Alan Lomax Archive | Jean Ritchie: Afflictions Though They Seem Severe (1949) @AlanLomaxArchive | Uploaded May 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Jean Ritchie, vocal, recorded by Alan Lomax in New York City, March 1949. Photo by Ritchie's husband George Pickow, circa 1958. Left to right: Shirley Collins, Jean Ritchie, Alan Lomax.
In 1946, after graduating from the University of Kentucky, Jean Ritchie - a native of Viper in Perry Co., Ky. - took a job at the Henry Street Settlement School in New York City. There she met Alan Lomax, who became her advocate and lifelong friend. In 1949 and 1950, she recorded several hours of songs, stories, and oral history (on noisy paper-backed tape) with him. (T1014R18)
Jean Ritchie, vocal, recorded by Alan Lomax in New York City, March 1949. Photo by Ritchie's husband George Pickow, circa 1958. Left to right: Shirley Collins, Jean Ritchie, Alan Lomax.
In 1946, after graduating from the University of Kentucky, Jean Ritchie - a native of Viper in Perry Co., Ky. - took a job at the Henry Street Settlement School in New York City. There she met Alan Lomax, who became her advocate and lifelong friend. In 1949 and 1950, she recorded several hours of songs, stories, and oral history (on noisy paper-backed tape) with him. (T1014R18)
