Child Ballads unites Anaïs Mitchell with longtime friend and collaborator Jefferson Hamer, recording a series of traditional English and Scottish ballads (known collectively as the Child Ballads, which were compiled by Francis James Child), and produced by legendary Nashville producer-engineer Gary Paczosa.

 

“The playing is exquisite, the singing vibrant, the arrangements like jewellery. It is absolutely beautiful.” - Independent on Sunday

 

“One of those albums that come out of nowhere to quietly stake its claim as a modern classic.” - The Times