Ballads

Ballads collected by Sir Francis Child http://www.contemplator.com/child/index.html http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/index.htm http://youtube.com/watch?v=ua0QuXO4wgE

Lomaxes http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lorecexp.html http://www.loc.gov/folklife/lomax/

Digital Library of Appalachia--has loads of field recordings http://www.aca-dla.org/

Cowboy songs http://lonehand.com/cowboy_songs.htm#S http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/five/songs.htm http://youtube.com/watch?v=ziTIh_iaBNI Wreck of the Old 97 http://lol2.homestead.com/old97.html

Roots of Country Music: Carter family http://youtube.com/watch?v=IDVNRJ227lU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Family

Murder ballads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_ballad http://www.lyricsdownload.com/louvin-brothers-knoxville-girl-lyrics.html http://youtube.com/watch?v=YvXGLym-llE

Titanic [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Titanic_(song)] Amelia Earhart http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=247 http://youtube.com/watch?v=KgJo2JnBYqU Floyd Collins http://bluegrassgrotto.org/floyd-c.html