Single Song Sunday: Barbara Allen (Meg Baird, Colin Meloy, Laura Cortese & 8 more!)
Traditional death ballads aren't a dime a dozen on the modern papcharts, but they're a recognizable form among the folkways. Most deal frankly with unrequited and/or unequal love and its aftereffects, with gruesome detail and haunted characters; most go so far as to show the callousness of humankind through ghosts and body parts transformed, though history suggests that such lascivious imagery was more commonplace in the Puritan and previous worlds, where the funerial was a family affair, life lessons were taught and learned through song, pining could kill, and death in its stark bodily form was an everpresent [...]
- Colin Meloy - Barbara Allen
- Jean Ritchie - Barbary Allen
- Laura Cortese & Jefferson Hamer - Barbara Ellen
- Lucy Wainwright Roche - B. Allen
- Martin Simpson - Barbry Allen
- Meg Baird - The Cruelty of Barbry Allen
- Shirley Collins - Barbara Allen
- Sunita Staneslow - Barbara Allen
- The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover - Barbara Allen
- The Waterboys - Barbara Allen




















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