Review - Musical journey from Scotland, Ireland to Appalachia explored [View all]

This sounds great and the price is reasonable.

Wayfaring Strangers - The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
By Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr
University of North Carolina Press, $39.95
Release date: Sept. 29

Review - Musical journey from Scotland, Ireland to Appalachia explored
By Ben Steelman
StarNewsOnline.com
Published: Sunday, September 7, 2014

It's no secret that a lot of what Americans know as country, folk or roots music was imported more or less directly from Scotland and Northern Ireland in the 1700s and early 1800s.

Very few, however, have told this story so well, or so extensively, as Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr in "Wayfaring Strangers," a gorgeous new coffee-table-sized volume from the University of North Carolina Press.

Profusely illustrated – and where else can you find Doc Watson and the Carter Family rubbing shoulders with Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott? – the volume also comes with a CD with 20 cuts sampling the Celtic-Appalachian connection. (Among the artists: Dolly Parton, who also wrote the foreword; Dougie McLean, Pete Seeger, Doc Watson, Jean Ritchie and David Holt.)

Ritchie, of course, is the Scottish-born host of the long-running National Public Radio series "The Thistle and Shamrock." (WHQR, alas, chose to drop the show some years back, but you can still listen in online.) Orr, a president emeritus of Warren Wilson College in Asheville, was one of the founders of Charlotte public radio station WFAE, which for years was Ritchie's flagship....

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