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

  1. My Little Rooster
  2. Poor Wayfaring Stranger
  3. Chick-A-Li-Lee-Lo
  4. Frog Went A-Courtin'
  5. Jesse James
  6. Hangman Tree
  7. Mama Buy Me A Chiney Doll
  8. Go Tell Aunt Nancy
  9. Lonesome Dove
  10. Rainbow Mid Life's Willows - Remastered
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  1. Lonesome Dove - Remastered
  2. Bury Me Beneath the Willow
  3. Rainbow Mid Life's Willows
  4. I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger
  5. Frog Went a Courtin'
  6. I Love My Little Rooster
  7. Merry Golden Tree
  8. The Titanic
  9. Down In Arkansas
  10. The House Carpenter
  11. Rainbow 'Mid Life's Willows
  12. Rainbow Mid Life's Willows (Remastered)
  13. Alan Bain
  14. Tom Sherman's Barroom
  15. Soldier of the Legion
  16. The Oxford Girl
  17. Chick-a-la-lee-o
  18. Barbara Allen
  19. Black Jack Davey
  20. The Two Lovers
  21. The Orphan Girl
  22. The Water Is Wide
  23. Lonesome Dove (Remastered)
  24. My Little Rooster (Ost Gummo)
  25. Children of the Heavenly King
  26. Will the Weaver
  27. Babes in the woods
  28. Amazing Grace
  29. Come Thou, Fount of Every Blessing
  30. Worldwide Peace
  31. Come All You Texas Rangers
  32. My Old Cottage Home
  33. There is a happy land
  34. How Firm a Foundation
  35. Froggie Went A-Courtin'
  36. Sons of Sorrow
  37. Twilight is Stealing
  38. Star of Bethleem
  39. Sweet Rivers
  40. Vain World, Adieu
  41. They sang that old-time religion
  42. Time as made a change in me
  43. I'm a Long Time Traveling Here Below
  44. Babes inthe wood
  45. Little Rooster
  46. I'm a Long Time Travelling Here Below
  47. House Carpenter
  48. My Little Rooster - Almeda Riddle
  49. 1.Frog went a-courtin'
  50. Mama, buy me a Chiney Doll
  51. Mama Buy Me Chiney Doll
  52. Frog Went A-Courtin' - Almeda Riddle
  53. Chick-A-Li-Lee-Lo - Almeda Riddle
  54. My Little Rooster ( OST Гуммо)
  55. Mama Buy Me A Chiney Doll - Almeda Riddle
  56. Come all ye Texas Rangers
  57. Go Tell Aunt Nancy - Almeda Riddle
  58. John Holland
  59. 5.Barbara Allen
  60. Little Lonie
  61. 2.Soldier of the Legion
  62. Locks and Bolts
  63. 4.Poor Wayfaring Stranger
  64. The Lonesome Dove
  65. 10.The Water is Wide
  66. 6.Come all ye Texas Rangers
  67. 7.The Orphan Girl
  68. The Brokedown Brakeman
  69. A Comical Ditty
  70. The Seashell Song
  71. Butcher Boy
  72. Babes In the Wood
  73. 3.Tom Sherman's Barroom
  74. Cockadoodledoo
  75. The Brisk Young Farmer
  76. Ten Thousand Miles Away
  77. The Blood of the Old Red Rooster
  78. Bury Me Beneath the Willow [#]
  79. 10.Little Rooster
  80. Frog Went-a-Courtin'
  81. The Last Fierce Charge
  82. 8.Children of the Heavenly King
  83. Wayfaring Stranger
  84. The Prodigal's Career
  85. 9.The Oxford Girl
  86. Allen Bain
  87. Froggy went a courtin
  88. My Little Rooster (Lp Version)
  89. Jesse James - Almeda Riddle
  90. Alan Rain

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