He had jumped to a major label, and racked up some radio hits with a glossier sound and homespun ballads.
There are folksy, acoustic laments, minor key ballads and a few juke-joints (Unintelligible).
The British folk rebels of the early 1970s explained their rocked-out Child ballads as a way of taking folk music out of museums and giving it back to folks.
Dekker and his backup singers, a group of brothers dubbed The Four Aces, produced a string of hits, mostly love ballads and songs with hints of religion or advice to parents.
Cooper has grown, serving as fodder for countless news articles, a movie and ballads.
While many bands resort to pulling out a couple of ballads per album to tap into its softer sound, Dear and the Headlights manages to slip in and out of this sense of serenity within the same song, which is much more dynamic and intriguing.
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In its opening moments, The Everybodyfields' "Lonely Anywhere" sounds as sweetly unassuming as ballads get: As a gently plucked acoustic guitar sets the scene, Jill Andrews slowly and tentatively offers a sweet-sounding apology.
After a critically panned venture into American blues with "Rattle and Hum, " U2 left behind the world of anthem rockers and ballads and moved into a new era of musical experimentation and self-awareness of their own success.
She sang traditional Mexican ballads and was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award in 2002 in the category of best banda album.
She studied classical music, then developed a passion for jazz, especially ballads.
"Secular items are never to be sung or played at a Catholic funeral, such as romantic ballads, pop or rock music, political songs, football club songs, " he adds.
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The performances of the 25 finalists were as diverse as ever with emotional ballads, mock opera, classic pop and a half-hearted attempt at some hybrid-rap.
The Cost understandably finds the band harboring more commercial ambitions than usual, even re-casting a pair of Swell Season songs as radio-friendly mid-tempo ballads, but no one involved has forgotten Hansard's odd ability to sound sweetly romantic, big-hearted, self-deprecating and emotionally stunted at the same time.
Of nanyin s three components, the first is purely instrumental, the second includes voice, and the third consists of ballads accompanied by the ensemble and sung in Quanzhou dialect, either by a sole singer who also plays clappers or by a group of four who perform in turn.
Macy Gray and Vanessa Carlton became household names after their respective ballads, "I Try" (No. 22 on the list), and "A Thousand Miles" (No. 24 on the list), but neither songstress has come out with a comparable hit since.
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