehouse folksinger at night and a social worker by day. Along with her sporadic but deeply rewarding recording career, Jean Ritchie was best known as a tireless archivist of the Appalachian folk tradition.
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