Charles Frazier's current best-seller COLD MOUNTAIN contains references to and quotes from several ballads, including the Twa/Three Corbies, and Fair Margaret and Sweet William. There's a chapter entitled "Bride Bed Full of Blood", a quote from that last ballad. And there arelots of fiddle tunes. The novel is set in North Carolina during the American Civil War/War Between the States. Period music figures prominently throughout, and one character in particular becomes an expert fiddler, with much discussion on the ability of a good folk song or tune to move the listener's mind to a higher plane.