Trace Adkins

Some of the hardest working singers in country music are Capricorns.

Christmas isn't always so merry for everyone.

The 2000s delivered some of country music's stone-cold saddest songs ever.

The 1990s just might be the definitive era of sad country music.

Believe it or not, several of these artists were better off afterward.

These country stars are very, very vocal about their political beliefs.

For some, living with chronic illness is simply a fact of life.

Alcohol, drugs and infidelity played a role in country music's most volatile marriages, but one of them really takes the cake.

Including the singer who never got justice.

They know the heartbreak they sing about.