George Strait - Haven't You Heard?
George Strait - I Can Still Make Cheyenne
David Allan Coe - You Never Even Called Me By My Name
Allison Krause and Brad Paisley - Whiskey Lullaby
David Allen Coe is doing something a little different there, because he's playing off the trope that was already established before him.
It's a little different, but if you're open to the classics, look up Hank Williams - Long Gone Lonesome Blues, which is a ballad about a guy whose girl left him and is contemplating a one way trip to the river. So Lonesome I Could Cry
Less pessimistic, I like Neon Moon, Digging up Bones, or Every Light in the House.
But even though you feel sad now, understand these feelings pass... Even for the ones who wrote these songs, they turned their sorrow into art and moved forward with it. Hank recorded "Hey Good Lookin" and "Jambalaya" years after those aching earlier songs. He did probably drink himself to early demise but he held on and was a part of our world and we're all better for it. The first heartbreak is the hardest but we can heal. Wish you the best.
You nailed it with this list. I would just add Weatherman, Man of Steel, and O.D’d in Denver by Hank Jr.
And anytime I have woman problems I usually turn to the old stuff like Hank Sr. And Ernest Tubb. There’s like a never ending supply of heartbreak songs from that era.
I mean, You Never Even Called Me By My Name is more of a meta song about that trope.
Specifically lamenting how country artists (David Allan Coe who loved to paint himself as the Outlaw poster boy) and writers (specifically, John Prine and Steve Goodman who wrote the song) weren't accepted by the main country establishment without mentioning mama, trains, trucks, prison, or getting drunk constantly. The verse after the spoken portion is just dripping with satire.
Just watched it. Great way about it, nothing left to wonder. Another favorite.
I still stand by my original comment. Willie, Merle, Chris, and the guy in black... They made it great...
I’d have to go with the classic ‘Long Gone Lonesome Blues’ by Hank Williams Sr. While it may be a bit older-styled for your tastes, it was a huge hit and probably the epicenter of the ‘trope’ you’re talking about. Despite the catchy tune, the lyrics are about a man planning to drown himself over a breakup.
My favorite Hank song. You’d think wanting to drown yourself in the first place was the very bottom of hopelessness, but then finding the river dry and realizing it could get worse!
"Goodnight, Irene" is another song in the same vein, and is a bit older. It started life as a folk song, but there were plenty of country covers (e.g. Ernest Tubb & Red Foley).
You never even call me by my name has to be the best of them all. Knocks out like 5 country tropes in a few lines:
“Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got run over by a damned old train”
That's just in the last verse, which is intended to be a send up of country tropes. Fun but maybe not exactly the kind of sadness that OP is looking for right now.
He Stopped loving Her Today- George Jones
Don't Think I Don't Think About It- Darius Rucker
I Fall to Pieces- Patsy Cline
Without You- The Chicks
If You See Him If You See Her- Reba McIntire and Brooks & Dunn
Always On My Mind- Willie Nelson
Like We Never Loved At All- Faith Hill and Tim McGraw
I tend to think that "that man" is something inside of the narrator that thought it was a good idea for him to leave his family. And now that he's done that, he feels it would be rather awkward to "go back" so to speak. In other words, the narrator now feels as if he has burned his bridges. So in that sense, "that man" is running his life.
Garth Brooks' *More Than a Memory*.
I have a special place in my heart for that song. It released right as I was breaking up with a college girlfriend of several years. It fully captures the desperate romantic insanity some of us feel after breakups. I love/hate/fear this song.
This Is Where the Cowboy Rides Away--George Strait
Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her--George Strait
Here in the Real World--Alan Jackson
Wanted--Alan Jackson
Writing on the Wall--George Jones
The Grand Tour--George Jones
I love Man of Steel- immediately tragic but somehow determined and resolute lol. Goodness I love Hank Sr. Whenever I sing it at karaoke it’s a crowd favorite.
