
Almeda Riddle - My Little Rooster (1959) In my modest opinion, the fourth disc in the box set Sounds Of The South is musically speaking the least interesting, although it has an undeniable documentary value. Most of the performers were already present on the previous cds, but there are newcomers like Almeda Riddle (photo above), an unacompanied folk singer from Arkansas who sings 5 old nursery rhymes in a traditional way. Among them "My little Rooster", "Frog Went a-Courting" or "Go Tell Aunt Nancy", a song [...]