Friday, December 1, 2023

VA - Hurt, Saddest Country Songs (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2.

SADDEST COUNTRY SONGS
Previously posted April 12, 2019

VA - Hurt, Saddest Country Songs (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2.


Country music, also known as country and western (or simply country), and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as folk music (especially Appalachian folk and Western music) and blues. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms, folk lyrics, and harmonies mostly accompanied by string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobro’s), and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. (Wikipedia)

Country music has developed a clear reputation for having some of the saddest songs of any genre. If it weren't for sad songs, country music may not be the same. From losing a lover, a friend, a mother, or a beloved family pet, there’s something on this list that has grabbed us all emotionally. Through these songs we relive memories of heartache or death, with emotions we can all relate to whether sweet and bitter. From the earliest hillbilly music and through to the current generation of country warblers' country songs can still break our hearts.


My recommendation is that you avoid opening up your whisky or beers when listing to these tearjerkers.

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Track lists
CD1
01    Johnny Cash - Hurt  :03:39    1994
02    Vern Gosdin - Chiseled in Stone    :03:52    2018
03    Vince Gill     -  When I Call Your Name    :04:14    2018
04    Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now    :05:51    2018
05    Willie Nelson - Always on My Mind    :03:57    2018
06    Lee Brice - I Drive Your Truck    :04:04    2018
07    Aaron Lewis - Granddaddy's Gun    :03:46    2018
08    John Moreland - You Don't Care for Me Enough to Cry    :04:15    2018
09    Brad Paisley (Feat. Allison Krauss) - Whiskey Lullaby    :04:20    2018
10    Jason Isbell - Elephant    :03:38    2018
11    Yoakam, Dwight - I Sang Dixie    :03:51    2018
12    Brooks & Dunn - Believe    :05:40    2018
13    Reba McEntire - She Thinks His Name Was John    :04:23    2018
14    Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt - Waiting Around to Die    :02:40    2018
15    Melanie    How Can I Help You to Say Goodbye    :04:39    2018
16    John Michael Montgomery - The Little Girl    :03:53    2018
17    Kris Kristofferson - Help Me Make it Through the Night    :02:25    2018
18    Merle Haggard - If We Make it Thought December    :02:42    2018
19    Rascal Flatts - Skin (Sarabeth)    :04:21    2018
20    Merle Haggard - Sing Me Back Home    :02:49    2013
21    Mel Tillis - Life Turned Her That Way    :02:22    2013
22    Keith Urban - Tonight I Wanna Cry    :04:19    2018
23    Dolly Parton - I Will Forever Hate Roses    :03:25    2018
24    Patsy Cline - Crazy    :02:45    2011
25    Ray Charles - Seven Spanish Angels    :03:54    2018

CD2
26    Red Foley - Old Chep    :03:15    2018
27    Lefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil    :03:06    2011
28    Hank Williams - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry    :02:48    2018
29    Shelby Lynne - Heaven's Only Days Down the Road    :03:44    2018
30    Dave Pomeroy; Edgar Meyer; John Mock; Kathy Mattea; Matt Rollings; Tim O'brien - Where've You Been    :03:44    2018
31    John Moreland - 3-59 Am    :03:00    2018
32    Shenandoah - Ghost in This House    :03:38    2018
33    Martina McBride - Concrete Angel    :04:13    2018
34    Suzy Bogguss - Letting Go    :04:33    2018
35    Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain    :02:21    2018
36    Diamond Rio - You're Gone    :03:59    2018
37    Vince Gill - Go Rest High on That Mountain    :05:14    2018
38    Dixie Chicks - Travelin' Soldier    :05:44    2002
39    Charlie Rich - The Most Beautiful Girl    :02:42    2018
40    Dan Seals - Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)    :04:53    2018
41    Johnny Cash - He Stopped Loving Her Today    :02:37    2018
42    Ray Price - For The Good Times    :03:51    2013
43    Gram Parsons - Love Hurts    :03:42    2018
44    Mark Wills - Don't Laugh at Me    :03:37    2018
45    Faron Young - Hello Walls    :02:24    2011
46    George Jones - The Grand Tour    :03:07    2018
47    Steve Wariner - Holes in the Floor of Heaven    :05:10    2018
48    Patsy Cline - I Fall To Pieces    :02:51    2011
49    Alan Jackson - Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)    :05:07    2012
50    Cole Swindell - You Should Be Here    :03:12    2018
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7 comments:

  1. Could have added "Yardsale Prices" and "Haunted Heart" by Sammy Kershaw. "Diggin' Up Bones" and "No Place Like Home" by Randy Travis, "Every Light in the House is On" by Trace Adkins, Craig Morgan "The Father, My Son and the Holy Ghost", Keith Whitley "Don't Your Eyes", Kenny Rogers "Lucille", Garth Brooks "The Dance", and Eddie Raven "I Got Mexico". Great collection you posted. Not many more better sad songs from a genre that has more cheating, drinking, and heartbreak songs than any other. Thanks for giving us these memories from radio over the years.

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    1. Sounds like you have part 3 sorted, Mrdude44.
      Cheers.

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  2. Looks you are sad Butterboy but you make us happy with the music, thanks again!

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    1. Not sad, Little Bill.
      I just think it good to have a cry every now and then.
      Cheers.

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  3. Another great collection. Thank you so much BB.

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