“Power ballad.” The phrase sounds like an oxymoron. Rather, it’s shorthand for the type of song that has, over time, deftly avoided definition. To wit, an anthology titled “The Very Best of Power ...
When we think of children's street songs we think of light-hearted rhymes that go along with their games but here in Ireland there was one exception - "Weile Weile Waile"! We take a deeper look at ...
As the world commemorates the victims of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, you might want to watch Yiddish singer Lucette van den Berg perform “The Ballad of ...
If there was one thing that Jac Schaeffer always knew was going to be part of the witches’ brew that became “Agatha All Along,” it was music. The showrunner had a lot of different ideas on what form ...
Ballads have returned. The slow, emotional sensibilities of ballads, which had been overshadowed by the dominance of K-pop dance tracks, are showing signs of revival. As of the 21st, ballad-style ...
Sixty years ago this month, Bob Dylan released “Ballad in Plain D,” the only song he says he regrets recording. “I must have been a real schmuck to write that,” he said in a 1985 interview with Bill ...
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