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"  The Orange County band Limbeck deals in alt-country of the rockin&amp;#039; variety: their latest, self-titled album is a document of what Am-era Wilco would have sounded like had the band heard Yankee Hotel Foxtrot before entering the studio. We asked their guitarist, Patrick Carrie, for his favorite sad country songs of all time -- those tunes that not only tug on the heartstrings, they grab and yank and pull and keep pulling until something breaks, leaving the listener into a puddle of emotional ooze. Yeah, those kind of country songs. &amp;quot;Do You Know How It Feels to Be Lonesome&amp;quot; by Gram Parsons Sample lyric: I hope you&amp;#039;re out and happy now/Doing up the town cause you know how/Every time I hear your name I want to die &amp;quot;Definitely one of my favorite Gram Parsons&amp;#039; songs. It sounds upbeat and classic like it&amp;#039;s a Hank Williams song, but it really gets across the point about how weirded out the country scene in the early &amp;#039;70&amp;#039;s was by a hippie playin&amp;#039; sad songs.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m So Lonesome I Could Cry&amp;quot; by Hank Williams Sample lyric: Did you ever see a robin weep/When leaves begin to die/That means he&amp;#039;s lost the will to live/I&amp;#039;m so lonesome I could cry &amp;quot;I mean... Right? This one&amp;#039;s rough, a bird that&amp;#039;s lost its will to live -- and then that whining steel guitar solo. It floors me.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Are You Sure&amp;quot; by Willie Nelson Sample lyric: Don&amp;#039;t let my tears persuade you, I had hoped I wouldn&amp;#039;t cry/But lately, teardrops seem a part of me &amp;quot;Every so often, we&amp;#039;ll find ourselves playin&amp;#039; a show in the middle of nowhere, to a bunch of people that could really care less, and even the bartender isn&amp;#039;t giving you the time of day... this is my theme song for those days.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I Just Don&amp;#039;t Give a Damn&amp;quot; by George Jones Sample lyric: I&amp;#039;ve done everything I can to make you happy/But every word I spoke you always put me down/Tomorrow my arms may ache and want to hold you/Oh but tonight I just don&amp;#039;t give a damn &amp;quot;This song is a nice follow-up to the last one...after you&amp;#039;re done crying, then you can just accept the way things are and forget about it all. Hopefully you&amp;#039;re still at the bar that sets the scene in the last one.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Will You Miss Me When I&amp;#039;m Gone?&amp;quot; by The Carter Family Sample lyric: You&amp;#039;re gonna miss me by my ways/You&amp;#039;re gonna miss me every day/Oh I know you will miss when I&amp;#039;m gone &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s tough to deal with death and dying, but this song takes it head-on, and you can think of this song in a handful of different contexts, too: Have I made enough of a dent on this world and the people around me that anyone will care when I&amp;#039;m not here anymore?&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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