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They know the heartbreak they sing about.

Country music is a genre that is rooted in old-fashioned, traditional values, and one of those values is marriage.

If you listen to Ella Langley's music, you'll know just how important family is to her.

It's absolutely beautiful, but still cozy and understated.

It's more tragic when it's unexpected, as is the case with these country singers who died before their time.

Dolly Parton famously grew up in poverty in rural Tennessee as one of 12 brothers and sisters.

If you think Dolly Parton's legacy is her music, you're right! If you believe it's her philanthropy, we've got no argument.

Dolly Parton was laid to rest at Nashville's Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum, alongside her late husband, Carl Dean.

She's as radiant as ever.

Country music and drinking have always had an uncomfortably close relationship.