| 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. |
| Pipe tunes, mouth music, jigs and reels nestle alongside songs and ballads, most originating from Fowlis' native South Uist. |
| Mournful, quietly ecstatic ballads alternate with more riff based, rhythmically insistent workouts. |
| Like ballads, libellous rhymes and verses were intended for circulation across oral, scribal, and printed media. |
| 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. |
