I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Uncle Jerry frames Hank Williams as the country-music genealogical analogue to Taylor Swift, a prolific songwriter whose catalogue is dominated by songs about heartbreak, loneliness, and failed relationships. The parallel is to Williams's catalogue as a whole rather than to evermore-specific lyric content. 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry' (1949) stands here as the representative anchor, Williams's most enduring lonesome-cataloguing song and a fair instance of the register Uncle Jerry was describing.