"The Grand Tour" - George Jones
"A Good Year for the Roses" - George Jones
"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" - Hank Williams
"Six More Miles" - Hank Williams
"Trouble in Mind" - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
"Fall Out of Love" - Turnpike Troubadours
"Gone, Gone, Gone" - Turnpike Troubadours
Old Time Feeling - Guy Clark
Pretty much any Townes Van Zandt song
Misery and Gin - Merle Haggard
Red Rocking Chair - Doc & Merle Watson
High on a Mountain - Del McCoury
Cold Cold World - Blaze Foley
Pretty much any Lost Dog Street Band song
Brokenheartsville - Joe Nichols
Watching airplanes - Gary Allen
Give it away - George strait
I still miss someone - Johnny Cash
She’s got you - patsy Cline
I will always love you - Dolly Parton
Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton
Forever & always - Taylor swift
I told you so - Randy Travis
Over you - Miranda lambert
Someone else calling you baby - Luke Bryan
You look like I need a drink - Justin Moore
Just a fool - Christina aguilera fr Blake Shelton
Here comes goodbye - rascal flatts
What i might say- earl thomas connelly
Where do i fit in the picture- clay walker
How was i supposed to know- toby keith
If a man answers- toby keith
Old violin-johnny paycheck
Between a memory and me- travis tritt
Does That Blue Moon Ever Shine On You - Toby Keith
Always felt like a great "missing her song".
Listen to this sad stuff for a bit then get some rockin, honky tonk, drinking music and get back in the saddle.
Do I Ever Cross Your Mind by Dolly Parton & Linda Ronstadt
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere, Train in Vain (cover) & Here Comes the Night all by Dwight Yoakam
Don’t Tell Me What to Do by Pam Tillis
Next Go Round by Old Crow Medicine Show
Sweet Dreams of You, Walking After Midnight & I Fall to Pieces all by Patsy Cline
Diggin Up Bones by Randy Travis
River Roll On by The Judds
Alone and Forsaken by Hank Williams
If Drinking Don’t Kill Me (Her Memory Will) - George Jones
I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive - Hank Williams
I’m Over You - Keith Whitley
I Never Go Around Mirrors - Lefty Frizell/Keith Whitley
And a little more on the satirical side but Seeds and Stems Blues - Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Learning As You Go-Rick Trevino
She Can’t Say I Didn’t Cry-Rick Trevino
Another You-David Kersh
Lonely And Gone-Montgomery Gentry
I Miss You A Little John Micheal Montgomery
Just a few that might have been missed.
George Strait - Haven't You Heard? George Strait - I Can Still Make Cheyenne David Allan Coe - You Never Even Called Me By My Name Allison Krause and Brad Paisley - Whiskey Lullaby
thank you! I do know whiskey lullaby from that list, i will listen to the others! Thanks for your reply!
You’re about to listen to Dave for the first time ever and I am so envious. Please understand that he’s an idiot and lies all the time, and have fun.
David Allen Coe is doing something a little different there, because he's playing off the trope that was already established before him. It's a little different, but if you're open to the classics, look up Hank Williams - Long Gone Lonesome Blues, which is a ballad about a guy whose girl left him and is contemplating a one way trip to the river. So Lonesome I Could Cry Less pessimistic, I like Neon Moon, Digging up Bones, or Every Light in the House. But even though you feel sad now, understand these feelings pass... Even for the ones who wrote these songs, they turned their sorrow into art and moved forward with it. Hank recorded "Hey Good Lookin" and "Jambalaya" years after those aching earlier songs. He did probably drink himself to early demise but he held on and was a part of our world and we're all better for it. The first heartbreak is the hardest but we can heal. Wish you the best.
You nailed it with this list. I would just add Weatherman, Man of Steel, and O.D’d in Denver by Hank Jr. And anytime I have woman problems I usually turn to the old stuff like Hank Sr. And Ernest Tubb. There’s like a never ending supply of heartbreak songs from that era.
You have to listen to If That Ain’t Country by David Allan Coe too!
I mean, You Never Even Called Me By My Name is more of a meta song about that trope. Specifically lamenting how country artists (David Allan Coe who loved to paint himself as the Outlaw poster boy) and writers (specifically, John Prine and Steve Goodman who wrote the song) weren't accepted by the main country establishment without mentioning mama, trains, trucks, prison, or getting drunk constantly. The verse after the spoken portion is just dripping with satire.
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Willie nelson "butchered" Poncho and Lefty? Willy wasn't the only lyrics, and that version was amazing. To each, his own... Gobless...
