Collector, author, singer, scholar, and founder of the West Virginia State Folk Festival, Dr. Patrick W. Gainer is quoted in many Mudcat threads and many of his finds are in the DT. I think it's time he had his own thread.   

He collected about 50 Child ballads in West Virginia. Here http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/wvconline/patrickgainer.htm
are his comments about, and recordings of, a few of them. The ballads included here are:

#1      ("Riddles Wisely Expounded"/"The Devil's Questions"),
#2A   ("The Elfin Knight"/"Are Any of You Going to the Calhoun Fair")
#2B   ("Oh Where Are You Going"),
#4      ("Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight"/"The Six Kings' Daughters"),
#7      ("Earl Brand"/"The Seven Sons"),
#10A   ("The Twa Sisters"/"The Sister's Murder")
#10B   (introductory comments only, the singing is from his source, Maggie Hammons),
#11      ("The Cruel Brother"/"The Bride's Murder"),
#12A   ("John Randall"/"John Ellis My Son")
#12B   ("Johnny Randall")
#12C   (a children's version), and
#13      ("Edward"/"The Father's Murder")

I hope you enjoy them.

Kent