Rosalie Sorrels

Rosalie Sorrels' is a collector and performer of traditional American folk songs, but in all her music, traditional and original, there is a deeply personal vein. Sorrels' music is about loss and survival; when she was 16, she had an illegal abortion; when she was 17, she gave up a child for adoption; she married and had five children, left her husband and struggled to raise her family alone, and ...more