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Aarik Danielson shares a list of nine of his favorite sad songs and talks for nine-ish minutes about a few songs from his list. Please note: Our two audio files were recorded separately and there's a bit of a layering effect here and there but I'm not doing any editing so it is what it is. I don't think it's too annoying and hopefully you won't either.

Nine of Aarik's Favorite Sad Songs:

1) Tom Waits, "Tom Traubert's Blues"

2) Elton John, "The Last Song"

3) Peter Gabriel, "I Grieve"

4) Ray Lamontagne, "Burn"

5) Radiohead, "Let Down"

6) Patty Griffin, "Long Ride Home"

7) Frightened Rabbit, "Holy"

8) John Prine, "Hello in There"

9) Lucy Dacus, "Pillar of Truth"

Aarik Danielsen is a Midwestern journalist, essayist and poet whose writing exists at the four corners of literature, human dignity, pop culture and theology. Rejecting the title "content" creator (however you pronounce it), he hopes to create meaningful dispatches from a place of holy discontent.

Aarik has covered the arts for more than a decade at the Columbia Daily Tribune. He writes a weekly column, The (Dis)content, Wednesdays at Fathom Magazine. His bylines have appeared at Image Journal, Plough, Rain Taxi, Entropy, Think Christian, Christ and Pop Culture, Sojourners, Mockingbird, EcoTheo Review, Relief Journal, The Englewood Review of Books, The New Territory, The Blue Mountain Review, The Curator, Ekstasis and more.

Aarik also teaches at his alma mater, the University of Missouri. He lives in Columbia, Missouri with his wife and son.

Charlotte Donlon is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website. Charlotte’s writing and work are rooted in noticing how art helps us belong to ourselves, others, God, and the world. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other. You can subscribe to her newsletter and connect with her onTwitter and Instagram.