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  2. List of North American folk music traditions - Wikipedia

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  3. American folk music - Wikipedia

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    The Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock musicians. They were the first vocal group to become country music stars; a beginning of the divergence of country music from traditional folk music.

  4. George Malcolm Laws - Wikipedia

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    George Malcolm Laws (January 4, 1919 – August 1, 1994) was a scholar of traditional British and American folk song. [1] [2]He was best known for his collection of traditional ballads "American Balladry from British Broadsides", published in 1957 by the American Folklore Society.

  5. Folk music - Wikipedia

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    The Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, Southern gospel, pop and rock musicians. They were the first vocal group to become country music stars; a beginning of the divergence of country music from traditional folk music.

  6. Category:Traditional ballads - Wikipedia

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  7. Little Sadie - Wikipedia

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    Roud Folk Song Index 780; Laws Ballad Index I8; The Traditional Ballad Index LI08 Archived 2008-08-08 at the Wayback Machine; Lyle Lofgren "Remembering The Old Songs: Little Sadie" Inside Bluegrass, January 2002; Little Sadie by The Rosinators - lyrics, song history and tab links; Miller Jr., E. John; & Michael Cromie Folk Guitar, Quadrangle ...

  8. On Springfield Mountain - Wikipedia

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    "On Springfield Mountain" or "Springfield Mountain" (Laws G16) [1] is an American ballad which recounts the tragic death of a young man who is bitten by a rattlesnake while mowing a field. [2] Historically, the song refers to the death of Timothy Merrick, who was recorded to have died on August 7, 1761, in Wilbraham, Massachusetts by snakebite .

  9. John Jacob Niles - Wikipedia

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    John Jacob Niles (April 28, 1892 – March 1, 1980) was an American composer, singer and collector of traditional ballads. Called the "Dean of American Balladeers," [1] Niles was an important influence on the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, with Odetta, Joan Baez, Burl Ives, Peter, Paul and Mary and Bob Dylan, among others ...