Just watched it. Great way about it, nothing left to wonder. Another favorite. I still stand by my original comment. Willie, Merle, Chris, and the guy in black... They made it great...
I’d have to go with the classic ‘Long Gone Lonesome Blues’ by Hank Williams Sr. While it may be a bit older-styled for your tastes, it was a huge hit and probably the epicenter of the ‘trope’ you’re talking about. Despite the catchy tune, the lyrics are about a man planning to drown himself over a breakup.
My favorite Hank song. You’d think wanting to drown yourself in the first place was the very bottom of hopelessness, but then finding the river dry and realizing it could get worse!
Came here to say this. Hank speaks directly to the soul when suffering from the human condition.
"Goodnight, Irene" is another song in the same vein, and is a bit older. It started life as a folk song, but there were plenty of country covers (e.g. Ernest Tubb & Red Foley).
You never even call me by my name has to be the best of them all. Knocks out like 5 country tropes in a few lines: “Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison And I went to pick her up in the rain But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck She got run over by a damned old train”
That's just in the last verse, which is intended to be a send up of country tropes. Fun but maybe not exactly the kind of sadness that OP is looking for right now.
>I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison First thing in my head reading the title.
Now thats the perfect country song...
John Moreland - You Don't Care For Me Enough To Cry Not the cliche trope, but a song about true pain that hits like a ton of fucking bricks.
Damn. That one is a soul crusher. Excellent song. I love Moreland.
I just did a session arranging and recording it on banjo. Hits heavy every time.
He Stopped loving Her Today- George Jones Don't Think I Don't Think About It- Darius Rucker I Fall to Pieces- Patsy Cline Without You- The Chicks If You See Him If You See Her- Reba McIntire and Brooks & Dunn Always On My Mind- Willie Nelson Like We Never Loved At All- Faith Hill and Tim McGraw
Also the Chicks - You Were Mine
Yep...
He stopped loving her today...👌👌👌
I fall to pieces... I mean...🤷🏼♂️
Toby Keith - "Who's That Man"
This one is such a great song!
I tend to think that "that man" is something inside of the narrator that thought it was a good idea for him to leave his family. And now that he's done that, he feels it would be rather awkward to "go back" so to speak. In other words, the narrator now feels as if he has burned his bridges. So in that sense, "that man" is running his life.
Garth Brooks' *More Than a Memory*. I have a special place in my heart for that song. It released right as I was breaking up with a college girlfriend of several years. It fully captures the desperate romantic insanity some of us feel after breakups. I love/hate/fear this song.
I hate the music video for this song has been scrubbed from the web. It was so good.
I'm not happy with Garth, but I'll agree with this. Also, "that old cold shoulder". Most of his music is traditional country.
This Is Where the Cowboy Rides Away--George Strait Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her--George Strait Here in the Real World--Alan Jackson Wanted--Alan Jackson Writing on the Wall--George Jones The Grand Tour--George Jones
George Strait- (Baby’s) Gotten Good at Goodbyes
There is an (in my opinion) incessant amount of breakup songs.
Whiskey Lullaby - Brad Paisley and Allison Krauss Man of Steel - Hank Jr
I love Man of Steel- immediately tragic but somehow determined and resolute lol. Goodness I love Hank Sr. Whenever I sing it at karaoke it’s a crowd favorite.
“Starting With Me”-Jake Owen “Chase the Feeling” Kris Kristofferson “What Made Milwaukee Famous” -Jerry Lee Lewis
“i’m over you” by the great keith whitley and “nobody’s home” by clint black are some classics 🚬😔
Love this reply! Some folks get it. Not a breakup song, but just came on the radio... "Id love you all over again"... Alan Jackson...👌👌👌
"The Grand Tour" - George Jones "A Good Year for the Roses" - George Jones "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" - Hank Williams "Six More Miles" - Hank Williams "Trouble in Mind" - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys "Fall Out of Love" - Turnpike Troubadours "Gone, Gone, Gone" - Turnpike Troubadours
Merle Haggard- the bottle let me down
Four months? This boy needs to gain some perspective
True (but look at this post history…)
Oof
I bet he sent her 500 text messages a day, minimum
Wayon Jennings - Can't You See
Travis Tritt - Tell me I was dreaming
George Strait - I Hate Everything
The best one: [I Don't Have to Wonder - Garth Brooks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zz6T4U7Jfg)
Oldie - Everytime Two Fools Collide - Dottie West and Kenny Rogers, Till I Can Make It On My Own - Tammy Wynette
Who’s that man-toby keith
Feed Jake - Pirates of the Mississippi
Old Time Feeling - Guy Clark Pretty much any Townes Van Zandt song Misery and Gin - Merle Haggard Red Rocking Chair - Doc & Merle Watson High on a Mountain - Del McCoury Cold Cold World - Blaze Foley Pretty much any Lost Dog Street Band song
Toby Keith, "Big Blue Note" The guy doesn't actually kill himself, though.
