WEEK 7 / SONG SYLLABUS

Week 7: Thursday, March 1
Anglo-American Ballads: SOURCE

"Barbara Allen" (Alan Lomax 170/183)
S&P Jean Ritchie

"Down by the Sally Gardens" (W.B. Yeats; Silverman 144)
S&P Richard Dyer-Bennett

"Comin’ thro’ the Rye" (Scottish, traditional; Silverman 281, Song Session 112)

BALLADS. See Child Ballads. Concentrate on the following songs:

Barbara Allen (Child #84)
Omie Wise
Pretty Polly / Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight Omie Wise (Child #4)
The House Carpenter (Child #243, as Daemon Lover or James Harris)
Gypsy Davey (Child #200) (Supplement)

I'm providing the static urls this week, to see if it makes use of SGS easier for you all.


BARBARA ALLEN (Child # 84, Barbara Allen)

Barbara Allen / Jean Ritchie SGS
http://internal.ucberkeley2.classical.com/permalink/recording/3221285367/

Free Little Bird / Clarence Ashley. FOR COMPARISON!
http://internal.ucberkeley2.classical.com/permalink/recording/3221310977/

See also: Max Hunter, Child Ballad # 84, Barbara Allen (several versions)

OMIE WISE
Omie Wise / Doug Wallin (CA 1960-62)
http://internal.ucberkeley2.classical.com/permalink/recording/3221321961/

Ommie Wise / G.B. Grayson (S&P Archive, AAFM 1952+++)

Omie wise / Roscoe Holcomb
http://ucberkeley2.classical.com/permalink/recording/2147535547/

See also: Naomia Wise (in Max Hunter as Naomia Wise, #1494)

Refer to Anna Domino story here (handout?) in Wilentz/Marcus

THE HOUSE CARPENTER (Child #243, The House Carpenter)
The House Carpenter / Jean Ritchie
http://internal.ucberkeley2.classical.com/permalink/recording/3221309031/

The House Carpenter / Doc Watson, The Watson Family
http://internal.ucberkeley2.classical.com/permalink/recording/3221304845/

House Carpenter / Clarence Ashley (S&P Archive, AAFM)
See also: Max Hunter, Child # 243, The House Carpenter (several versions)

House Carpenter / Bob Dylan S&P Archive



PRETTY POLLY (Child # 4, LADY ISABEL & THE ELF KNIGHT)

Pretty Polly / Doug Wallin, Jack Wallin
http://internal.ucberkeley2.classical.com/permalink/recording/3221314101/

Pretty Polly / Doc Boggs
http://internal.ucberkeley2.classical.com/permalink/recording/3221287352/

See also: Max Hunter, Child Ballad # 47, Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight

See also MH: Loving Henry (#1400)—to the tune of Storms Are on the Ocean. Very dark…but beautifully sung by Fran Majors, Wichita Kansas, 1963

See also: Clarence Ashley, Free Little Bird (on SGS, Original Folways Recordings, 1960-62)
http://internal.ucberkeley2.classical.com/permalink/recording/3221310977/


BLACK JACK DAVY (Child Ballad # 200, The Gypsie Laddie) / SUPPLEMENTAL

Black Jack Davy / The Carter Family (S&P Archive)

Gypsie Davy / Jean Ritchie
http://internal.ucberkeley2.classical.com/permalink/recording/3221285358/

Gypsy Davy / Woody Guthrie (SGS) http://internal.ucberkeley2.classical.com/permalink/recording/3221319537/
Black Jack Davy / Bob Dylan (S&P Archive)

See also: Max Hunter, Child Ballad # 200, The Gypsie Laddie


ALSO:

CHARLIE FEATHERS, Pardon Me, Mister. Listen to the words on this one carefully. Does it fit in the ballad tradition? Compare with Barbara Allen—and Pretty Polly/Lady Isabel. Charlie Feathers—a great rock-a-billy singer/songwriter. Available only on S&P Archive, or iTunes


We could also be looking at the ballad tradition in the African-American world, where the form often resembles European ballads, but the words themselves come from more direct, everyday experience (sometimes a mythic past-as in John Henry). Of course, some of these ballads have been shared generally…


The Lowlands of Holland / Paddy Tunney (S&P Archive). For an example—very beautiful—of a traditional British ballad…

MacColl, Ewan and Peggy Seeger. MATCHING SONGS OF THE BRITISH ISLES AND AMERICA. RLP 12-637. Bill Grauer Prod., Inc., 235 W. 46th St., N.Y. 36, N.Y. (In this album the singers match American and British versions of five of the old ballads.)


YouTube & WildCards:

Roscoe Holcomb / John Hardy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zOI9pvq-tU

Barbara Allen (Emily Rossum/from the film Songcatchers)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRgH_0zxqQ

Omie Wise video (a contemporary dramatization):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOeTcgSJ3MA

House Carpenter (Pentangle) (folk-revival at it's most self-serious)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4jXfMEu1YY



SUPPLEMENTAL:

Jean Ritchie / Shady Grove (dulcimner)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8wR4GZGnZE

Jean Ritchie / Blue Diamond Mines (singing over film)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oLGXmwMppE

Doc Watson /Salty Dog / Step Dancing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t6-NhuZc5E

Father & son / Down the Road
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdEoACxw_Gg

Charlie Feathers & Family video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIO4uK91Jck

Charlie Feathers rockabilly (Gotta Get Wicked)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piDedgdYsUg