Not every rocking tune requires electric guitars or a loud band, as these classic acoustic songs from the 1970s prove.

The long awaited follow-up album to David Arn's "Traveler Tales" is finally here. A mix of soft acoustic songs written and recorded during the pandemic, this is music about separation and isolation ...

Led Zeppelin started as a psychedelic blues band in the last 1960s. It didn’t take long for them to prove they had a soft side with their more delicate work in the folk and country genres. They never ...

The thing about soft rock is that it was never an exclusive genre. Cross-pollinating among pop, rock, country rock and, especially, adult contemporary music of the day, the best soft rock records ...

Building on the folk-singer-songwriter phase of the ’60s, the 1970s rock scene began to take on a softer edge. This would, rather uninventively, become known as “soft rock.” The ’70s would be rife ...

Perhaps the best way to know that a song is well written is to strip it down to its most natural and intimate form. If a song can elicit an emotional response from a listener with simply the artist’s ...

Led Zeppelin rose as perhaps the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their mix of blues, psychedelic rock, and folk gave the world one of its first great heavy bands ...

If Fearless Records’ Punk Goes Acoustic series is indicative of anything, it’s that alternative artists can’t resist the opportunity to pick up an acoustic guitar. While a number of our favorites have ...

The acoustic punk song is a time-honored tradition that has seen a rise — due to necessity — during this year of isolation. This edition of In Defense of the Genre looks at 30 songs from throughout ...