An early favorite of mine for her 78s and her Columbia LP "Songs of the Auvergne" — the first 12" LP I ever owned, laid out as follows:
Side 1: classical settings of Canteloube's arty treatments of Auvergne songs (hers are prettier than anyone's—Natania Devrath et al lack her charm—if not very true to the brazen Auvergne traditional vocal style). Side 2: her performances of traditional songs including Zebra Dun, Next Market Day and the first recorded version of "Pretty Little Turtle Dove," which she learned from (I think) Bascom Lamar Lunsford, and subsequently made into a much-covered folk standard.
I remember seeing her in concert around 1958, at Smith College if I remember correctly, and going backstage afterward to talk. Though she seemed tired (this was the late 50s, and her vogue had already passed, despite her recent Elektra album that reintroduced her and found her a new audience), she was unfailingly nice, unpretentious ... and had one of the sweetest voices I ever heard.
Oh, and Art, that "fairy was laughing too" line comes from "The Leprechaun," which Richard Dyer-Bennett also recorded ... I think Susan may have gotten it from him. It begins "In a shady nook one moonlight night a leprechaun I spied ..."
Wish that Folk-Legacy album had happened. There is all too little remaining of Susan Reed. That radio interview done from her shop is striking and memorable, a radiant visit with an artist who kept her freshness and buoyancy all her life.