For more traditional country music fans, times are tough, but to get through it here are three alright pop country songs to give a listen.

The modern day country music fan is quite a bit more tolerant of edgy or controversial songs than fans were 30 or 40 years ago, and as a result, there are fewer banned country songs today.

But no matter whether you prefer the solid-country 2000s or the sonically experimental 2010s, one thing's for certain: In each decade, our No. 1 pick is a weeper. Scroll through the lists below to ...

saying they’d done five tracks so far — and noting that one of them was a “fun, up-tempo country song” that includes “a fiddle… a new version of Chappell.” Earlier on “SNL,” Roan ...