Artist	Song
Etta James	Miss Pitiful
from The Essential Etta James (1993)
Amy Winehouse	You Know I'm No Good
from Back to Black (2007)
Tom Waits	Hang Down Your Head
from Rain Dogs (1990)
Bob Dylan	Tangled Up In Blue
from The Essential Bob Dylan (2000)
The National	Mistaken for Strangers
from Boxer (2007)
Soul Asylum	Misery
from Black Gold: The Best of Soul Asylum (2000)
Jeff Buckley	Hallelujah
from Grace (Legacy Edition) [Audio Version] (1994)
Peggy Lee	Is That All There Is? (Remastered)
from Peggy Lee: The Singles Collection (2002)
The Replacements	Here Comes a Regular
from Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? - The Best of the Replacements (2006)
Willie Nelson	Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain
from The Essential Willie Nelson (2003)
Suzanne Vega	Small Blue Thing
from Suzanne Vega (1986)
The Magnetic Fields	When You're Old and Lonely
from Get Lost (1995)
Nine Inch Nails	Hurt (Quiet)
from Further Down the Spiral (1995)
Yo La Tengo	Tears Are In Your Eyes
from And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000)
Low	Weight of Water
from Secret Name (1999)
The Soggy Bottom Boys	I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow
from O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) (2000)
Frank Sinatra	Glad To Be Unhappy
from In The Wee Small Hours (1998)
American Music Club	Another Morning
from Love Songs for Patriots (2004)
The Decemberists	Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right
from Billy Liar - EP (2004)
Shout Out Louds	Go Sadness
from Howl Howl Gaff Gaff (2005)
Annie Lennox	The Saddest Song (I've Got)
from Bare (2003)
Lambchop	The Man Who Loved Beer
from How I Quit Smoking (1996)
Lou Reed	Sad Song
from Between Thought and Expression: The Lou Reed Anthology (1992)
Jimmy Scott	Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
from The Fabulous Songs of Jimmy Scott (2003)
Antony & The Johnsons with Rufus Wainwright	What Can I Do? (With Rufus Wainwright)
from I Am a Bird Now (2007)

Comment:

Having the blues is one thing: feeling so blue that you’re stricken with the (melan)-collywobbles is quite another. Here, the poets of misery really excel themselves, whether it’s Tim Hardin (who never saw his 40th year) on “How Can We Hang On to a Dream”, or Richard Hawley, whose rich, lived-in baritone can do little to lighten the fact that “The Sun Refused to Shine”. Still, there’s always Skeeter Davis, who brought a naive charm to “The End of the World” in 1962, sounding much younger than her 30 years, and Emmylou Harris, whose gorgeously clear vocal on “Someone Like You” is so pretty it almost makes a mockery of melancholy.

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