Ballad Hunting with Max HunterA traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recorded nearly 1600 traditional songs by more than 200 singers from the mid 1950s through the mid 1970s, all the while focused on preserving the music in its unaltered form. Sarah Jane Nelson chronicles Hunters song collecting adventures alongside portraits of the singers and mentors he met along