Well Gregg,
maybe you should listen to something more upbeat but......Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan is an obvious one.
As is In The Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra.
A more obscure artist but really one of the best at writing broken hearted and downbeat songs,with no small amount of humour,truth and insight is Mark Eitzel.
Check out his Songs Of Love Live or his albums with American Music Club-California and Everclear being his most commercial and arguably best.
Voted songwriter of the year by Rolling Stone in '91,the best of his work is really worth checking out.
He's a lost American songwriting genius.
Good luck
maybe you should listen to something more upbeat but......Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan is an obvious one.
As is In The Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra.
A more obscure artist but really one of the best at writing broken hearted and downbeat songs,with no small amount of humour,truth and insight is Mark Eitzel.
Check out his Songs Of Love Live or his albums with American Music Club-California and Everclear being his most commercial and arguably best.
Voted songwriter of the year by Rolling Stone in '91,the best of his work is really worth checking out.
He's a lost American songwriting genius.
Good luck