About Dellie Norton
Dellie Norton sang the old, unaccompanied ballads and love songs passed down from her family and other members of her Blue Ridge Mountain community; in her own 91 years, she helped spread the songs to younger generations and gained national recognition as a ballad singer. Her singing style featured elaborate and spontaneous ornamentation, highlighted by vocal hiccups and elongated notes; her repertoire consisted largely of English and Scottish ballads like "The House Carpenter" and "The Silk Merchant's Daughter.
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Top Tracks
The Silk Merchant's Daughter
Young Emily
Early, Early in the Spring
When I Wore My Apron Low
Pretty Fair Miss In Her Garden
When I Wore My Apron Low [a fragment of "Love Has Brought Me to Dispair"]
Young Emily [aka "Young Edmond in the Lowland Low" and "The Driver Boy"]
Pretty Fair Miss In Her Garden [aka "The Broken Token"]
Little Honey
Little Sparrow
Little Mohee
The Dying Boy
A Soldier Traveling from the North
Silk Merchant's Daughter
Dellie Norton talks with Allen Tullos
When I Wore My Apron Low [#]
The Silk Merchants Daughter
Interview with Mike Harding / Meeting Song
The Silk Merchant's Daughter (1965)
Pretty Fair Miss in Her Garden [#]
Young Emily [#]
02 - The Silk Merchant's Daughter - Dellie Norton, Sodom, NC
Early in the Spring
The Silk Merchant's Daughter, Sodom, NC
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Young Emily, Sodom, NC
The Silk Merchant's Daughter (Sodom, NC)
Young Emily (Sodom, NC)
Silk Merchant's Daughter - Dellie Norton
The Silk Merchant's Daughter - Dellie Norton
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