Child Ballads

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Let It Roll is a Pantheon podcast, and you can listen to more great podcasts at www.pantheonpodcasts.com. Today, Nate and Dave Thompson continue the Let It Folk mini-series, which focuses on Dave's book, An Evolving Tradition, The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock.

Today's episode continues the story of the Child Ballads as the early recording and broadcasting era segues into the first folk revival, and we meet characters like Alan Lomax, Ewan McCall, Jean Ritchie, Josh White, and a young Judy Collins.

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[instrumental music] It's time to let it roll, or should I say it's time to let it folk.

I'm your host, Nate Wilcox, and we're joined once again by Dave Thompson to continue our discussion of his book, An Evolving Tradition, The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock, which is not a history of folk music, despite us pawning off this podcast on you as a history of folk music.

Dave, welcome back.

It's also a great way to support the show if you can afford it.

Let It Roll is a Pantheon podcast, and you can listen to more great podcasts at www.pantheonpodcast.com. Today, Nate and Dave Thompson continue the Let It Folk miniseries, which focuses on Dave's book, an evolving tradition, the child ballads in modern folk and rock.

Today's episode takes the child ballads into the commercial recording world of the 1920s.

where they would be performed by country stars like the Carter family, jazz and swing artists, and we'll see the first flowering of the folk revival with artists like John Jacob Niles and Burl Ives.

Email us at letterrollpodcast at gmail.com.

It's time to let it roll.

I'm your host, Nate Wilcox.

And once again, we're bringing back Dave Thompson to continue our Let It Folk series based on his book, An Evolving Tradition, The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock.