Country music has many ingredients — among them, the blues, Gospel music of the South ... providing us with thousands of ...

Sometimes all it takes is one well-placed line or a sudden plot twist to turn just about any country song into a sad tear-jerker.

Flip through the slideshow below for 20 of country's saddest songs, from classics like "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" to newer songs like Jason Isbell's "Dress Blues." ...

These nostalgic country songs aren't all debuts or No. 1 hits, but they did help put some of the the genre's biggest names on the map.

When elements of R&B became integrated with white country music it became rock 'n' roll. If you were to meet a typical character from a blues song he would most likely be down on his luck ...