For generations, the force of power ballads has been on full display. These songs have launched careers and inspired fans across the globe to raise their lighters (and later, cell phones ...

These hardships are reflected in the countless folk songs that delve into dark subject matter. For instance Appalachian folk music–and later, bluegrass–is full of murder ballads. These are ...

Then - and this is what really sets the Ballads apart - MacColl wrote songs inspired by the stories, with music directed by Peggy Seeger and performed by orchestral and folk musicians. A new ...

In the late 50s and all through the 60s, teenage death ballads narratively describing tragedies were immensely popular.

Ballad of the Baltimore Bridge,” released on the one-year anniversary of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, is a memorial with a message.