1.   A man and his wife positioned themselves in the middle of one of the tree-lined avenues and sang ballads to a harmonica.

2.   Here was a community in which people argued fiercely about theology, even sang ballads about predestination.

3.   Listen to her sing Gershwin ballads.

4.   One day Fields, who hailed from Louisiana and sang ballads, came to Boston.

5.   She reheats a funky Little Feat-like groove, and she sings pristine ballads of the heart.

6.   Some people say he screamed all the time, but he could also sing a ballad that could kill you.

7.   Texas birdboys would sit around the campfire at night singing birdboy ballads to calm the flock.

8.   The mournful ballads are sung by characters, often at the highest point of emotional pitch.

9.   Vonnegut narrates sections of the recording, and Jimmy Justice, one of the vocalists in the current incarnation of the Soldier String Quartet, sings the ballads.

10.   While they walk, the young men sing improvised ballads impugning their rivals, or old favorites bragging of their people, their cows, their culture, themselves.