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Old 05-20-2022, 09:45 AM
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I don't know the backstory but love the song. What is the backstory?

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Dink's Song always gets my wife going - but it might be the back story rather than the song itself.

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Old 05-20-2022, 09:47 AM
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Sometimes I have to tell myself (mentally), "The job here is to make them feel like crying, not to cry myself. Get a grip!"

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Same here. Especially with poems.

In one of my seminars I led the class through an analysis of the auditory rhetoric of David Benoit's piece, "9-11", on his Orchestral Stories album. One of the students began to weep during our second listening of the composition, and soon the entire class, instructor included, was in tears.
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Haven't read the thread yet, but...

At my last Barn Jam someone called In Color by Jamey Johnson. I was crying by the end.

When I was a kid, way back when I was in 2nd grade, someone brought in a 45 of Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks. I sat there in class and cried my eyes out.
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I nominate Glennwillow’s The Leader of the Band, now appearing over in the Show and Tell forum.
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There a recording of Guy Clark doing LA Freeway towards the end of his life…. I think it was a birthday tribute concert. I think it’s more the fact that he sounds so tired and clearly not in good health than the song itself, but that particular recording can get to me a bit sometimes.
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I just heard one... Neil Young "Helpless" sang by Molly Tuttle it made me head in that direction..
Wasn't the same when I sang it...
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Old 05-20-2022, 02:13 PM
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What. I've read this whole thread and no one has mentioned, not once, Puff the Magic Dragon. That song makes me cry every time. Poor Puff! Poor anyone who loves and is left behind forever.
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Old 05-20-2022, 02:44 PM
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Hayes Carll. Help me Remember. I cry easy, this one made me bawl.
https://youtu.be/aNYoY6k_sAI
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There a recording of Guy Clark doing LA Freeway towards the end of his life…. I think it was a birthday tribute concert. I think it’s more the fact that he sounds so tired and clearly not in good health than the song itself, but that particular recording can get to me a bit sometimes.
One of my all time favorite tunes. I am very fond of the version he did in "Heartworn Highways".
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Old 05-20-2022, 05:15 PM
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"Summer's Almost Gone" by the Doors. Pianist George Winston does it on his album of Doors music. It holds up very well even without the lyrics.
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+1 for 4+20

And one of the saddest loneliest song I know is Colin Hay’s ‘’I just don’t think I’ll get over you’.

https://youtu.be/3Pvi4uKuawk

It’s a great sad tune with impressive open tuning guitar playing to boot.

Sting’s ‘I’m so happy, I can’t stop crying’ is another heartbreaker, but I much prefer his acoustic version. The steel guitar on the original makes it sound hokey, to me.

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I just heard one... Neil Young "Helpless" sang by Molly Tuttle it made me head in that direction..
Wasn't the same when I sang it...
Thanks for this one. As much as I love Molly playing bluegrass, she's just as good when she decides to play folk. That solo was perfection. Beautiful performance.
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Old 05-20-2022, 09:07 PM
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For me:

Elephant by Jason Isbell


Every time.
Truth! The saddest song I have ever heard.
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John Hiatt so frequently knocks me out.

He recently did an album with Jerry Douglas. This song took him about forty years to write. It's about the loss of his brother when they both were very young.

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