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The 25 Best Country Songs About Death

The 25 Best Country Songs About Death

There is no genre with as rich a history of songs about many forms of death–by natural causes, murder, suicide, war, accidents, and so on–than country.

Kathy Mattea Flies Like a ‘Pretty Bird’

Kathy Mattea Flies Like a ‘Pretty Bird’

"Tell Me What You Ache For" Kathy Mattea sings, but the songs on Pretty Bird suggest the pain is still too strong for her to do so.

Kathy Mattea: Calling Me Home

Ten Notable Holiday Songs of the Past 30 Years

Working in the Coal Mine and Singing About It, Too

In Praise of Older Women: The Best Records of 2008 by Women 45 Years Old and Over

Kathy Mattea: Coal

Kathy Mattea: Right Out of Nowhere