"Winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians Award Jane
Hicks Gentry lived her entire life in the remote, mountainous
northwest corner of North Carolina and was descended from old
Appalachian families in which singing and storytelling were part of
everyday life. Gentry took this tradition to heart, and her legacy
includes ballads, songs, stories, and riddles. Smith provides a
full biography of this vibrant woman and the tradition into which
she was born, presenting seventy of Gentry's songs and fifteen of
the "Jack" tales she learned from her grandfather. When Englishman
Cecil Sharp traveled through the South gathering material for his
famous English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, his most
generous informant was Jane Hicks Gentry. But despite her
importance in Sharp's collection, Gentry has remained only a name
on his pages. Now Betty Smith, herself a folksinger, brings to life
this remarkable artist and her songs and tales.
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