I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the time I was interested in the ...

Murder ballads are a major part of the tradition of bluegrass. These four songs of love, jealousy, and death are among the best.

On February 24, the music world lost a giant who helped create a “quiet storm” on 1970s radio. Roberta Flack hypnotized audiences with epically slow ballads and helped define a new approach to R&B and ...

He was popular in the 2000s and has been credited ... with ballad singer KCM this weekend in the city of Daegu. His R&B ballads won praise from veteran Korean singers like Shin Seung-hun and ...