The romantic ballad spent eight weeks atop the charts and remains one of the defining soft rock hits of the 1970s.

In 1981, April Wine took the world by storm with their song "Just Between You and Me." Written by late frontman and guitarist ...

The Oscar-winning love theme became one of the defining ballads of the 1970s and continues to resonate today.

Take it from me, these 90s love ballads are no joke. We’ll just leave the singing of these to the professionals. “You’re Still The One” has been covered by countless artists. However, it’s one of ...

EXCLUSIVE: Nearly two decades after producing The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a video game documentary that’s emerged as a cult classic since its unveiling at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival ...

The book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono includes an interview from 1980. During the interview, he was asked about “If I Fell.” “That’s my first attempt at a ...

The standards album has become, well, a standard itself. It’s a well-known, time-honored thing, and each artist’s challenge is to put his or her individual stamp on the standard. Irvin Mayfield and ...

Traditional ballads express emotions through down-tempo melodies and somber tones. While that can certainly be the vibe for some of our moodiest days, they don’t hit quite as hard as their anthemic ...

For its first full-length release since Hurricane Katrina, Basin Street Records paired leaders from two generations of New Orleans jazz. Irvin Mayfield is a cornerstone of the Basin Street roster as a ...

If you look at the Top 10 songs on the Billboard charts, odds are you’ll find nary a love song. Tracks about heartbreak, friendship and self-empowerment abound, but straightforward ballads about ...

Dear Illinois, I can’t fight this feeling anymore. It’s time to bring this ship into the shore, and throw away the oars. We sailed on together. We drifted apart. But I know, if the world turned upside ...