Writing character-driven, narrative songs would be difficult enough; structuring a musical was quite beyond him.

A few days after the attack, the narrative song "El Muerto 53" appeared anonymously in order to "reach the voice of the people".

Swift is known for her narrative songs about her experiences as a teenager and young adult.

Corrido music is a popular narrative song of poetry form, a ballad.

She is also studying the power of story-telling and narrative song in social movements.

Mr. Carthy will open the concert with "narrative songs," he said.

The corrido is a type of narrative song that tells a story.

As the volume of pop has increased, hard rhythm has chopped up the traditional narrative song and turned it into a tribal shout.

Rogan describes it as one of "Young's great narrative songs" and "almost cinematic in execution."

But there's ample personality, and at least he's back to writing narrative songs in a folk-rock idiom.