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GUEST,EKanne Taking on the Big Boys? - classic big long ballads (549* d) RE: Taking on the Big Boys? - classic big long bal 19 Jan 10

Crow Sister spoke of tackling ballads with "gentleness and humility", and while I'm absolutely in agreement with the notion of humility, I'm not sure what is meant by gentleness. I'd appreciate some elucidation.
Other posts spoke of not over-dramatising and not using the song as a vehicle for instrumental prowess.
Now I have no problem with the latter, having never played an instrument, and I hope I don't over-dramatise -- but for some of the ballads I sing (Lamkin, The Twa Sisters, Lord Donald/Randal, The Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie, Lizzie Wan and possibly others) I do need 'access' to a harder edge. This is not a calculated, rehearsed 'performance', but rather where the story takes me.
So "gentleness" threw me!
Help, please, Crow Sister.

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