It is not the first “murder ballad,” a subgenre of the traditional ballad with a crime or a gruesome death as the theme. “L.A. County” by Lyle Lovett and “Red Headed Stranger” by Willie Nelson are a ...

Three days after stumping the crowd at Belfast's Waterfront Hall by playing Van Morrison's 2016 supreme deep cut "Going Down to Bangor," Bob Dylan went significantly further back in music history - ...

IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

The music from major new Scottish folk musical Ballad Lines will be released as an ambitious 18 track concept album on 12th September, bringing together leading female folk and theatre artists from ...

Indhold: The bonnie wee lassie who never said no ; What a voice ; My plaidie's awa' ; The gypsy laddies ; When I was no but sweet sixteen ; MacCrimmin's lament ; Roy's wife of Aldivalloch ; Lord Lovat ...

When Brian the farmer finished his poem the crowd went wild. Small wonder he earned the People’s Choice Award on the night. We were at a so-called poetry “slam” at a country hall in a place so tiny it ...