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Sheila Kay Adams
12+ albums
balladsfolkappalachianfemale vocalistsMurder ballad
about
Sheila Kay Adams is an American folk musician from the Sodom Laurel community in Madison County, North Carolina. Adams learned to sing from her great-aunt Dellie Chandler Norton and other notable singers in the community such as Dillard Chandler and members of the Wallin Family. She began performing in public in her teens, and throughout her career she has performed at festivals, events, music camps, and workshops around the United States and the United Kingdom. Adams performs ballads from English, Scottish, and Irish traditions as she learned them from her ancestors, as well as innovating other tunes with a signature drop-thumb clawhammer style on the five-string banjo. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
albums
My Dearest Dear
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All the Other Fine Things
Come Go Home With Me
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Song Links 2
Root Hog Or Die: An Alan Lomax Centennial Tribute
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Alan Lomax's American Patchwork
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Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition
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Song Links, Vol. 2: A Celebration of Traditional Songs and Their American Variants
Live At the International Storytelling Festival
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Loving Forward, Loving Back
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Alan Lomax's American Patchwork (2021, Mississippi)
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Sidmouth Folk Week (2016) - Clawammer Banjo Workshop (2016)