NASHVILLE The American South didn't invent the murder ballad, but it certainly keeps the genre alive, both literally and musically.The oldest of these songs came from the folk traditions of the British Isles before crossing the Atlantic and being enshrined in the folkways of Appalachia.There they lived on in front-porch picking parties and mournful firesides until the phonograph slingshotted them to a national audience.
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