We’re starting our list of somber ’00s country songs with Rascal Flatts’ “Skin (Sarabeth).” This ballad about childhood cancer is almost too much to bear. Reading the lyrics alone is enough to start ...

When a country music fan needs a good cry, these 15 unbelievably sad songs are the prescription. Breakup songs, abuse songs and songs about death that try to be poignant but still leave us crying make ...

Each one of country music's 50 saddest songs is unique, but they all have one important thing in common: They all tell a powerful, tear-jerking story. Some of those stories are on topics that don't ...

The rare show to warrant adjectives like wrenching and harrowing, David T. Little’s 60-minute operatic suite Solider Songs is engineered to wrench and harrow—and to dare theatergoers into actually ...