| Pipe tunes, mouth music, jigs and reels nestle alongside songs and ballads, most originating from Fowlis' native South Uist. |
| Like ballads, libellous rhymes and verses were intended for circulation across oral, scribal, and printed media. |
| Shame he seems to have to rely on wheedlingly bland ballads to keep him on the radio though. |
| Their roots were firmly in the ballads and traditional music in the early days. |
| 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. |
| Narrative folk ballads of Mexican origin typically have regular metrical features such as rhyming quatrains and use traditional imagery. |
