Soft rock is a genre of different sonic textures, pairing heartfelt songwriting with some of the best rock solos ever — and of the '70s, in particular.

From Toto and Journey to Peter Frampton and Al Stewart, these unforgettable soft rock solos prove mellow songs can deliver electrifying musicianship.

We love a heavy rock song as much as anyone else, but no one can deny the enticing pull of a soft rock hit every now and then. In the ’70s, rockers began to experiment with pop sensibilities. The end ...

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 ...

Though the '90s as a decade are typified by two brutally loud, hard-edged musical movements (grunge for the first five years and nu metal for the second), we should never forget there was a whole ...

Love songs are hard. As Michael Bolton put it in an interview with Classic Pop, "The challenge is really to say something about love in a way that hasn't been said before." That's a tall order, ...

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