Biography
Jean Ritchie
Effective period / Period of releases: 1952 - 1992
Jean Ritchie (born December 8, 1922, Viper, Kentucky, USA -died June 1, 2015, Berea, Kentucky, USA) was an American folk singer, songwriter and Appalachian dulcimer player known as "The Mother of Folk". Wife of photographer George Pickow and mother of musicians Jonathan Pickow and Peter Pickow