This list of the 45 best power ballads is drawn mainly from that era, but we’ve also included a few earlier songs that laid the groundwork. If you put these all on a playlist, you’ve got the ...

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 ...

Occasionally a change in style is called for. That’s where a few ballads fit in nicely. They don't have to be sad or full of doom and gloom. Neither do they all have to be lush love songs.