| Their music was tried-and-true funky soul and bar-band balladry, and not a lick of it was ever going to see the top 40 if Brown could help it. |
| Three chords have given us country songs, Irish pub balladry, prog, funk and more. |
| But there are peripheral kinds of ballads that must also be noticed in order to give a survey of balladry. |
| Seiffert's free verse is not as good as her debonair balladry, nor are the poems of Elijah Hay equal to those of Emanuel Morgan or Anne Knish. |
| The mix of fuzzy guitar anthems and geek-boy balladry is nothing new, but the fun is in the details. |
| Stylistically, it tries to cover all bases, from spiky indie rock to reggae, with a touch of acoustic balladry and even rap. |
