This list of country stars charged with truly awful crimes includes three Country Music Hall of Fame inductees and more than 40 years in prison.
Spoiler alert: they're all men. That's not to say the women of country music haven't done some bad things, but we've not found a female artist who committed the kind of crime you hear about on the news.
Gun violence, robbery, statutory rape and drug charges help shape this list. There are even a couple of murder charges!
We've ranked them from least to most appalling and started with the controversial David Allan Coe, whose criminal record is long but not especially dense. Most of the 20 years he spent in jail were for crimes that triggered a probation violation — at least, that's the way he tells it.
Jerry Lee Lewis is also featured. He once