Music is so important to the atmosphere of a film, but when a ton of projects use the same trick over and over, it can start to send the wrong message. The modern trend of slow sad covers of popular ...

It’s difficult to imagine the modern Americana ballad without the examples provided time and again by the legendary Townes Van Zandt. The Texan combined his knack for poetic eloquence with lived-in ...

Country singer-songwriter Josh Turner finds beauty in sad, lonesome and slow songs such as Johnny Cash’s “The Caretaker” and Hank Williams’ “Alone and Forsaken.” These somber tunes appear on his 2020 ...

Sad songs can actually cause the release of a hormone in the body called prolactin. It's released when we feel true grief or ...