Tag Archives: Child Ballads

John Jacob Niles’ I Wonder as I Wander: Carols and Love Songs

Posted on 21st December 2016 by Diverse Voices

Lory Hess penned this review. If John Jacob Niles is just a name to you–perhaps most famously attached to the haunting carol “I Wonder as I Wander”–then listening to this recording will make him into a Voice. And I mean … Continue reading →

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Pamela Dean’s Juniper, Gentian & Rosemary

Posted on 21st April 2016 by Diverse Voices

Rachael Rodgers contributed this review. In her novel, Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary, Pamela Dean offers a story inspired by a traditional ballad, a familiar and fascinating blend of lyrical writing spiced with literary references and a perceptive glimpse into everyday life touched … Continue reading →

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Deborah A. Symonds’s Weep Not For Me

Posted on 6th April 2016 by Michael M. Jones

This has not been an easy book to review, for several reasons. First of all, we must consider the full title, and the subject matter: Weep Not For Me: Women, Ballads, and Infanticide in Early Modern Scotland. That’s right, Deborah … Continue reading →

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Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer: Child Ballads

Posted on 13th March 2013 by Gary Whitehouse

American singer-songwriters Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer have taken something of a middle tack in their superb little album Child Ballads. They do take a strictly acoustic and folk approach, but with arrangements and production that somehow have a modern … Continue reading →

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Francis James Child’s The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Posted on 31st March 2002 by Jack Merry

…true popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature… — Francis James Child So it only took a century for a corrected edition of the first volume of the most famous ballad collection in the Anglo-Celtic tradition to be published. Was … Continue reading →

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Ellen Kushner’s Thomas The Rhymer

Posted on 5th March 1999 by Diverse Voices

Debbie Skolnik wrote this review. “Come along, come along with me, Thomas the Rhymer,” sings Steeleye Span, one of the early and influential English folk-rock groups, which is how I first heard the story of Thomas the Rhymer, many years … Continue reading →

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