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Recent Sad Releases
Dinosaur Jr.
Puke + Cry: The Sire Years, 1990-199 …
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This comprehensive compilation collects almost all of the '90s output from the middle period of this groundbreaking and guitar-shredding alt-rock band.
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Margo Price
Strays
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An adventurous, masterful record that can't quite be called Americana.
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Sad Song Highlights
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Performer
Stream
Pink Moon
Nick Drake
Nick Drake
Spotify
Superstar
Bonnie Bramlett
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Leon Russell
Carpenters
Spotify
It's Over
Bill Dees
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Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison
Pictures of You
Simon Gallup
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Roger O'Donnell
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Robert Smith
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Porl Thompson
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Laurence Tolhurst
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Lol Tolhurst
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Boris Williams
The Cure
Spotify
$1000 Wedding
Gram Parsons
Gram Parsons
She's Got You
Hank Cochran
Patsy Cline
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Hank Williams
Hank Williams
Wise Up
Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Bernard Albrecht
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Ian Curtis
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Peter Hook
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Stephen Morris
Joy Division
Spotify
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
Johnny Marr
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Morrissey
The Smiths
Blue Bayou
Joe Melson
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Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison
Time in a Bottle
Jim Croce
Jim Croce
Spotify
I Am the Cosmos
Chris Bell
Chris Bell
Spotify
He Stopped Loving Her Today
Bobby Braddock
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Curly Putman
George Jones
California Dreamin'
John Phillips
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Michelle Phillips
The Mamas & the Papas
Spotify
Me and My Charms
Kristin Hersh
Kristin Hersh
Spotify
Ruby's Arms
Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Spotify
Suzanne
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Spotify
I Know It's Over
Johnny Marr
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Morrissey
The Smiths
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
Johnny Marr
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Morrissey
The Smiths
I've Been a Mess
Mark Eitzel
American Music Club
Spotify
Rise
Mark Eitzel
American Music Club
Yesterday Once More
John Bettis
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Richard Carpenter
Carpenters
Spotify
In Dreams
Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison
Spotify
Only the Lonely
Joe Melson
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Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison
I Never Go Around Mirrors (I've Got a Heartache to Hide)
Lefty Frizzell
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Darlene Shafer
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Sanger D. Shafer
Lefty Frizzell
You Win Again
Hank Williams
Hank Williams
Pain in My Heart
Naomi Neville
Otis Redding
Spotify
Monday, Monday
John Phillips
The Mamas & the Papas
The Bottle Let Me Down
Merle Haggard
Merle Haggard
Spotify
These Arms of Mine
Otis Redding
Otis Redding
Chan Chan
Compay Segundo
Buena Vista Social Club
Crying Time
Buck Owens
Ray Charles
One Piece at a Time
Wayne Kemp
Johnny Cash
Spotify
Jimmy Brown the Newsboy
A.P. Carter
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
Cinnamon Girl
Neil Young
Crazy Horse
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Neil Young
Spotify
These Days (I Barely Get By)
George Jones
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Tammy Wynette
George Jones
Spotify
Detroit City
Danny Dill
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Mel Tillis
Bobby Bare
Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow
A.P. Carter
The Carter Family
I Could Fall in Love
Keith Thomas
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Keith Thomas
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Keith Thomas
Selena
Hello Walls
Willie Nelson
Faron Young
Spotify
Walkin' the Floor Over You
Ernest Tubb
Ernest Tubb
Crazy
Willie Nelson
Patsy Cline
Spotify
Them There Eyes
Maceo Pinkard
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Doris Tauber
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William Tracey
Billie Holiday
Sheila Take a Bow
The Smiths
Spotify
Hearts on Fire
Walter Egan
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Tom Guidera
Gram Parsons & the Fallen Angels
Why Baby Why
Darrell Edwards
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George Jones
Webb Pierce
Bird on a Wire
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Spotify
Mon Dieu
Charles Dumont
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Michel Vaucaire
Édith Piaf
Spotify
Me and Paul
Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
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