![]() On Free Again, Williams’ slide guitar is wonderfully punchy and textural, and he takes on his hardships with equal parts despair and humor, especially on the song “I’ve Grown So Ugly.” -A.R.C. One of my favorite blues records was recorded in 1962 by Williams, a Louisianan guitarist who spent years in the Louisiana State Penitentiary before getting released. ![]() Robert Pete Williams, Free Againįew can give voice to solitude quite like bluesmen. “There’s no need to watch the bridges that we’re burning,” he sings on “For the Good Times.” “Make believe you love me one more time.”- A.R.C. The rest of the album flits in and out of despair and acceptance, each track offering a different tonic for a different stage in the grieving process. While he’s penned breakup classics for other artists, like Johnny Cash and Ray Price, he sounds just as good singing them himself on his debut album, released in 1970-and particularly on the now-classic “Sunday Mornin Comin’ Down,” which recounts a two-beer breakfast. But often the most agonizing lyrics are the vaguest ones, allowing the listener to effortlessly project her heartbreak onto their own: “Do you feel ashamed,” she asks on “Scott Street,” “when you hear my name?”- A.R.C.ĭespite his slapstick name, Kris Kristofferson has long been a standard bearer for misery. The most famous song is “Motion Sickness,” which ossifies her real-life dalliance with Ryan Adams. I listened to that album on repeat that year, as if dunking my head in a lake over and over again to purify myself. Over quietly lapping electric guitars and droning strings, Bridgers sings of drowning, of graveyards and ghosts, of being emotionally tormented and breaking another’s heart. Her 2017 album, Stranger in the Alps, makes Punisher sound like a cheerful day at the beach. Chow Phoebe Bridgers, Stranger in the Alpsīridgers received an onslaught of attention and acclaim for last year’s tremendously sad Punisher. In lieu of broadcasting those, here are the albums that guided us through those overcast days that can still make us think someone is chopping onions in the next room.- Andrew R. But these are the ones that come, for us, from a more personal place that bring back memories too embarrassing to share in public. ![]() Of course, there are the undeniable universal choices, like Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, Joni Mitchell’s Blue Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks and Kanye West’s 808s and Heartbreak. “Star-Crossed” got us in our feelings and thinking about our personal favorite break-up albums.
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