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The Stantons and the Nortons were people in the truest, oldest sense: extended networks of kin stretching over the mountains, everyone within backpacking distance. They'd result from the British isles Isles and settled in the Appalachians of North Carolina through the 1700s, delivering with them their dearly liked tunes and their clannish ways, their ties to the land eventually becoming as strong as their ties to one another. So when Larkin Stanton is remaining parentless at delivery in the 1840s, he is used by his cousin Arty Norton and, true to the family way, starts off singing before he starts off conversing. As Larkin matures, he hungrily discovers every song they can, as well as the subtleties of ballad singing: how the tunes are about the joys and the horrors of life, and how the best performers can produce a tune that will summon tears. Heading head-to-head with Arty's sibling, Hackley, the cousins' competitions to produce the best possible tune soon spill over in to the wooing of the best possible girl locally, Mary. When Hackley wins Mary and then leaves to deal with in the Civil War, Larkin, still too young to enlist, sees himself uncontrollably attracted to the woman who's placed his heart for a long time. What he does indeed about this love defies all he has learned all about family and commitment - and reminds us these mournful ballads didn't come just from the creativeness, but from imperfections of the heart and soul.
