| The smoky ballads, jump blues, shuffles and straight-blues numbers on the new disc showcase the exceptional voice of Magness. |
| Pipe tunes, mouth music, jigs and reels nestle alongside songs and ballads, most originating from Fowlis' native South Uist. |
| It drew from African chants, ballads, church music and jump-up dance tunes. |
| Their roots were firmly in the ballads and traditional music in the early days. |
| Narrative folk ballads of Mexican origin typically have regular metrical features such as rhyming quatrains and use traditional imagery. |
| There are ballads, blues and western swing, and Burch describes it as music you might hear in a dream and try in vain to remember in the morning. |
