1.   During adolescence, I attended programs regularly at the tiny Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles, and there he was on its tiny stage serving old folk ballads.

2.   He spread his arms toward a gathering audience and sang an old English ballad.

3.   She began haunting antiquarian book shops throughout the British Isles and the United States, seeking old ballad collections.

4.   Some of the music has a muted, modal quality, like old English folk ballads.

5.   Yet those old pop ballads still call to him.