The Ballad Of

This is a show I've had in mind for a long time - every ellipsis in the set list that follows is in place of the show's titular phrase. Thanks for indulging me in this evening's genre-bending!

Sgt. Barry Sadler - The Ballad of the Green Berets
Bill Hayes - ... Davey Crockett
Marty Robins - ... the Alamo
Johnny Cash - ... Ira Hayes
Gill Landry - Lawless Soirez - ... Lawless Soirez
Steve Goodman - ... Penny Evans - Somebody Else's Troubles
Doc & Merle Watson - John Henry - Home Sweet Home
Jeffrey Foucault - ... Copper Junction - Miles from the Lightning
Big Star - ... El Goodo

Sam Bush - ... Stringbean and Estelle - Circles Around Me
Cadillac Sky - ... Restored Confidence - Letters in the Deep
Tom T. Hall - ... Forty Dollars
Guy Clark - ... Laverne and Captain Flint
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt - The Wild Hunt
The Avett Brothers - ... Love and Hate - Emotionalism

Nat King Cole & Stubby Kaye - ... Cat Ballou
Flatt & Scruggs - ... Jed Clampett
Ray Stevens - ... The Blue Cyclone (pts 1 & 2)
Johnny Cash - ... a Teenage Queen
Lucinda Williams - ... Lucy Jordan - Twistable, Turnable Man
Whiskeytown - ... Carol Lynn - Pneumonia
Bob Dylan - ... a Thin Man - Hwy 61 Revisited

Steve Goodman - You Better Get It While You Can (The Ballad of Carl Martin) - Santa Ana Winds
Lynyrd Skynyrd - ... Curtis Loew - Second Helping
Elton John - ... a Well-Known Gun - Tumbleweed Connection
Eef Barzelay - ... Bitter Honey - Bitter Honey
Lefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil
Drakkar Sauna - When I Stop Dreaming - Wars and Tornadoes