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Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY (page 1/1) ------ performed by Hank Williams Memorial? | Reviewer: anonymous | 9/8/09 The 2nd anniversary of my brother's death is approaching. He was my only brother, and we were so close. This song captures how I feel? Can I get opinions on whether this song would be an appropriate memorial? Does it focus on my despair too much as opposed to focusing on my brother? Thanks for your help. BJ Thomas version | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/29/07 I also saw BJ Thomas' version of this song on PBS, and it was absolutely one of the greatest live performances that I've ever heard. I'm not a country fan, but Thomas' performance and the beauty of this song may make me take a more serious listen BJ Thomas Captures the Essence of This Song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/11/07 I recently saw BJ Thomas perform this song on a PBS show of country hits. His is one of the greatest performances of this song. His phrasing and haunting rendition of this song brings out the pain that Hank Williams must have been feeling when he wrote this timeless poetry. Nobody sang it like Hank | Reviewer: bev | 7/9/07 I remember as a child how lonesome this song would make me... and when I would hear a train in the distance, I would start singing this song. Although I am not a musician by any means, I do appreciate the country music of yesteryear, moreso than most I hear today. We recently inherited an old stereo with a ton of lp albums by some of the greatest country stars... It's great to sit back and listen to the crackling music come out bellowing those sometimes haunting tunes... bev ONLY COMPLAINT | Reviewer: DRUID13.LEE | 4/8/07 MR. HANK WILLIAMS SR. IS NO LONGER WITH US. THANK GOD WE AT LEAST HAVE SOME OF THE GREATEST COUNTRY MUSIC EVER! Great songs era. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/22/05 Yes, this song is absolutely filled with a soul of its own, yet it is one that everyone with at least a moderate degree of experience with life can relate to. It comes from a time when the Great Depression was not such a distant relative. I can remember when there were country singers who would get so worked up over a song, while they were performing, that they would sometimes express their great sadness by tearing and ripping their shirts off their bodies. Communicating such a feeling is not an easy task for the performer, yet Hank Williams was able to do it without tearing his shirt off. Mearly with his words and inflection in his voice that was a half yoldel he was able to create an atmosphere that anyone who heard him could understand and feel. Mark One of the greatest songs ever written | Reviewer: Dawn | 8/12/05 This has to be one of the greatest sad songs ever written. I believe Elvis said it was the saddest song he'd ever heard or sung. Hank Williams was a genius, no doubt about that. I agree with the above reviewer - today's so-called country music pales into insignificance compared with the great singers/songwriters of the past. Songman pays tribute to the master | Reviewer: Songman60 | 1/20/05 "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" epitomizes Country Music. It is so evoking. It almost makes one cry just to listen to it. It has to be the yardstick against which all country tunes should be measured, and I'm not talking the crap which today they call "Country Music". Today's "Country Music" is nothing more than pop music with a twang. I'd like to go back to the days of Hank Sr., Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Johnny Paycheck, Johnny Cash, et al. THOSE were true Country Musicians!!! If you don't like my opinion, that's okay, because music is a matter of taste. At least I CAN play it and write it...not just listen to it. I'll consider comments from TRUE musicians ONLY!!! Later, Griff Add Your New Review About The Song