[78-L] Ruby are you Mad at Your Man

[RAY KILCOYNE]

Interesting, but I just listened to the Buck Owens version and there's not 
much there to qualify it as a story song either.  Looking at the other 
titles in the "Kentucky Mountain Ballads" album, only a few look like they 
might be story songs. For instance TURKEY IN THE STRAW doesn't tell much of 
a story.  (It also looks like it has more of a Mississippi origin than 
Kentucky anyway).
I think they must have been using yet another definition of "ballad" for 
this collection.
RayK
>
> The term "ballad" has changed much over the years. Today, people think of 
> it as meaning a song with a slow tempo. In folkloristic terms, it means 
> any song that tells a story.
>
> Cary Ginell