If there is one thing that Country Music understands, it's the human condition. The music that we all know and love touches every emotional fiber and human being can generate.

We have our songs about happiness and love. We have our songs about anger and disappointment. We also have our songs about sadness. Nobody touched a deeper shade of blue than the legendary Hank Williams did.

I'm sure with today's modern psychoanalysis doctors would have been able to see that Hank Sr was headed down a road of destruction. I believe it was through that pain, the emotional and physical, that he was able to deliver to us the closest description of what true sadness feels like. If you've ever suffered from depression or been truly sad then you know this song. You might not know the words but you know the feeling.

It was on this date in 1949 Hank Sr. stepped up to the recording studio microphones at the E.T. Herzog Studios in Cincinnati and recorded three songs. He put down on tape "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It"," I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin' " and the song I have been telling you about. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry".

The imagery that this song paints lyrically is truly a picture of a world without hope. The sadness and despair that rings out in lines like :

Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die?
That means he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry

Or this other haunting verse that perfectly captures the emptiness of a broken heart:

The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry

There are a lot of people that wonder why Hank's life ended up the way it did. The way his time on this planet was cut too short by demons created by his own genius. Was the physical pain of his own body too much to endure? His ability to connect with an audience, was it a gift? Was it a curse? Was it simply the way it had to be in order for the story to finish the way it was destined to finish?

Regardless if you ever need a reason to weep or clean your own emotional filters of the sadness within, this song, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry is the perfect soundtrack for a journey to the darkest part of our soul.Just make sure you can find your way back out of the dark.

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