Almeda Riddle
About the artist
Almeda Riddle (November 21, 1898, Cleburne County, AR, USA - June 30, 1986) was an American folk singer. Born and raised in Cleburne County, Arkansas, she learned music from her father, a fiddler and singing teacher. She collected and sang traditional ballads throughout her life, usually unaccompanied. Introduced to a wider public by folklorist John Quincy Wolfe and musicologist Alan Lomax, Riddle recorded extensively, and claimed to be able to perform over 500 songs. She was often known as Granny Riddle.
Top songs
- My Little Rooster
- Poor Wayfaring Stranger
- Chick-A-Li-Lee-Lo
- Frog Went A-Courtin'
- Jesse James
- Hangman Tree
- Mama Buy Me A Chiney Doll
- Go Tell Aunt Nancy
- Lonesome Dove
- Rainbow Mid Life's Willows - Remastered
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- Lonesome Dove - Remastered
- Bury Me Beneath the Willow
- Rainbow Mid Life's Willows
- I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger
- Frog Went a Courtin'
- I Love My Little Rooster
- Merry Golden Tree
- The Titanic
- Down In Arkansas
- The House Carpenter
- Rainbow 'Mid Life's Willows
- Rainbow Mid Life's Willows (Remastered)
- Alan Bain
- Tom Sherman's Barroom
- Soldier of the Legion
- The Oxford Girl
- Chick-a-la-lee-o
- Barbara Allen
- Black Jack Davey
- The Two Lovers
- The Orphan Girl
- The Water Is Wide
- Lonesome Dove (Remastered)
- My Little Rooster (Ost Gummo)
- Children of the Heavenly King
- Will the Weaver
- Babes in the woods
- Amazing Grace
- Come Thou, Fount of Every Blessing
- Worldwide Peace
- Come All You Texas Rangers
- My Old Cottage Home
- There is a happy land
- How Firm a Foundation
- Froggie Went A-Courtin'
- Sons of Sorrow
- Twilight is Stealing
- Star of Bethleem
- Sweet Rivers
- Vain World, Adieu
- They sang that old-time religion
- Time as made a change in me
- I'm a Long Time Traveling Here Below
- Babes inthe wood
- Little Rooster
- I'm a Long Time Travelling Here Below
- House Carpenter
- My Little Rooster - Almeda Riddle
- 1.Frog went a-courtin'
- Mama, buy me a Chiney Doll
- Mama Buy Me Chiney Doll
- Frog Went A-Courtin' - Almeda Riddle
- Chick-A-Li-Lee-Lo - Almeda Riddle
- My Little Rooster ( OST Гуммо)
- Mama Buy Me A Chiney Doll - Almeda Riddle
- Come all ye Texas Rangers
- Go Tell Aunt Nancy - Almeda Riddle
- John Holland
- 5.Barbara Allen
- Little Lonie
- 2.Soldier of the Legion
- Locks and Bolts
- 4.Poor Wayfaring Stranger
- The Lonesome Dove
- 10.The Water is Wide
- 6.Come all ye Texas Rangers
- 7.The Orphan Girl
- The Brokedown Brakeman
- A Comical Ditty
- The Seashell Song
- Butcher Boy
- Babes In the Wood
- 3.Tom Sherman's Barroom
- Cockadoodledoo
- The Brisk Young Farmer
- Ten Thousand Miles Away
- The Blood of the Old Red Rooster
- Bury Me Beneath the Willow [#]
- 10.Little Rooster
- Frog Went-a-Courtin'
- The Last Fierce Charge
- 8.Children of the Heavenly King
- Wayfaring Stranger
- The Prodigal's Career
- 9.The Oxford Girl
- Allen Bain
- Froggy went a courtin
- My Little Rooster (Lp Version)
- Jesse James - Almeda Riddle
- Alan Rain
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