Almeda Riddle and Mance Lipscomb at the 1970 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

At the 1970 Festival of American Folklife (now the Smithsonian Folklife Festival) on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Ozarks-based ballad singer Almeda Riddle joined Texas blues guitar legend Mance Lipscomb on stage to sing “The Four Marys.” Read the story of how the collaboration came to be, and how it was uncovered in the archives: https://festival.si.edu/blog/archives... Photos: Almeda Riddle at the 1983 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives Mance Lipscomb at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Photo by Diana J. Davies, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives FP-1970-7RR-0023, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives © Smithsonian