Golden Era Country Wrist-slitters

This always seemed like an almost-parody of an abject tidal wave of a C&W everything's-gone-to-shit wallowing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9p-_HYw830

oops
meant to post this, but that pretty much works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mhw_DGIW5o

But this is the real deal right here, the most detailed drunko depresso documentation this side of Frederick Exley. Extra points for milking his divorce from Tammy Wynette for applause in the final line of this performance...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nKeZc61DLY

Poor little J-o-e-y. He thinks it's Christmas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=912DKxD0H1U

Keith does a solid Tammy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdnlK8KXE38

Willie goes apocalyptic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scMvF7Z0Wk0

and even more apocalyptic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOA9G81s1XI

Porter Wagoner. "Could it be he loved and lost? Or could it be that he was lost and unloved? Whatever it might be, it's a pitiful sight to see."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WojWSXSco8

ohh holy shit, yes!

bookmarking this thread.

btw george jones IS THE KING OF HEARTBREAK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIEwgkcVWLk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtDLN4LoPZA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua_oYGxXi4k

this is pretty brutal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyMy9iGJb2I

Merle always seems to be secretly enjoying himself but i have got pretty canned to this a few times

this definitely gives George Jones a run for his money for one of the saddest country songs ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZIZ6gmE_mo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqKgUmMG0gA

can we please type the names of these songs/artists so I don't have to click every goddamn link to see which tunes have already been posted?

Warner Mack - Sittin' In An All Nite Cafe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REohDrkt5I4

I have never heard original version of OP. Admit I stopped looking circa. 2005.

thx!

bookmarked as fuck

Dan, that Psycho song is incredible

'Psycho' is superb. As are most of these songs, but they're all marred by the curse of seeing terrible modern artists covering them in the related youtube links. NONONONONOO.

Fuck you, Jools Holland. Fuck you, Amanda Palmer.

Kenny Rogers and The First Edition - Ruby. Really dark song, must have felt even more so in 1972. A pop-country cousin of Sam Stone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1e9p6J89rQ

Yeah, and Elvis Costello covering "Psycho." The original is unforgettable, really sets the bar high for the incredibly bizarre murder ballad, and obviously received little to no airplay when it was released. Written by Leon Payne, and if you do some googling there are numerous (probably apocryphal) stories about how it came to be written. (xpost)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Azui-cs9DQ

And another great Charlie Rich weeper - "There Won't Be Anymore".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma7fOmyUOuk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vpd0KUezlk

Poor Buford Wilson.

Bobby Bare's take on 500 Miles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgnaavPxSmk

A song so sad it makes Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds literally weep on-stage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YoGRiITIUQ

Charlie Feathers with his minimalist miserable rockabilly take on "Lonely Mound of Clay" - sounds a lot like what Springsteen went for on Nebraska.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrw4FnqpSnE

Another real pretty Charlie Feathers number... the demo version of "Man In Love".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsvM9sx1bxU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEw1K5OGDgA

oops, that's Vernon Wray - Lonely Son

Hank Thompson - Warm Red Wine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzYi1LPhgfg

Ferlin Husky's supremely maudlin cautionary tale "Drunken Driver."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-kykDYQw0

I've been meaning to track down that Vernon Wray for awhile - really nice.

Obvious maybe, but here's Merle knocking out "Lonesome Fugitive" and "Sing Me Back Home" live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU0Mw-NVmWQ

Why does his mama pray his crops would fail in the first verse? I never got that.

oh wait it's cause he "raised a lot of Caine", so she's praying his Caine-raising will fail, right?

Moe Bandy - I Just Started Haitin' Cheatin' Songs Today

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ollJ1EIGH1s

honktonk sicko Arkey Blue with Daddy's Sick Again and Too Many Pills:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jWf_zUVWGM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pobh9HI-jpY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxqLunc9NjY

Yes yes yes to the Charlie Rich.

Kris Kristofferson had a few things to say. I'm partial to From the Bottle to the Bottom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arawfzIaN9s

Guy Clark's Randall Knife is from the early 80s but Desperados is mid-70s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFb1lGMvS3I

And Mickey Newbury - The Future's Not What It Used To Be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw_v83e8L3E