These sad country songs are almost guaranteed to bring on the waterworks, no matter how many times I hear them.

Few musical genres capture the art of telling a sad story beautifully quite like classic country and Western songs. This storytelling music comes from places where life is hard: working-class Southern ...

From incredible story songs to heartbreaking personal narratives, these 21 tracks share the saddest subject matter country music has to offer — from a female perspective. Since the genre's early days, ...

The official start of the summer season is just around the corner, and nothing goes together quite as well as country music and summer songs. Country has plenty of fun, upbeat summer songs that ...

Garth Brooks has recorded his fair share of heartbreaking country songs, but there’s one track that rises above the rest, a song so emotional it still leaves listeners reaching for their tissues. In ...

And the conversation prompted us to ask Jake Worthington if he’s ever wrote a sad song and then backed off of it, or tried to rewrite it to make the track a little less melancholy. The country artist ...