If you're looking to let go a tear or feel something that hasn't been felt in a while, then listen to one of these three folk ballads.

"Barbara Allen" / Dave Marsh -- "The water is wide" / Ann Powers -- "Pretty Polly" / Rennie Sparks -- Music, when soft voices die / Sharyn McCrumb -- Naomie Wise, 1807 / Anna Domino -- John Brown's ...