Saturday, June 27, 2009

Cry Cry Cry: Cry Cry Cry

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Johnny Cash: Cry Cry Cry [ purchase ] Cry Cry Cry: By Way of Sorrow (written by Julie Miller ) [ purchase ] I batted around a few differe...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Cry Cry Cry: Cry On Demand

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Ryan Adams: Cry On Demand [ purchase ] Though it's somewhat blasphemous to say so, I'm a much bigger fan of Ryan Adams the sensitiv...

Cry, Cry, Cry: You´re Gonna Make Me Cry

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O.V. Wright : You´re Gonna Make Me Cry [ purchase ] "Love is something... it´s hard to figure out, but love is something the whole roun...

Cry, Cry, Cry : Dancing With Tears In My eyes

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Alvin Youngblood Hart : Dancing With Tears In My Eyes [ purchase ] I love Alvin Youngblood Hart because he's a great guitar player, si...

Cry Cry Cry: My Blue Tears

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Dolly Parton : My Blue Tears [ purchase ] Dolly Parton. My first impression of her had nothing to do with music. It was the enormous breasts...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Cry Cry Cry: Everyday I Have To Cry Some

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Arthur Alexander: Everyday I Have To Cry Some [ purchase ] If you are only going to listen to one of my tearful posts this week, this shoul...

Cry Cry Cry: 1000 Oceans

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Tori Amos: 1000 Oceans [ Purchase ] This Tori Amos song is from her 1999 double-disc album "To Venus and Back", which featured a ...

Cry Cry Cry: Tears Don’t Care Who Cries Them

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kd lang : Tears Don‘t Care Who Cries Them [ purchase ] Patsy Cline. Brenda Lee. Loretta Lynn. Female country singers who had (or have) big v...

Cry Cry Cry: You Would Cry Too If It Happened To You...

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Lesley Gore: It's My Party Lesley Gore: Judy's Turn To Cry [ purchase ] These pop hits from 1963 (sung by 16-year-old Lesley Gore ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Cry Cry Cry: Crying, Waiting, Hoping (and sometimes Prayin')

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Buddy Holly: Crying, Waiting, Hoping [ purchase ] This gem is a home recording made by Buddy Holly in 1958, shortly before his untimely d...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Cry Cry Cry: Cry on my Shoulder

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Bonnie Raitt : Cry on My Shoulder [ purchase ] Some musical pairings seem obvious in retrospect, but make no apparent sense at the time. In ...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Cry Cry Cry: All My Tears

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Julie Miller: All My Tears [ purchase ] It's no secret I'm a coverhound, and this one's been done plenty raw and emotional, bot...

Cry Cry Cry: O Mary Don't You Weep

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Bruce Springsteen: O Mary Don't You Weep [purchase] O Mary Don't You Weep is a pre-Civil War era spiritual that calls to mind theme...

Cry Cry Cry : Voir un ami pleurer

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Jacques Brel : Voir un ami pleurer [ purchase ] " Voir un ami pleurer " ("To See A Friend Cry"), was on Jacques Brel ...
Sunday, June 21, 2009

Cry Cry Cry: The Sky Is Crying

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Stevie Ray Vaughan: The Sky Is Crying [ purchase ] The guitar wail. The vocal moan. The heartstring masculinity of the core metaphor. The...

Cry Cry Cry: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

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Al Green: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry [ purchase ] This is a theme I can really work with. I love depressing music. Let's start ...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Gender Benders: Wilder Than Her

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Dar Williams: Wilder Than Her [purchase] out of print EP - 1997 Dar Williams: When I Was a Boy [ purchase ] So... I'm still at my mom...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Gender Benders: The Ballad of Mary Magdalen

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Richard Shindell: The Ballad of Mary Magdalen [ purchase ] American expat singer-songwriter and ex-seminarian Richard Shindell is known for...

Gender Benders: Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis

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Tom Waits : Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis [ purchase ] In every Tom Waits song, there's always (at least) one killer lin...

Gender Benders: Now I’m Your Mom

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David Byrne : Now I‘m Your Mom [ purchase ] I know a couple with two kids. When the kids had both reached the age of eighteen, the woman of ...