Right you are, Jean! I had neglected "Unquiet Grave," one of my favorites. I recorded the version that Helen Hartness Flanders collected from Lily Delorme in the Adirondacks on the album Caroline and I made donkey's years ago, (Folk-Legacy EGO-30), now only available as a custom cassette. Folks might want to check out "Rolling of the Stones" on our CD compilation of Bok, Muir & Trickett songs: The First Fifteen Years, Vol.II. It's also sung by Joe Hickerson (from whom they learned it) on Drive Dull Care Away, Vol.1, which is available as a cassette. The Vermont version of "Reynardine" (Ranardine) that most of us learned from Margaret MacArthur is led by Joe Hickerson on the Folk-Legacy "sampler" titled The Continuing Tradition, mentioned in my previous post. I suppose the trip to hell and back by "The Farmer's Curst Wife" would qualify that as a supernatural reference (as Jean suggests in her note). There are several versions on Folk-Legacy: Lawrence Older sings an Adirondack version called "Randy Riley (C-15)," Hobart Smith sings a Virginia version on his C-17 cassette (soon to be on CD), Lena Armstrong sings a North Carolina version on The Traditional Music of Beech Mountain. Jean's sister, Edna, recorded a Ritchie Family version of the "Cherry Tree Carol" titled "As Joseph Was a-Walking" on her Folk-Legacy album, now available as a cassette (C-3).

Jeez! I'm amazed at how many of them there are. I have probably overlooked a number of 'em, too. Maybe I ought to assemble a bunch of them onto a single CD and satisfy the question asked at the beginning of this thread! I don't know of another CD of supernatural material devoted exclusively to American versions. John and Tony's Dark Ships in the Forest includes British versions, along with a few American, so their CD is but a partial answer to the initial request.

Sandy