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 ...

These sad country songs are stone-cold classics. In the 1960s, heartbreak looked a little different than it does today: There were no breakups over text or email, no obsessively scrolling through your ...

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 ...