Twelve Ballads

Wonderful

     

Beautiful, humorous and haunting, Daniel Dutton has taken some of the most ancient of music and made it his own. With a contemporary yet sparse sound, these tunes would be right at home on college, eclectic, folk and progressive country radio. These ballads tell stories of murder, lust, pride, the supernatural, and natural order. Some of the tracks, like "The Frog's Courtship" and "The Farmer's Curst Wife," have a fun, foot taping feel with an obvious Appalachian sound. Others, like "Pretty Polly" have a slightly unnerving, yet riveting sound that compliments a tragic story. The ballad of "John Henry" uses an African thumb piano which lends a world music feel to an old American tale.