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Country Songs Inspired By World Tragedies
Country singers are known for being storytellers -- trying to spin meaning out of heartbreak and hard times.
![Country Artists Wearing the American Flag [PICTURES]](http://townsquare.media/site/623/files/2016/05/lee-greenwood-reba-mcentire-keith-urban-american-flag.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Country Artists Wearing the American Flag [PICTURES]
Country music is as American as football / apple pie / insert-any-other-cliche-phrase-here, so it makes sense that, from time to time, the genre's artists would don some patriotic clothing.