folk ballads

And there was Crosby, shooting his drugs and shooting his guns, singing these folk ballads that sounded as if they’d fallen into Laurel Canyon from someplace better than heaven.

His repertoire included Japanese folk ballads on which he was accompanied by a shakuhachi, or bamboo flute.

In the mid-60s Dylan complained that he had never written anything as “far out” as the strangest folk ballads, but on Desolation Row, he succeeded in taking the ballad form to a completely new place.

Woody Guthrie’s folk ballads from the 1930s and 1940s often commented on the plight of the working class.

Joan has accompanied me throughout life since I first heard her crystalline voice singing old folk ballads at the age of seven.