DEVIL'S NINE QUESTIONS, THE

Created on 23/09/2022
Latest update on 21/09/2023

Artist: Texas Gladden
Author: traditional
Label: Blue Ridge Institute
Year: 1941

Lomax recording in Salem, Virginia, first released on Virginia Traditions series: Ballads From British Origin. Child #1, Roud #161 (also as Riddles Wisely Expounded, The Three Sisters and Bow Down To The Bonny Broom).

Covers:

1947:

Burl Ives

1956:

Paul Clayton & Jean Ritchie

1956:

Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger

1967:

Jean Ritchie & Oscar Brand

1969:

Cyril Tawney [as The Three Sisters]

1980:

Steeleye Span [as Tell Me Why]

1982:

Jean Redpath

2005:

John Kirkpatrick [as Bow Down To The Bonny Broom]

2011:

Jon Boden [as Juniper, Gentle & Rosemary]

Contact


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Arnold Rypens
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