@therealsparrowsmith: This tragic ballad, “Young Sally”, poured out of me at 4:00 am the night after Roe V Wade was overturned. The Road to Nowhere was the perfect place to sing it. Caught this last verse during the afternoon shower that broke the intense heat of this July day. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anything more green. I’ve been going to the ballad swaps second Wednesdays at Zadies in Marshall whenever I’m able to since they started. I feel incredibly lucky to get to listen to generational culture bearers like Sheila Kay Adams and Donna Ray Norton sing the ballads that have been passed down for hundreds of years. Someone wrote those songs once, and I guess this is just how my brain works, to take a story and turn it into a song….

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Sunday 19 July 2026 19:46:11 GMT