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...courtesy of the road, in truth as in ballad, was subject to broad interpretations on the narrow highways of 17th and 18th Century England. Bold Dick Turpin was one, but only one, of a numerous night-errantry that pranced the moonlight lanes about London, hearts high and pistols level, to cry the hapless traffic to Stand and deliver what it had in pocket. "The finest men in England, physically speaking," said Thomas De Quincey, "the very noblest specimens of man, considered as an animal, were the mounted robbers who cultivated their profession of the great roads...
...broadcast of mountain and prairie specialties. Among those who found fame: Opry Alumni Eddy Arnold, Ernest Tubb, Red Foley and Roy Acuff, all of whom now boast six-figure annual incomes. Citified publishers and record companies-realizing that in the wide-open spaces of the U.S. a good barnyard ballad can outsell a bistro blues every time-have been making tracks to the source...
...Ballad of the Sad Cafe, by Carson McCullers. A novelette, half a dozen short stories and three novels in an impressive omnibus (TIME, June...
...Ballad of the Sad Café, by Carson McCullers. A novelette, half a dozen short stories and three novels in an impressive omnibus (TIME, June...
...made-to-order ballad, The Death of Floyd Collins, did not appear until after Collins' 18-day ordeal ended. Sample line: "His body now lies sleeping in a lonely sandstone cave...