National Adoption Day is the Saturday before Thanksgiving, except when it isn't.
Folk artists who were adopted:
Folk artists who have adopted children:
David Massengill\ Rider on an Orphan Train Gillian Welch\ No One Knows My Name\ Soul Journey\ Acony Joe Giacoio\ Flesh and Blood\ I Sing the Body Acoustic\ Romantic Devil Ginny Hawker & Tracy Schwarz\ Poor Orphan Child\ Draw Closer\ Rounder Kamm & MacDonald - All this Time - Fields of Elysian Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin\ The Orphan Child\ A Song That Will Linger\ Rounder Peter Ostroushko\ I'm So Glad You Came Into My Life\ Pilgrims on the Heart Road\ Red House Daddy Treetops\ Motherless Children\ Short Stories, Tall Tales\ Treetopia Motherless Children \ HERMAN E JOHNSON \ Louisiana Country Blues \ Arhoolie Mary McCaslin / Someone Who Looks Like Me / Broken Promises (Mary was 27 or 28 when she found out that she was adopted.) Lucy Kaplansky / This is Home / Red Thread (Red House) (Lucy and her husband adopted a Chinese girl ca. 2002.) Gillian Welch / Orphan Girl Utah Phillips / Orphan Train John McCutcheon / Happy Adoption Day Dixie Chicks\ Godspeed (Sweet Dreams)\ Home\ Columbia Jamie Anderson / Pictures for Mama / Drive All Night Jamie Anderson / With My Smile / Drive All Night
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