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My three top ones:
Come All You Tenderhearted
The Water Lily
The Drunken Driver
Others?
Dream of a Miner's Child
youtube.com/watch?v=iP9gdgB_1xI
Bringing Mary Home
youtube.com/watch?v=zRFLZfv7Vw8
A Robin Built a Nest on Daddy's Grave
youtube.com/watch?v=VLU6uMaxvYI
I'm not prone to being particularly affected by music/song/art/etc.*, and I'm not aware of there being a bluegrass version but Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS1sJD4SWA0 gets my attention.
* = none of it reaches a quasi-orgasmic level of "...speaks to me."
Wait A Minute - Herb Pedersen,, /,,, Seldom Scene
Too Late For Praying ,,,,, Gordon Lightfoot
By The Time I Get To Phoenix ,,,,,,, Jimmy Webb /Glen Campbell
You Can Close Your Eyes (James Taylor)
#1 tearjerker for me, this popped up on YouTube when my mom died.
Wind Beneath My Wings (Bette Midler)
#2 tearjerker, this is the tune my mom requested at my dad's funeral
Go Rest High on That Mountain (Vince Gill)
Just an amazing tune to cleanse the tears...
I'm gonna add a 4th, an original tune written by my dear friend Tim Smith, may he Rest in Peace...
Nevernamed (T. Scott Smith)
... a tearjerker for me because Tim was so special to me, and I know the places and people he sings about in this tune. I've put my feet in that ancient creek he speaks of...
Damn, if I'm not tearing up now.
Edited by - banjoy on 11/19/2022 03:04:13
Teardrops Falling in the Snow. I cannot sing that one through without trearing up.
Ones that brought me to tears, the first time I heard them.
Tear Down the Fences - Ola Belle Reed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP-sE6eE2uA
Alone and Forsaken - Hank Williams, Sr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8mO6JVAShw
Before the Road - Sue Massek
I couldn’t find the Real World String Band version online. I did record it and uploaded it to my media on BHO. I extracted their version from the radio show “Old Kentucky Bound", hosted by Rich Kirby, on
https://birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/radio/programs/on-air-shows/
and so have my own personal copy of their version.
My version:
https://www.banjohangout.org/song/43439
Across the Great Divide - Kate Wolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Kn3j7o2yY
In My Next Life - J.D. Crowe & The New South
One I should have listed:
Tom Paxton’s “Cindy’s Cryin’”
Idk, Country Roads can hit me the right way at times.
She does it a capella, but it appeals to me: Kate Wolf "The Lilac and the Apple Tree"
https://www.bing.com/search?q=kate+wolf+the+lilac+and+the+apple&cvid
Edited by - Half Barbaric Twanger on 11/19/2022 13:17:23
...and let's not overlook Ned Luberecki's Cabin of Death:
I was fortunate to see John Prine at least five times and at most every show I would have a tear in my eye at some point, as he would sing something that would just pierce my heart. I don't cry easily but his words get to me.
The Hills Of Roane County. Crowe, Lawson & Williams.
The fields have turned brown The Gents
Edited by - heavy5 on 11/20/2022 03:22:29
More Gents
Little Bessie
Banks Of The Ohio
quote:
Originally posted by OwenI'm not prone to being particularly affected by music/song/art/etc.*, and I'm not aware of there being a bluegrass version but Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS1sJD4SWA0 gets my attention.
* = none of it reaches a quasi-orgasmic level of "...speaks to me."
And so I chose to play banjo. LOL
But, but, but, Brian, I didn't jump directly in. I had previously tried a strum stick. The ad says "No wrong notes," but after I had a colleague tune it for me, I was able to produce plenty of wrong (?) notes. 
"Echo Mountain"
James King's version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGnPj-Ty2Ew
Cedar Hill's version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7XfynuvKqk
James did it first, but for me, Cedar Hill's version hits harder...
"Last Kind Words" (Geeshie Wiley)
youtube.com/watch?v=oAKfy2W70Qg
"Drunkard's Lone Child" (Doc Boggs)
youtube.com/watch?v=7ooDfYaH08E
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
My favorite interpreter is the great blues/rockabilly voice Phil Alvin, here with some old-school trad guitar picking:
youtube.com/watch?v=0ML6KZSppZA
Tom Waits gives it soul as well, this clip with vintage photos:
youtube.com/watch?v=uUCVVU1qVdY
This relatively late-in-the-day rendition of "Kentucky" by Sonny and Bobby Osborne with Ronnie Reno riding shotgun always gets me. Encircled by the cream of bluegrass, soaking it in and shaking their heads in wonder. I think it was after Sonny had officially retired from banjo performing, but there's a nice break here:
youtube.com/watch?v=ZgcIHygY9FA
Edited by - ceemonster on 11/28/2022 18:26:23
quote:
Originally posted by Bill RogersOne I should have listed:
Tom Paxton’s “Cindy’s Cryin’”
A great song!
And from that same album, "Jimmy Newman". I can't even describe that one without tearing up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Seu8YwQl3HA
"All the old men in my life are gone" Pam Gadd.
death don't have no mercy in this land--Rev.Gary Davis
I've lately actually "listened to" the words of Play Me The Waltz Of The Angels, a song one of the guys at jams I attend sometimes sings, .... https://www.google.com/search?q=play+me+the+waltz+of+the+angels+lyrics&oq=play+me+the+waltz+of+the+angels&aqs=chrome.2.0i355i512j46i512j0i512l5j46i512j0i512l2.15916j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I Overlooked An Orchid because it's about regretting past decisions.
Regret is one of the saddest things.
I sometimes I get all choked up when I sing a song that a friend wrote, John Lee Smithfield, a side-story to the wreck of the Old 97.
John Lee Smithfield - Well Strung Bluegrass Band
John was an honest man who tried hard to provide for his family. Looking for work he hopped the Old 97 from Monroe to go to Spencer, not telling anyone his plans. The train wrecked, John was unaccounted for, and noone knew that John had died that day.
Edited by - Buddur on 12/06/2022 07:17:56
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