Because this road has been walked before.

Years ago, cities were crossed one by one — publicly, physically, imperfectly. Miles were driven. Squares were addressed. Doors were knocked. Some opened. Many did not.

The maps remain. Some complete. Some fragmentary. Some still waiting.

https://66cities.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">In 2011, sixty-six cities were travelled across Britain and Ireland. It was imperfect, improvised, and often exhausting. The maps were hand-drawn. The doors were not always open.  The road was walked anyway.
Ballad Cities grows from that first obedience.
This is not the beginning. It is the return.

sO, Ballad Cities is not a new idea.

It is unfinished business.

The first journey moved fast and wide.

This one moves slow and deep.

• Six nations. 
• Six narrative volumes.
• Six shadow companions.

Twelve books that do not invent geography — they return to it. 

This is not world-building. It is resurrection.

There is nothing else like it.

Ballad Cities is a twelve-year road across six nations — Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, and the United States.

It is not a travel guide.

It is not a franchise.

It is a long obedience across land and memory,  and a movement toward horizons once sketched.

Each nation is given time. Each place is listened to. Each story is allowed to breathe.

This is not speed. It is obedience.

Each nation carries two volumes:

The sung narrative — the public road.

The companion journal — documents, fragments, unseen material.  The reverse-colour seal.The echo.

Twelve books. - Not mirrors. - Companions.

  A  real preacher, writer, and broadcaster

• The   only man to preach from all 66 books of the Bible, in 66 cities, in 66      days, covering 6,600 miles
• A   man who has lived and worked across the UK and North America, especially      the American South
• A  Christian contrarian — resisting shallow religion and cultural conformity      while clinging fiercely to Christ.

The man behind Ballad Cities has stood in rain-soaked squares, spoken on cathedral steps, slept uncertain of the next night’s bed, and driven long roads wondering what would happen next.

Ballad Cities is not authored from safety.

It is written by one who walks. Not to dominate. Not to conquer. But to return.

The calling has not changed. The garments have.

 At the sonic heart of  At the sonic heart of the Ballad City journey is a real broadcast.  is the radio station WLMP — We Love Mountain Praise, broadcasting at:

WLMP.AM (USA) -  Kingdom.Rocks (UK)

• A real 24/7 radio station  stream carrying outlaw gospel, worship, testimony, folk ballads, spoken word, teaching, interviews, and music shaped by the road itself. 

Inside the books, the station is a lifeline, a warning bell, a comfort, a soundtrack.  Outside the books, it is a working ministry and a broadcast hub.

The road speaks.

And it keeps speaking.

• Interviews from the street 
• Sermons shaped by miles 
• Devotions born in early mornings 
• Travel observations and field recordings 
• Music from across the six nations
   

The station serves as the living soundtrack of the wider Ballad world — but it also stands on its own feet.

Among the recurring voices:

• Burning Lamp Book Club — exploring what the characters read and what the road recommends 
• Between the Wires (Tad Rex) — where cultural analysis, prophecy, and Appalachian edge meet 
• Prepper Pete’s Pantry 
• Letters from Pop-Pop 
• Weather from Charlie Skies 
• Night Whispers 
• Christian Countdown 
• Folk music features from Scotland and the Isles 
• Appalachian heritage voices 
• Bible readings, midweek studies, and Sunday sermons 
• Programming for children, including Jingle & Ben and The Music Town Gang
   

And more. Not as novelty.  As continuity.

The last journey relied on borrowed microphones.

This one carries its own signal.

What happens on the pavement does not vanish.

It is carried from street to studio, and from studio to home.

Across six nations. And beyond.

Inside the story:
Choirs, quartets, misfits, worship leaders, Appalachian saints, and Celtic ghosts sing their songs.

Outside the story:
Mr Farrell’s Sound Parlour  is a real studio producing:

• Every      fictional artist’s soundtrack
• Radio      imaging
• Audio      drama
• Advertisements
• Song      cycles for the Ballads
• AI-assisted      multi-take recording sessions

If a song appears in the novels, chances are you can hear it in real life on WLMP.

 The Ballads on the Page — The Music in the Air 

Fiddlers, drifters, psalm-keepers, Highlands wanderers, back-row poets and front-row firebrands carry their tunes through glens and hollers. Their voices rise from kirk pews, campfires, barrooms, battlefields, sanctuaries, foxholes, and forgotten roads.

Mr Farrell’s Sound Parlour brings it all to life with:
• Soundtracks for every fictional singer and band
• Voice imaging for WLMP & Kingdom.Rocks
• Narrative scoring for the Ballads
• Character-driven monologues and radio skits
• Commercial spots and station IDs
• Full AI-assisted sessions with Infinite Takes™

If it’s sung, hummed, shouted, whispered, or prayed in the books,
you can likely hear it — alive and breathing — on WLMP and Kingdom.Rocks.

Along the road, there is a real front door.O

VictorRobert.LTD serves as the living counterpart to Burning Lamp — where readers can obtain the works that emerge from the road itself.

Not merchandise.

Not novelty.

But volumes that carry the same voice.

And other works born from the City Ballads & The Ballad Dodecet.

The line between story and street is not erased.

It is walked across.

Within the narrative, the characters gather to discuss what they are reading.

In the real world, that gathering continues.

Each week, the Burning Lamp Book Club meets through the WLMP and Kingdom.Rocks broadcast — exploring books the road recommends and inviting listeners to read along.

The conversations do not remain fictional.

A, there is a real front door.y continue.

Additional works rise from within the wider Ballad world:

Reflections, field notes, interviews, devotional writings, cultural commentary, and music features — each shaped by the same landscape and the same calling.

These are not spin-offs.

They are tributaries.

And they flow from the same source.