Sad Songs

Well, I just have a different opinion about the what makes up the 20 most heartbreaking songs of all time. First of all, you can hardly do better than Derek & the Dominoes playing with Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins (that’s the second song in a two-song sequence below), but the first song is heart-wrenching:

Then there is The River by the Boss:

If you can top that you’ve been yanked around worse than I have.

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.