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.

Soft rock is arguably the most treasured subgenre of '70s classic rock. But with the volume of new artists and songs it spawned, there were bound to be some tracks that never received the recognition ...

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 ...