This track was made popular by honky-tonk country singer Faron Young. However, few know that Booger Red himself actually wrote it. It charted for weeks back in 1961 and is often considered the first ...

If you need a good cry, the following three devastating classic rock songs might just get you there. And even if you’re not the emotional type, these songs might make you feel things you weren’t ...

NY-via-Texas singer-songwriter Blair Howerton intended her first full-length album as Why Bonnie, 2022’s 90 in November, to be a country album; for its follow-up, she didn’t have a specific genre in ...

Many of you have had the experience of driving with the radio or walking into an establishment with music playing, and suddenly, a song comes on that immediately transports you back into a different ...

There’s something strangely comforting about a song that breaks your heart. You press play knowing it’ll hurt a little, but you do it anyway. Whether it’s a haunting melody or lyrics that hit too ...

What metalcore songs have made you cry in the live setting? Crying is something you typically associate more with emo, but metalcore can be emotional too and metalcore fans are opening up on the songs ...

After winter must come spring. Last month, All Songs Considered asked for stories about the songs that make you cry — and received about 8,000 responses, some of them deeply personal. It seemed only ...