Notes
LETTERS FROM HOME
Fiona Ritchie:
1. Winchester, Atlantic, 15.
2. The 1947 film Paddy’s Milestone documents the Ailsa Craig’s role in the manufacture of blue hone granite curling stones, used to slide across the ice in the winter sport of curling.
3. The Dress Act of 1746 made the wearing of any “Highland Dress,” including kilts and tartan, illegal in Scotland.
Doug Orr:
1. Kenneally, Living Ghosts.
2. Hettinger, Springs of Music, 8.
3. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.
4. Pen, “A Cursory Glance at Old Time Music,” 22.
5. Brian McNeil, “The Rovin’ Dies Hard.” McNeil’s original composition refers to “Alaska’s wild mountains.” This has been revised with his permission to fit the Wayfaring Strangers story, a modification he sometimes also makes, depending on the performance venue.
PROLOGUE
1. Lunsford, Asheville Citizen, May 22, 1948.
2. Moulden, “The Printed Ballad in Ireland,” 390.
3. Stewart, Appalachian Heritage, 3.
4. Ritchie, Singing Family of the Cumberlands, 254.
BEGINNINGS
1. Wells, The Ballad Tree, 180.
2. Ibid., 193.
3. Bogin, The Women Troubadours.
4. Aubrey, The Music of the Troubadours, 254–62.
5. Ibid., xvii.
6. Ibid., 272–73.
7. Buchan, The Ballad and the Folk, 271.
8. Wells, The Ballad Tree, 6.
9. Buchan, The Ballad and the Folk, 313.
10. Wells, The Ballad Tree, 208.
11. Ibid., 211.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., 214.
14. Laws, American Balladry, 55.
15. Wells, The Ballad Tree, 214.
16. John Purser interview.*
17. Bronson, The Ballad as Song.
18. Ibid.
19. Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 41.
20. Jack Beck interview.*
21. Quinn, The Atlantean Irish, 42.
22. Ibid., 42.
23. Williamson, Joan of Arc Archive, 1.
24. Talbott, “Beyond ‘the Antiseptic Realm of Theoretical Economic Models.’“
25. Fraser, Mary, Queen of Scots, 182.
26. Ibid., 131.
27. Annie Lennox, South Bank show, ITV, 2007.
28. A Welcome to Aberdeen, 1.
29. Buchan, The Ballad and the Folk, 6–7.
30. Ibid., 7.
31. Bronson, Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, 265.
32. Buchan, The Ballad and the Folk, 59.
33. Ibid., 16.
34. Ibid., 28.
35. Ritchie, The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to Celtic Music, 39.
36. Fischer, Albion’s Seed, 621.
37. Wells, The Ballad Tree, 56.
38. Ibid., 57.
39. Fischer, Albion’s Seed, 621.
40. Wells, The Ballad Tree, 74.
41. Ibid., 68
42. Leyburn, The Scotch-Irish, 27–29.
43. Buchan, The Ballad and the Folk, 62.
44. Jack Beck interview.*
45. Wells, The Ballad Tree, 248–49.
46. Ibid., 249.
47. The Meeting of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott at Sciennes Hill House, painted by Charles Martin Hardie, 1893.
48. Munro, The Poetry of NeilMunro, 28.
VOYAGE
1. McHardy, A New History of the Picts, 89.
2. Ibid., 95.
3. Ibid., 186.
4. Vann, In Search of Ulster-Scots Land, 42
5. Ibid., 44–45.
6. Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Little White Rose” (verse inscribed on the Canongait Wall, Edinburgh, as part of the Scottish Parliament complex).
7. Blethen and Wood, From Ulster to Carolina, 12.
8. Ulster Historical Foundation, The Plantation of Ulster, 1610–1630.
9. Leyburn, The Scotch-Irish, 133.
10. Ibid., 136.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., 139.
13. Len Graham interview.*
14. Graham, Joe Holmes, 15.
15. Aidan O’Hara interview.
16. Graham, Joe Holmes, 102.
17. Moloney, Far from the Shamrock Shore, 4.
18. Len Graham interview.*
19. Cooper, The Musical Traditions ofNorthern Ireland and Its Diaspora, 36–39.
20. Breathnach, Folk Music and Dances of Ireland, 57–62.
21. Graham, Joe Holmes, 233.
22. O’Hara, Atlantic Gaels, 17.
23. Sir Alexander Gray, “Scotland” (verse inscribed on the Canongait Wall, Edinburgh, as part of the Scottish Parliament complex).
