R&B, soul, and folk are the holy trinity of sad songs. For decades upon decades, these three genres have been releasing existentially soul-crushing ballads about heartbreak, loss, political tragedy, ...

One of our main missions is introducing you to music you might not have found otherwise. That being said, we are going you introduce you to some folk ballads of the 1970s that aren’t by Bob Dylan, ...

Before John Denver became known as a country and folk music legend, his first hit was originally given as a Christmas gift. The then-unknown songwriter released a track in 1969 inspired by love, which ...

Traditional folk ballads are one of our most enduring forms of cultural expression. They can also be lost to society, forgotten over time. That’s why, in the mid-1700s, when a Scottish woman named ...

Temple worship has kept alive the ballad tradition through villuppattu. “Villupattu ballads were mostly about temple deities. They began to be written down sometime in the 18th century, and in one ...

Until quite recently, as far as folk singing was concerned, Ireland was overwhelmed by its rich and capacious rural hinterland. “Modh’s Half”, as we used to call Munster, still cherished the lost ...

Anaïs Mitchell is wondering whether her new record, Child Ballads, should come with a disclaimer. "Because of the name a lot of people think they're kids songs," says the Vermont singer-songwriter.

Folk-ballads are living archives that represent the imagination, values, ideas, and aesthetics of the people to whom they belong. Bangla literature has a rich repertoire of folk ballads. We are, ...