Wayfaring strangers
Subtitle: the musical voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
By: Fiona Ritchie & Doug Orr ; with the assistance of Darcy Orr ; foreword by Dolly Parton
Contributors: Orr, Douglas M., Jr., 1938- author; Parton, Dolly, writer of supplementary textual content
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781469618227
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Folk music; English Folk songs; History and criticism; Irish influences; Scottish influences
Description: guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change. From ancient ballads at the heart of the tradition to instruments that express this dynamic music, Ritchie and Orr chronicle the details of an epic journey.
Notes: "'Voices of tradition' profiles": pages 289-294; "Glossary of less-familiar musical terms": pages 295-297; "A contextual timeline": pages 299-305; "Resource centers": pages 307-308.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-320), discography (pages 311-312), and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: Voyage; title: Singing a new song; title: Epilogue. A great tapestry.; title: CD contents.; title: Barbara Allen  -- (Dolly Parton with Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Altan) -- (5:22); title: It was a' for our rightfu' king  -- (Dougie MacLean) -- (3:40); title: Dh'fhalbh mo nighean chruinn donn  -- (Colum Sands & Maggie MacInnes) -- (4:13); title: Benton's jig/Benton's dream  -- (Patrick Street) -- (3:33); title: The rambling Irishman  -- (Len Graham & Brían ÓhAirt) -- (4:09); title: The winding river Roe  -- (Cara Dillon) -- (4:30); title: The gypsy laddie  -- (Jack Beck) -- (4:07); title: Gypsy Davy  -- (Julee Glaub) -- (4:04); title: Pretty Saro  -- (John Doyle) -- (3:38); title: Indian whoop  -- (James Bryan & Carl Jones) -- (2:00); title: The Devil and the farmer's wife  -- (Alan Burke) -- (4:40); title: The farmer's curst wife  -- (Pete Seeger) -- (2:48); title: Young hunting/Elzig's farewell  -- (Sheila Kay Adams) -- (5:45); title: Black is the color  -- (Sara Grey) -- (2:43); title: Old George's Square  -- (Jean Ritchie) -- (3:08); title: Single girl, married girl  -- (Atwater Donnelly) -- (4:11); title: Shady Grove  -- (Doc Watson & David Holt) -- (6:17); title: Willie's lady  -- (Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer) -- (6:71); title: Wayfaring stranger/British field march  -- (Timothy Cummings) -- (3:49); title: The parting glass -- (Al Petteway & Amy White)-- (4:10).