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| | Ballad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A ballad is a story in a song, usually a narrative song or poem. | | | Many modern written musical ballads are in the repertory of American folk music. | | | The regrets of love gone wrong provide the elements of the ballad called a 'torch song.' By extension, any popular song with a slow beat is termed a 'ballad.' In modern music, a song called a ballad is one which tells a story but may not follow any of the other conventions. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad
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| | upstatebeat.com: The Secret Life of the Murder Ballad |
| | Anybody who listens to country, folk or bluegrass music will be well acquainted with the story of handsome Tom Dula, a talented, fiddle-playing North Carolinian. | | | Like other songs in the folk tradition, murder ballads are constantly reworked and reinterpreted. | | | Although Cave frequently dismisses the work as a rushed project, the album combines new arrangements of traditional songs such as "Henry Lee," (a gorgeous duet with PJ Harvey) and originals like the 14-minute "O'Malley's Bar." In this song, Cave's protagonist waxes poetic as he mercilessly guns down all the patrons in the titular watering hole. |
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http://www.metrobeat.net/gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid:3249
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| | Murder Ballads |
| | "Murder Ballads" is the ninth studio album produced by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds during their illustrious twelve year career. | | | Over a musical backing of shuffling, spiked cocktail music, provided by the ever-versatile Bad Seeds, Cave narrates the allegorical tale of a deluded man's attempt to fulfil a spirtual quest by methodically gunning down all the ill-fated patrons of his local bar. | | | "Over those years I've written a number of songs I haven't felt comfortable with, but eventually we got to do this murder ballads record and it seemed absolutely appropriate to do a song with Kylie. |
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http://www.mutelibtech.com/mute/cave/murder.htm
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| | HIGH BIAS -- reissues |
| | Ballad Legacy is a collection of folklorist/historian Alan Lomax's recordings of Virginia folksinger Texas Gladden. | | | One of their most interesting duets is "Rose Connelly," an Irish murder ballad, on which Smith's fiddling manages to mimic Gladden's vocals as well as bagpipe phrasing. | | | Largely rendered a cappella in Gladden's untrained, coarsely pretty alto, the songs are frequently about murder ("Mary Hamilton," which is about infanticide), disease ("One Morning in May," which is about syphilis), and dealings with the devil (take your pick of several). |
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http://www.highbias.com/reviews/20020414_reissues.html
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| | Charles E. Owston, Murder, Betrayal and Death: Observations on Traditional Ballads |
| | Anyone who has listened to traditional British ballads to any degree will be aware of the recurring themes mentioned in the title of this book, an independently released labour of love. | | | And it won't be the last song on the subject, either, not so long as murder continues in real life. | | | A slight problem was found with the lack of an alphabetical song index. |
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http://www.greenmanreview.com/murder_betrayal_and_death.html
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| | Honey, Where You Been So Long? » Murder On Friday |
| | The first is a version of Poor Ellen Smith (perhaps the only murder ballad written by an actual murder) by Laura Cantrell off her new album Hummingbird Flower (the album is a lot better than the title, thankfully). | | | Laura Cantrell does have a beautiful voice, but I think that murder ballads are better sung by gritty, remorseful, vengeful, or bitter voices, male or female. | | | Two songs in particular have been running through my speakers a lot this week and both happen to be murder ballads, not that I’ve been feeling particularly murderous - but they’ve just caught my ear. |
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http://prewarblues.org/2005/07/murder-on-friday
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| | Essay 3 |
| | The common lyrical theme of murder, whether internalized or not, has been prevalent in many music styles during the last century. | | | John Hamerlinck has gone to great lengths to describe the “Murder Ballad” which has been a standard form of pop (popular) music. | | | “Murder Ballads” are playful tunes with disturbing lyrics. |
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http://daphne.palomar.edu/rlatas/ho/50/essay3women.htm
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| | Broadside Electric : Press Materials : Articles : Broadside, March/April 2001 |
| | But I do think that murder ballads past and present are appealing in that they package disturbing events into the neat framework of a song, in which it can be dealt with as a finite piece of entertainment, rather than just a messy abstraction. | | | It's hard to pick a favorite ballad (we do them because we like them, after all), but if forced to choose, I think my favorite, at least today, is probably 'Sheath and Knife' (from their album More Bad News... | | | I think most people respond to the music more than words. |
