Ballads? Ballads?
Those ain’t ballads.
These are ballads:
Marty Robbins - Ballad of the Alamo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL62m5umP4g
Gordon Lightfoot The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (with lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U219P_zs7w&feature=related
SSgt Barry Sadler - “The Ballad of the Green Berets” (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y5GDvN9_OE
Evidently RS doesn’t know what makes a ballad. A ballad tells a story and/or makes a tribute. A ballad is usually slow and rhythmic and/or hauntingly melodic, often sad but inspirational, and always soul moving, tugging on the heartstrings.
At least, that’s how I define ballad.
Ballads? We don’t need no stinkin’ ballads!
I heard Marty’s Love Me, Or Leave Me Alone the other day on WSM...what a song.
My dad knew Marty...nice man.