We highlighted the happiest songs in country music, so it’s only natural we now look at the flip side of that coin.<\/p>\n
Here are the ten saddest songs in country music:<\/p>\n
1. “Go Rest High on That Mountain” by Vince Gill<\/p>\n
2. “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” by Willie Nelson<\/p>\n
3. “I’m So Lonely I Could Cry” by Hank Williams<\/p>\n
4. “The Grand Tour” by George Jones<\/p>\n
5. “Summer’s End” by John Prine<\/p>\n
6. “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” by Tammy Wynette<\/p>\n
7. “Elephant” by Jason Isbell<\/p>\n
8. “Crazy” by Patsy Cline<\/p>\n
9. “Concrete Angel” by Martina McBride<\/p>\n
10. “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” by Glen Campbell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We highlighted the happiest songs in country music, so it’s only natural we now look at the flip side of that coin.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":31235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6246,1917,1013,2013,6245,1735,202,2040,93,661],"class_list":["post-31713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-blue-eyes-crying-in-the-rain","tag-george-jones","tag-glen-campbell","tag-hank-williams","tag-jason-isbell","tag-john-prine","tag-martina-mcbride","tag-tammy-wynette","tag-vince-gill","tag-willie-nelson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 14:50:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/04\/the-saddest-songs-in-county-music\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31714,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31713\/revisions\/31714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}