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.
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
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