Murder ballads are a major part of the tradition of bluegrass. These four songs of love, jealousy, and death are among the best.

I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the time I was interested in the ...

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 ...

This one is done. The ballad is one of the oldest forms of poetry in the English language. Across Europe, ballads were sung and performed to ordinary people and noble people alike. People ...

Members of Fairport, Steeleye, The Watersons, The Dransfields and Nic Jones head a distinguished cast playing and acting out epic English ballads. Although it's far less well known, No Roses is ...