Gretchen Peters – Sad Songs Make Me Happy
CMA-winning singer-songwriter and self-confessed 'Mistress of Melancholy' Gretchen Peters pulls on our musical heartstrings as she chooses her favourite sad country songs – including tracks by Emmylou Harris, Trisha Yearwood and Vince Gill – plus music from Gretchen herself.
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Gretchen Peters
On a bus to St Cloud
- The Essential Gretchen Peters.
- Proper.
- 006.
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Vern Gosdin
Set 'Em Up Joe
- Billboard Top Country Hits - 1989.
- BILLBOARD.
- 2.
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Emmylou Harris
Luxury Liner
- Portraits CD1.
- Reprise.
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George Jones & Tammy Wynette
Golden Ring
- Golden Ring.
- Epic.
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Jason Isbell
Live Oak
- Southeastern.
- Southeastern Records.
- 007.
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Angaleena Presley
Grocery Store
- American Middle Class.
- Thirty Tigers.
- 003.
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Dolly Parton
Down From Dover
- Dolly Parton: Greatest Hits.
- Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
- 19.
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Patty Loveless
You Don't Even Know Who I am
- Classics.
- Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd..
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Trisha Yearwood
Walkaway Joe (feat. Don Henley)
- Walkaway Joe.
- Universal Island Records Limited.
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Vince Gill
When I Call Your Name
- When I call your name.
- Universal - Island Records Limited.
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Brandy Clark
Hold my Hand
- Ten Stories.
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Gretchen Peters
Five Minutes
- The Essential Gretchen Peters.
- Proper.
- 012.
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Gene Watson
Farewell Party
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