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

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 500…