Francis Child Collected Ballads and Kicked Off a Craze

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.comThis episode covers James Francis Child himself, how he came to collect British ballads and how they were published. We also discuss the recording career of Woodrow Wilson’s First Lady who was the second person to commercially record a Child Ballad, and the discovery of Child Ballads in the American South.