Almeda Riddle has been played on NTS in shows including Cong Burn, featured first on 30 October 2015. Songs played include My Little Rooster, How Firm A Foundation and Bury Me Beneath the Willow.

Almeda Riddle (November 21, 1898, Cleburne County, AR, USA - June 30, 1986) was an American folk singer. Born and raised in Cleburne County, Arkansas, she learned music from her father, a fiddler and singing teacher. She collected and sang traditional ballads throughout her life, usually unaccompanied. Introduced to a wider public by folklorist John Quincy Wolfe and musicologist Alan Lomax, Riddle recorded extensively, and claimed to be able to perform over…