We are finally getting to one of the ballad types and topics that made me realize how much potential lay in these old songs…. Monstrous births. Or, to be clear, that's how they were marketed at the time. They were actually an overall mix of true accounts of birth defects and used the idea of deformity as a direct metaphor. Either which way it went, one thing remained the same. The mother was almost always to blame in some way or another. Prides's Fall The two inseparable brothers. Infant Mor...
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We are finally getting to one of the ballad types and topics that made me realize how much potential lay in these old songs…. Monstrous births. Or, to be clear, that's how they were marketed at the time. They were actually an overall mix of true accounts of birth defects and used the idea of deformity as a direct metaphor. Either which way it went, one thing remained the same. The mother was almost always to blame in some way or another. Prides's Fall The two inseparable brothers. Infant Mor...
Episode 7: Barbara Allen and The Suffolk Miracle..
Bawdy Ballads
25 minutes
3 years ago
Episode 7: Barbara Allen and The Suffolk Miracle..
Today we look at death and love, and there's even a revenant. While we do that we look at the dangers of the "one true love" myth and the importance of rejection in our lives. BawdyBallads transcript The Suffolk Miracle Revenants Barbara Allen Playlist Barbara Allen EBBA "Let it Die" Feist --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bawdyballads/messageSupport the show
Bawdy Ballads
We are finally getting to one of the ballad types and topics that made me realize how much potential lay in these old songs…. Monstrous births. Or, to be clear, that's how they were marketed at the time. They were actually an overall mix of true accounts of birth defects and used the idea of deformity as a direct metaphor. Either which way it went, one thing remained the same. The mother was almost always to blame in some way or another. Prides's Fall The two inseparable brothers. Infant Mor...