24. Lunney, “Home and Leaving Home in Eighteenth-Century Ulster,” 6–7.
25. Heaney, Preoccupations.
26. Fischer, Albion’s Seed, 632.
27. Ulster-American Folk Park exhibit.
28. Fitzgerald and Lambkin, Migration in Irish History, 1607–2007, 23.
29. Eileen Ivers, Immigrant Soul, liner notes, Koch Records, 2003
30. Miller, Emigrants and Exiles, 557.
31. Moulden, “The Printed Ballad in Ireland,” 390.
32. Miller, Emigrants and Exiles, 560
33. Eileen Ivers, Immigrant Soul, liner notes.
34. John Doyle interview.*
35. Moulden, “The Printed Ballad in Ireland,” 389–90.
36. Heaney, Poems, 1965–1975, 81–82.
37. Winchester, Atlantic, 154.
38. Hewitson, Tam Blake & Co., 11.
39. Ibid., 11.
40. Ibid.
41. Winchester, Atlantic, 75.
42. Fitzpatrick and Lambkin, Migration in Irish History, 1607–2007, 18.
43. Ibid., 27.
44. Ulster-American Folk Park exhibit.
45. Fitzgerald and Lambkin, Migration in Irish History, 1607–2007, 24.
46. Ibid., 27.
47. Blethen and Wood, From Ulster to Carolina, 25.
48. Fitzgerald and Lambkin, Migration in Irish History, 1607–2007, 27.
49. Len Graham interview.*
50. Rouse, The Great Wagon Road, 33.
51. Leyburn, The Scotch-Irish, 177–78.
52. Fitzgerald and Lambkin, Migration in Irish History, 1607–2007, 31.
53. Blethen and Wood, From Ulster to Carolina, 122.
54. Moloney, Far from the Shamrock Shore, 7.
55. Blethen and Wood, From Ulster to Carolina, 123.
56. Mott, “A History of Homesickness.”
57. Fitzgerald and Lambkin, Migration in Irish History, 1607–2007, 52.
58. Fischer, Albion’s Seed, 605–6.
59. Griffin, The People with No Name, 2–4.
60. Blethen and Wood, From Ulster to Carolina, 35.
61. Dunaway, The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania, 192–95.
62. Gilmore, “A Fiddler Was a Great Acquisition to Any Neighborhood,” 154.
63. Breathnach, Folk Music and Dances of Ireland, 42
64. Dunaway, The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania, 199.
65. Gilmore, “A Fiddler Was a Great Acquisition to Any Neighborhood,” 156.
66. Dunaway, The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania, 199.
67. Gilmore, “A Fiddler Was a Great Acquisition to Any Neighborhood,” 156.
68. Ibid., 156.
69. Ibid., 159–60.
SINGING A NEW SONG
1. Pen, “A Cursory Glance at Old Time Music,” 22.
2. Rouse, The Great Wagon Road, 163.
3. Ibid., 162.
4. Smith and MacNeil, Songs and Tunes of the Wilderness Road, 17.
5. Ibid., 18.
6. Hulme, Mountain Measure, 84.
7. Dykeman, The French Broad, 43–44.
8. Alarik, “Robin and Linda Williams: Home, Home on the Road,” 37–43.
9. Satterwhite, Dear Appalachia, 215.
10. Stewart, Appalachian Heritage, 3.
11. Moulden, “Country Music Is Ulster Music,” 9.
12. Burton, “The Lion’s Share,” 5–13.
13. Sheila Kay Adams interview.*
14. Margaret Bennett interview.
15. Karpeles, Cecil Sharp: His Life and Work, 169.
16. Sheila Kay Adams interview.*
17. Ibid.
18. Abramson and Haskell, Encyclopedia of Appalachia, 1121.
19. Sandburg, The American Songbook, 306.
20. Strangeways, Cecil Sharp, 142.
21. Smith, Jane Hicks Gentry, 75.
22. Sheila Kay Adams interview.*
23. Loyal Jones interview.
24. Scarborough, A Song Catcher in Southern Mountains, 53–59.
25. Pete Seeger interview.*
26. Cooper, The Musical Traditions ofNorthern Ireland and Its Diaspora, 36.
27. Rouse, The Great Wagon Road, 199.
28. Abramson and Haskell, Encyclopedia of Appalachia, 1208.
29. Scoggins, The Scotch-Irish Influence on Country Music in the Carolinas, 88–89.
30. Wells, The Ballad Tree, 275.
31. Pete Seeger interview.*
32. Brian McNeill interview.*
33. Fussell, Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina, 218.
34. Ibid., 34.
35. Ibid., 220.
36. Ibid., 222.
37. Cooper, The Musical Traditions ofNorthern Ireland and Its Diaspora, 138.
38. Abramson and Haskell, Encyclopedia of Appalachia, 1122.
39. Carlin, The Birth of the Banjo, 3.
40. Cooper, The Musical Traditions ofNorthern Ireland and Its Diaspora, 151.
41. Sawyers, The Celtic Roots of Southern Music, 16.
42. Abramson and Haskell, Encyclopedia of Appalachia, 1209.
43. Joe Thompson obituary, New York Times, March 4, 2012.
44. Alan Jabbour interview.*
45. Pen, “A Cursory Glance at Old Time Music,” 4.
46. Ginny Hawker interview.
47. Paul Brown interview.
48. Pen, “A Cursory Glance at Old Time Music,” 7.
49. Ritchie, Singing Family of the Cumberlands, 248.
50. Scoggins, The Scotch-Irish Influence on Country Music in the Carolinas, 105–7.
51. Ibid., 113.
52. Marshall, Christy, 16.
53. Garin, Southern Appalachian Poetry, 39.
EPILOGUE
1. Hewitson, Tam Blake & Co., viii.
2. Grieve and Scott, The Hugh MacDiarmid Anthology.
3. Neat, Poetry Becomes People.
4. Ancelet and Gould, Biography of a Cajun and Creole Music Festival.
5. Ritchie, Clear Waters Remembered, liner notes, Greenhays, 1974.
6. West, Voicing Scotland, 13.
* Interview excerpt © Fiona Ritchie Productions/The Thistle & Shamrock®, as heard on NPR®.