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product_id: 39348316
title: "Dark Holler: Old Love Songs and Ballads"
brand: "smithsonian folkways recordings"
price: "4604 kr"
currency: ISK
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reviews_count: 4
category: "Music"
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# Dark Holler: Old Love Songs and Ballads

**Brand:** smithsonian folkways recordings
**Price:** 4604 kr
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

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- **What is this?** Dark Holler: Old Love Songs and Ballads by smithsonian folkways recordings
- **How much does it cost?** 4604 kr with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
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## Description

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Anyone who thinks ballad singers are detached hasn&apos;t likely heard these &apos;60s Folkways sides. These Appalachian ballads of love and loss shoot straight to the soul: Young Emily Dellie Norton; Juba Cass Wallin; Neighbor Girl Lee Wallin; Johnny Doyle Berzil Wallin, and more-26 cuts including 14 first-time reissues of songs by Dillard Chandler, whose life comes to the screen via the bonus DVD of the film the End of an Old Song !












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&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;&#xE2;&#x80;&#xA6;the singers all stretch out, irregularly, on vowels of their choosing, and add upturned yips to the end of stanzas.&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; -- New York Times, December 2, 2005

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## Customer Reviews

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    Dark Holler Indeed! (But I Do So Love It)
  

*by T***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2015*

I love, love, love this! It has a lot of the old ballads on it. And by that I do mean old, as most of these originated in England and along the Scottish border. And from there traveled with (mainly) the Scots-Irish across the sea, to America, where they became known as "mountain ballads". "Mathie Groves" was my first introduction to this type of music, as a child, so I was glad to see that one listed here, along with several others that I've learned down through the years. The title says "Old Love Songs and Ballads" and while that is very true, most of these are very dark, murder ballads, and are not for the faint of heart at least in terms of the a fore mentioned "Mathie Groves". And if you are interested in the old songs of this sort, or you are starting a collection of this type of music, I recommend starting here, I didn't, but now that I have it and have listened to it, I wish I had.

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    Deep and stark
  

*by D***H on Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2012*

Evocative of wooden porches attached to hand hewn cabins along mountain paths, these haunting recitations and solo sung tales are at once similar and unique in their telling. Plaintive and mournful, each song stands as having been learned and passed down from generation to generation. At the foot of ancestors. They speak as if woven and spun from the fabric of mountain life and lost love, tragedy and hopes or regrets.I found it a wonderful collection, full of feeling and history.

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    Music
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2014*

Really fast service.  Had alot of fun listening to this album, I like different music styles great that I could find.

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*Last updated: 2026-02-04*