Hosts Nate Wilcox and Dave Thompson continue their mini-series discussing Dave's book An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music -- buy the book to support the show.

This episode covers Francis James Child himself and how the whole ballad collecting thing went big time, with the trend impacting the recording career of Woodrow Wilson's first lady, one of America's first female astronomers and many more.

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