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http://www.broadside.org/press/articles/bside.html
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| | The Subgenre of Murder Ballads in the Street Literature of Britain |
| | There are also two other ballads, which, even though they did not have variations of either of the two previous phrases, do call out to their readers to listen to the tale they have to tell. | | | For example, a ballad titled "Frightful Murder of the Rev. Mr. | | | It its as though the criminal is saying "Don't forgive the criminal or the crime but at least listen toóand learn fromóthe story." |
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http://mh.cla.umn.edu/culler.html
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| | Variation and Stability in Two Murder Ballads of Placentia Bay, Newfoundland |
| | The high proportion of murder ballads would tend to indicate that such songs are significant in this tradition. | | | The opening stanza is a come-all-ye, a standard method of opening a traditional ballad in which the listeners' attention is requested. | | | Finally, the two ballads to be discussed, "Carolan Anderson" and "McCanning's Hanging," are native North American songs. |
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http://cjtm.icaap.org/content/12/v12art2.html
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| | Notes |
| | Ballads melodies can serve as the inspiration for new ballads | | | 9): American murder ballad composed in 1890s; composed by the accused murderer while waiting to be hanged; caused so much tension in the community that the song was banned | | | this ballad has its origins in African-American folklore: story and song itself related to work songs sung while building railroad across South; presents a kind of American hero: strong man who can outcompete technology |
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http://courses.washington.edu/music160/ballads2.html
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| | Willamette Week Online Music VERDICTS ON NEW MUSIC Album & Live Reviews (10/26/2005) |
| | Saturday night marked the ninth Night of the Murder Ballad, an annual event for which some of Portland's most well-loved musicians take the stage in a parade of dark elegance and play the songs of death and dyin'. | | | If anything, though, the traditional folk death ditty was the exception Saturday, as most of the bands preferred to play more contemporary songs with less reverence for the deceased. | | | [POST-MORTEM POP] "To me, murder ballads are all about folk music," said Jen Bernard from the Fez's stage Saturday night. |
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http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=6886&SOURCE=RSS
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| | The Renfrew Ballad of "Young Conway" |
| | As well as detailing a particular event this ballad tells its listeners a great deal about the kind of men, and the kind of times these were. | | | The date of departure given in the McCaffrey version is September 18, and the date in the family version is November 14. | | | Fowke collected four versions of this ballad: from Michael Cuddihey of Hull, Quebec, Emerson Woodcock of Peterborough, Ontario, Gertie Mercier of Foresters Falls, Ontario, and Mrs. |
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| | No. 15: Constance Kent and the Road murder |
| | The case of Margaret Bell, another woman who murdered her own child (in 1853), provoked at least two ballads, both told in first-person voice. | | | Also in 1876, George Hill, a groom, attacked his intended bride, Sarah Thrussell, and her child (by him), killing the child and leaving her for dead. | | | The first line here is echoed in several other ballads as discussed below. |
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http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/bbals_15.htm
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| | Portland Mercury - Music - Don't Fear The Reaper |
| | Seems to me they do I can name ten songs off the top of my head in which the woman just croaks from grief when her man gets killed, or else takes the dagger to her own chest. | | | There's this old song called "Polly Vaughn." A young man goes hunting by the lake and spies a white swan. | | | For six years now, every October, Portland has been treated to a spookariffic evening of diabolical music about death and killing. |
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http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=27839&category=22153
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| | "A day above ground is a good day". A review of Bob Dylan's "Love and theft" |
| | The last song on the album, "Sugar Baby", is a ‘Grand Ballad’ of the same cut as the closing songs on several Dylan albums. | | | Cave has also recorded an entire album of Murder Ballads (1996), which also included Dylan’s "Death is not the End".]. | | | Three lines in the middle of the song sound like a direct comment to "Floater": "I‘m preaching peace and harmony, the blessings of tranquility, yet I know when the time is right to strike." Perhaps should the song be seen in relation to the murder ballad tradition, as, e.g. |
