In between songs, Richey speaks with Melissa Block about life on tour, her late start in music and the "community" of a sad song.

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LaVette sounds as if she means every word of Nelson's sad song, but the reality is that she herself has picked up the pieces of a career full of heartbreak.

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Bridges' guileless performance makes this piquant little indie tale of country music, redemption, and the love of a pretty younger woman such a sad-song charmer.

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It's like listening to a very sad Leonard Cohen song.

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Like many Nouvelle Vague reinventions, the lyric for "The Killing Moon" is delivered in a girlish deadpan, removing the song from its sad sentiments.

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She's a bit of a wimp and sings in one song that her sad little house is "enough, " only to immediately trade it in for a nicer one.

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Gainesbourg, most recently seen in Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep, infuses the song with qualities of Gondry's sad, surrealist love story.

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