released May 11, 2020
this podcast features clips from recordings of folk songs. those songs and artists are listed here. nobody knows for sure who wrote these folk songs, but here is a list of the performers in the clips that i used as examples:

fae (introduction harp) - meara
sir patrick spens - anaïs mitchell & jefferson hamer
he mo leannan, ho mo leannan, mo nighean dunn - bannal waulking songs
the holly and the ivy - traditional (meara)
scarborough fair - simon and garfunkel
barbry ellen and interview - olive dame campbell
barbara allen - texas gladden
barbry ellen - ewan maccoll
rambling boys of pleasure - the kronos quartet featuring olivia chaney
down in the willow garden - the kossoy sisters
down by the salley gardens - traditional (meara)
the house carpenter - the english broadside ballad archive
house carpenter - bob dylan

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Bronson, Bertrand Harris. The Ballad as Song. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1969.

Friedman, Albert B., ed. The Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English Speaking World. New York: The Viking Press. 1956.

Howes, Frank. Folk Music of Britain and Beyond. London: The Camelot Press Ltd. 1969.

Krim, Arthur. “Appalachian Songcatcher: Olive Dame Campbell and the Scotch-Irish Ballad.” Journal of Cultural Geography, vol. 24, no. 1 (2007): pp. 91-112. Taylor and Frances Journal Complete.

Mackenzie, Pat and Jim Carroll. “Ewan MacColl 1915-1989.” Folk Music Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 121-124. JSTOR.

Muir, Willa. Living With Ballads. New York: Oxford University Press. 1965.

Scarborough, Dorothy. A Songcatcher in Southern Mountains: American Folk Songs of British Ancestry. New York: AMS Press, Inc. 1966.

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Wells, Evelyn Kendrick. The Ballad Tree. New York: The Ronald Press Company. 1950.