These four Southern rock bands usually came with the thunder. But these four ballads showed off their sensitive side.

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There’s something about a rock ballad that stirs feelings of nostalgia even when the lyrics aren’t particularly wistful. The music of the 1980s arrived with heightened earnestness as the decade became ...

When it comes to Johnny Cash’s songs, there is no shortage of lyrics involving murder and bloodshed, but one tune that the Man in Black released, but didn’t have a hand in writing, has earned the ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...