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http://www.dylanchords.com/professors/a_day_above_ground.htm
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| | Las Vegas Mercury: Music: Murder ballad |
| | Murder suspect Slinkey might've killed a promising music career. | | | Indeed, when the double-murder suspect is extradited to Las Vegas, he'll not only face murder charges, but he'll confront the remains of a promising music career that showed every sign of taking off. | | | Talking to associates of Blake--from his promoter to fellow artists in the Vegas music scene--it seems the 33-year-old singer was poised to make a major splash in the R&B scene. |
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http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2003/MERC-Mar-13-Thu-2003/20856745.html
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| | :: Metro Pulse Online :: |
| | And while Roberts’ own material (he’s released several previous albums as a solo artist and with the band Appendix Out) is also a bit on the depressive side, he doesn’t | | | I have to say that, being British, and wanting to make music of Britain, whether by singing traditional songs or by writing songs informed by British landscape, myth, history, ‘the matter of Britain’ and so on, I’m more aware and knowledgeable of the British tradition than the American.” | | | His latest album, the Will Oldham-produced No Earthly Man (Drag City), features nothing but traditional murder ballads, in this case British tunes. |
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http://www.metropulse.com/articles/2005/15_39/music.shtml
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| | Mike Bennett Reviews: Fufkin.com: June, 2005 |
| | Indeed, there is just a kiss of R and B on this song that is heart tugging. | | | This being a country song, this could only end up one way...and another man ends up on death row. | | | This song comes from the same place as past Go-Betweens classics like "Bachelor Kisses", with an effortless summer melody that glistens with joy, yet offers a strong tinge of melancholy. |
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http://www.fufkin.com/columns/bennett/bennett_rev_06_05.htm
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| | MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada - "Wexford Girl" |
| | Peacock says it is a version of the Irish murder ballad, "The Worcester Tragedy." Power's tune is similar to that published by Peacock, but Aylward's is distinctly different, in triple metre, but heterometric in places, with musical accents on unaccented syllables. | | | Tune notes: Creighton notes that she heard this grim song performed as a lullaby in Nova Scotia. | | | This is a murder ballad recounted by the murderer who is about to die for his crime. |
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| | * Dusted Reviews - Seachange * |
| | Seachange opens The Lay of the Land with the most traditional of folk lyric forms: the murder ballad. | | | I’m uncertain about the rest of the song, though I heard something about a cultural fallout from English folk tradition in the ’60s and ’70s — it’s tough to tell through the screaming. | | | At least, part of “Anglokana” is a murder ballad, and since it concerns two young lovers alone in the woods, a fairly conventional murder ballad at that. |
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http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1421
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| | Paul Smith's List O'Names: Murder Ballad |
| | Ball, Ball, crime, crime, death, Murder, Murder, Murder, Murder, music, music, music, music, music, violence. | | | List O’Names, a list of names for things that need to be named |
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http://www.lightlink.com/wysiati/LON/m/murderballad.shtml
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| | Edward D. (Sandy) Ives, The Bonny Earl of Murray: The Man, the Murder, the Ballad |
| | Using this two-pronged approach, Professor Ives shows the reader how folk music -- and especially the ballad -- arises from historical events, but also how folk music in turn, shapes our collective understanding of history. | | | Mondegreens Ripped My Flesh and The Archive of Misheard Lyrics are but two of the many web pages devoted to Mondegreens.) | | | He also traces the path of the ballad through history, following it through stanza shuffles and tune modifications, on and off the concert stage. |
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http://www.greenmanreview.com/bonnie_earl.html
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| | purevolume™ The Murder Ballad |
| | All songs, lyrics and pictures © 2005 The Murder Ballad. | | | You must be logged in as a “LISTENER” to add comments. |
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http://www.purevolume.com/themurderballad
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| | UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures |
| | Currently completing work on her first album, tentatively entitled “The Murdered Girl” — to be released in the second quarter of 2005 on Organic Music | | | Currently filming a documentary on the “Murdered Girl” in American culture/Appalachian balladry Currently producing, directing and performing in a music video for “Pretty Polly” | | | Pierson, Raige E. (2003, October) Performing the Politics of Love: “Pretty Polly,” a West Virginia Murder Ballad. |
