Ballads, in the Unaccompanied Tradition

by Melissa Sites

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1.	Careless Love 05:07	info	buy track
2.	He Moved through the Fair 02:45	info	buy track
3.	Pretty Fair Miss 03:43	info	buy track
4.	Wondrous Love 02:11	info	buy track
5.	In My Time Of Dying 02:15	info	buy track
6.	Whiskey in the Jar 03:43	info	buy track
7.	Little Farmer Boy 03:50	info	buy track
8.	In the Pines 02:49	info	buy track
9.	O Death 03:46	info	buy track
10.	Lord Randall 04:04	info	buy track
11.	The Cherry Tree Carol 02:13	info	buy track
12.	Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies 02:54	info	buy track
13.	There'll Be No Sorrow There 04:00		buy track
14.	Possum Up a Simmon Tree 01:46	info	buy track

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Melissa sings ballads: traditional to modern, with Appalachian, Celtic, and African-American inflections. From plaintive lamentations to roots rock in the raw, it's Old Time for our time.

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released August 20, 2013

Recorded by Dawn Dineen at Yarner Studios, College Park, Maryland.

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Melissa Sites Greenbelt, Maryland

Born and raised in West Virginia, Melissa is a classically trained singer with ballads in her soul. Melissa first studied the ballad tradition at Augusta Heritage Workshops under Sheila Kay Adams, and has been singing the unaccompanied style for over fifteen years. ... more

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