Many country ballads from 1961 feature the polished "Nashville sound," but the rocky reality of heartbreaking love stories remains.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In many ways, country music tells the story of America. There is the celebration of rural life and the yearning to recapture a ...

Few genres feature as many sad tearjerkers as classic country music. In fact, country music cornered the market on devastating storytelling in music for the better part of a century. There are far too ...