Country music is all about getting honest and real, and singing about death is just about as raw and real as it gets. Though the song are often very sad, they also provide catharsis for grieving ...

With 'Last Leaf on the Tree,' Nelson and his son Micah have made a masterpiece that is a sonic outlier—but features a whole lot of Trigger.

Revisiting songs in the works and taking into account the past several years of his life, The Universal Fire turned into a mournful procession of love and grief ... following the death of friend and ...