Supernatural Ballads....??

Subject: RE: Supernatural Ballads....??
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 12:17 PM

Annimaterra, You might include a () after the printed, BOO! (Yell as loudly as you can), or, (Your best scream). When I first recorded it, in Ed Canby's Greenwich Villge flat, he wouldn't let me scream because he was afraid it would injure his microphone, so, that wiggly funny noise is Ed himself, and it came out something like a horse's whinny, "Nyyyyyyyynynyny!" I've always regretted that I let him do that. I think that by the time of the JR Concert tape recording, microphones were hardier and I did a good hefty yell. Jean

Subject: RE: Supernatural Ballads....??
From: IanC
Date: 24 Oct 01 - 11:01 AM

Bill

It's "Goblin" in quite a few of the trad versions. Stow Fair is one.

Subject: RE: Supernatural Ballads....??
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 24 Oct 01 - 05:17 PM

Well, I'd like to hear John Nolan's story of his downfall at Tufts. Why such a sad experience, John?

Subject: RE: Supernatural Ballads....??
From: GUEST,Eclipse
Date: 24 Oct 01 - 05:28 PM

A Sort of Supernatral themed song Suzanna Martin (About the Salem witch trials) I don't think it's a traditional song, but don't know much about it (other then having heard it) -Eclipse

Subject: RE: Supernatural Ballads....??
From: open mike
Date: 22 Sep 06 - 01:29 AM

refreshing this for halloween....

Subject: RE: Supernatural Ballads....??
From: Scoville
Date: 22 Sep 06 - 09:46 AM

The bluegrass song "Bringing Mary Home" is a vanishing hitchhiker tale.

I've got a Bob Beers record somewhere that has "the Black-Haired Lass" on it, but I think that's probably an English song.

I once wrote one based on the old story "Cold as Clay" but, unfortunately, it was crap. Oh, well.

Subject: RE: Supernatural Ballads....??
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 22 Sep 06 - 10:16 AM

Anybody mention "Farmer's Curst Wife?" I think that qualifies.

Subject: RE: Supernatural Ballads....??
From: Charmain
Date: 22 Sep 06 - 07:24 PM

Don't think they're American but they could be Americanised if needed

Lowlands
Unquiet Grave
The Bay of Biscay

Also - Tam Lin - you might find it hard to do much to that one though - resolutely Anglo-Celtic I reckon!

Subject: RE: Supernatural Ballads....??
From: Susan of DT
Date: 22 Sep 06 - 07:44 PM

I use the keyword myth in the digital tradition for anything from devils to unicorns, ghosts, silkies, etc.

Subject: RE: Supernatural Ballads....??
From: GUEST,Kent Davis
Date: 23 Sep 06 - 12:15 AM

"Dream of the Miner's Child" involves a premonition of disaster.

Subject: RE: Supernatural Ballads....??
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 02 Jan 23 - 12:42 PM

“The Legend of the Pale-Eyed Companion” by Lawrence Hammond.

Subject: RE: Supernatural Ballads....??
From: GUEST,Anne Lister sans cookie
Date: 02 Jan 23 - 04:55 PM

On my album, "A Twist in the Story", you'll find my song "The Ghost" based entirely on stories told to me by three different women in a women's prison. Bearing in mind that the only men in a women's prison would be prison personnel in uniform, the three stories (from women who had not previously met each other) were pretty convincing. You can find it on Bandcamp, by the way.

Subject: RE: Supernatural Ballads....??
From: GUEST,The Og
Date: 03 Jan 23 - 01:37 PM

"The Ghost of Eli Renfrow". on the Nashville Bluegrass Band's The Boys are Back in Town CD

Subject: RE: Supernatural Ballads....??
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Jan 23 - 11:11 AM

All ghost ballads
All god songs and songs about mythical beasts or cryptoids
All talking to the dead songs, witchcraft fantasy fairy orc etc songs

Love the genre (ok maybe not the God songs)! I sing heaps of ghost ballads. We had a record... Dean Gitter? Paul Clayton?