re: The burning ballad. True story.. I was not there, but I know several who were, and knew the victim... who passed on a few years ago.
At an FSGW sing he dug out that same song again, (a long, tuneless thing about chopping up someone's kids and serving them in a stew, as I remember). We 'almost' reenacted the incident. I slid toward him (we all were sitting on the floor) and someone who knew the story tossed me a book of matches, but the paper was on the ground, and he never even looked up!

There is an obit page here on Mudcat, but I won't bother this thread with it. Suffice it to say, if you sing LONG songs, better be good at it.