Almeda Riddle

Almeda Riddle (November 21, 1898 – June 30, 1986) was an American folk singer. She collected and sang traditional ballads throughout her life, usually unaccompanied. Some of Riddle's songs range back to 17th-century Ireland, England, and Scotland. Introduced to a wider public by folklorist John Quincy Wolf and musicologist Alan Lomax, Riddle recorded extensively, and she knew somewhere between 500 and 600 songs. In her old age, she was often known as Granny Riddle.