Uproariously funny and filled with choice narration, The Big Ballad Jamboree is Donald Davidson's only novel. He set his story--the romance of hillbilly and country singer Danny MacGregor with folk singer and ballad scholar Cissy Timberlake--in the fictional western North Carolina town of Carolina City during the summer of 1949. The late forties, just after WWII and before the rise of national television, are great years for classic...