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| | Murder Ballad list |
| | Yeah, it is Fairport Convention's signature tune, but hey, BiL'd do a stellar job, I'm sure. | | | Actually, if I had my 'druthers, I'd love to hear BiL do "1952 Vincent Black Lightning". | | | But let's see you folks get ready to almost graduate while working 40 hours a week. |
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http://www.apocalypse.org/leadheads/leadheads-mail/08-95/msg00095.html
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| | Murder Ballad Review |
| | If you've heard the last three Bad Seeds records, you might have some idea of the lyrical and musical scope that awaits you on Murder Ballads. | | | For their part, the Bad Seeds have produced a rich score which is as diverse and extreme as their leader's stories, seamlessly skipping from grinding blues to joyous jigs to chaotic white noise to imaginative blends of all of the above. | | | But that guy's made to look like a killing amateur when we hear 15-year-old Loretta account how she inspired the Curse of Millhaven by taking 23 lives - and that's excluding her little venture into arson which alone caused the "biggest shit-fight this country's ever seen." |
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http://www.bad-seed.org/~cave/reviews/music/96-02_rollingstone_mb.html
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| | Title Browse Results - Broadsides at the National Library of Scotland |
| | This ballad begins: 'Come all Reformers of the Town, / Since Jeffrey now has got the Gown, / And pitch your voice to the highest tone, / To sing huzza for Aytoun.' It was advertised as a new song and was to be sung to the tune of 'Arethusa'. | | | This political ballad begins: 'The Whigs think they are grand and great, / But O! they're proud and idly gaudy, / How much unlike the mainly gait / Of Aytoun our dear Union Laddie!' A note below the title states that the ballad should be sung to the air, 'The New Highland Laddie'. | | | Published in Edinburgh for John Lyons, this broadside sold for a penny. |
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http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/title.cfm?startRow=61&LETTER=M
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| | Murder Ballad Review |
| | Knowing that, this album, which details in song a great number of assassinations, does not represent a new start for the lanky Australian. | | | The French daily Liberation reviewed Murder Ballads in their recent Saturday 27/Sunday 28 issue. | | | There's always been as much murder in Nick Cave's songs than sex in Prince's. |
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http://www.bad-seed.org/~cave/reviews/music/96-01-27_liberation_mb.html
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| | Devil Winston [Laws I7] |
| | His career of reckless lawlessness culminated when he was thirty-two years old, in the vicious murder of Vinie Stubblefield, his sweetheart. | | | When he was not on the river he was often serving time on the 'chain gang' for beating the woman, and the murder occurred just following his release from jail for this offense." - RBW | | | The Ballad Index Copyright 2006 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. |
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http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/ballads/LI07.html
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| | Amazon.ca: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings [Best of] [Box set] [Enhanced]: Music |
| | His accounts of the music and his performances, from "King Porter Stomp" to the lengthy "Murder Ballad," provide a brilliant window on the mechanics and progress of jazz in its earliest years. | | | The sound restoration is excellent and the complete package--cover art by R. Crumb, a piano-shaped box, a reprinting of Lomax's groundbreaking book Mister Jelly Roll, and an additional book with an essay by John Szwed and extensive photographs--befits a document of this significance. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000AOF9W0
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| | MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada - "A Jealous Lover" |
| | History: Probably originating in the United States, since it is popular in Canada and the US but not found in the British Isles (Fowke 1994); | | | Text notes: A seduction-murder ballad probably fictional though sometimes linked to the murder of Pearl Bryan in Kentucky in 1896. | | | Tune notes: Mary Dunphy and Therese White each sang a different tune, although both are in triple metre and have an abab stanza form. |
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http://collections.ic.gc.ca/leach/songs/NFLD1/2-04.htm
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| | CANOE -- JAM! Music: Review: Heads, Charles, Band box sets |
| | As he ambles down memory lane, Morton accompanies himself on the piano, illustrating his stories in what amounts to the very first Storytellers episode. | | | Only much of this probably wouldn't make it to air; as he warms to his interviewer (and to the whiskey), Morton dishes up ribald cuts like The Dirty Dozens, If You Don't Shake You Get no Cake and a long, expletive-laced Murder Ballad. |
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http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2005/10/20/1270957-sun.html
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