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Remembering The Old Songs: The Baltimore Fire

by Lyle Lofgren, Inside Bluegrass, July 2005 “Some scholars have written that ballads functioned as tabloid newspapers of their day, bringing news of sensational happenings to an illiterate populace. But news is ephemeral: it whets our appetite for different news … Continue reading

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