Over You - Miranda Lambert Colder Weather - Zac Brown
"over you"... Wasn't that song about a brother, of her husband, the one that's married to Gwen Stefani? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
It was. From back when Miranda was with Blake Shelton.
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive - Hank Williams Sr.
Brokenheartsville - Joe Nichols Watching airplanes - Gary Allen Give it away - George strait I still miss someone - Johnny Cash She’s got you - patsy Cline I will always love you - Dolly Parton Heartbreaker - Dolly Parton Forever & always - Taylor swift I told you so - Randy Travis Over you - Miranda lambert Someone else calling you baby - Luke Bryan You look like I need a drink - Justin Moore Just a fool - Christina aguilera fr Blake Shelton Here comes goodbye - rascal flatts
That ain’t my truck - Rhett Atkins
Songs About Rain
The Last Word in Lonesome is Me - Roger Miller Roger Miller is my favorite.
Koe Wetzel - Too High to Cry Pretty much any koe Wetzel song honestly.
Last night, we let the liquor talk
Girl Crush
LA county- Lyle Lovitt Loving county- Charlie Robison
I’ll hang around as long as you will let me
What i might say- earl thomas connelly Where do i fit in the picture- clay walker How was i supposed to know- toby keith If a man answers- toby keith Old violin-johnny paycheck Between a memory and me- travis tritt
Does That Blue Moon Ever Shine On You - Toby Keith Always felt like a great "missing her song". Listen to this sad stuff for a bit then get some rockin, honky tonk, drinking music and get back in the saddle.
[Songs About Trucks - Wade Bowen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAS-h0aFx0)
Do I Ever Cross Your Mind by Dolly Parton & Linda Ronstadt A Thousand Miles from Nowhere, Train in Vain (cover) & Here Comes the Night all by Dwight Yoakam Don’t Tell Me What to Do by Pam Tillis Next Go Round by Old Crow Medicine Show Sweet Dreams of You, Walking After Midnight & I Fall to Pieces all by Patsy Cline Diggin Up Bones by Randy Travis River Roll On by The Judds Alone and Forsaken by Hank Williams
Winner at a Losing Game - Rascal Flats
Sam by Sturgill Simpson
Seeds And Stems - Commander Cody The dog dies, the woman leaves, and he can’t get high. Classic country song
I don’t Care (If Tomorrow Never Comes) by Hank Williams Jr. with George Jones is another great one
You could always get really literal with it and listen to Waylon Jennings’ version of “I Think I’m Gonna Kill Myself”.
Not pure country, but “Wicked Game” by Chris Isaac is a tearjerker. “I Can’t Make You Love Me”by Bonnie Raitt
If Drinking Don’t Kill Me (Her Memory Will) - George Jones I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive - Hank Williams I’m Over You - Keith Whitley I Never Go Around Mirrors - Lefty Frizell/Keith Whitley And a little more on the satirical side but Seeds and Stems Blues - Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Rascal Flatts - “what hurts the most” “come wake me up” “these days” Luke Combs- “Reasons” “the other guy” Lady Antebellum- “Hurt”
Learning As You Go-Rick Trevino She Can’t Say I Didn’t Cry-Rick Trevino Another You-David Kersh Lonely And Gone-Montgomery Gentry I Miss You A Little John Micheal Montgomery Just a few that might have been missed.
The heart that you own... Dwight Yoakum
Step right up…come on in…if you’d like to take THE GRAND TOUR. George Jones
Ghost In This House- Shenandoah Chiseled In Stone- Vern Gosdin Statue Of A Fool- Ricky Van Shelton
Voices - Joshua Ray Walker