Francis Child Collected Ballads and Kicked Off a Craze: Let It Roll From the Beginning 1.12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.comWe’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter. In this episode, host Nate Wilcox welcomes back Dave Thompson to continue discussing Dave’s book ⁠An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music⁠.This episode covers James Francis Child himself, how he came to collect British ballad…