In keeping with this mountain-woman persona, Love's voice is capable of dancing, of hollering, of crooning, of getting down into the earth and pulling up the primal. Plus, she yodels. It's kind of a natural slide from the mountain drawl and the rebel yell to the full-throated yodel. It's not so different from scatting in jazz or the wordless improvised singing typical in rock. Her yodeling adds to the hillbilly sound of her music as well as conveying a great exuberance.
Love has a big range of material.
She writes most of her own songs, but generally finds room on each album for one or two covers and one or two traditional numbers. Love's version starts out a cappella and religious, but halfway through the guitars, accordion and drums kick in, transforming it into a rollicking Zydeco tune. The author of it is quite well known. His name was John Newton and in the eighteenth century he captained British slave ships. He repented of his evil and became a Christian minister, spending the rest of his life pressing for abolition.