Song · CMAT
“When a Good Man Cries” by CMAT
From the album EURO-COUNTRY (2025)
“When a Good Man Cries” by CMAT appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations in 2025. It was first released in 2025 on the album EURO-COUNTRY. Its best result is #78 on the WXPN Top 100 Songs of 2025. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #393 indie & aaa song of 2025.
CMAT turns the knife on herself in "When a Good Man Cries", the fifth single from her third album, Euro-Country, released in August 2025. By her own account the song is her beating herself up for making an ex-partner cry, and it plays out as a reckoning: remorse, reflection and a shot at redemption from a narrator who wants to change the way she treats her lovers.
She put it third on the album, right behind the title track, on purpose, because she wanted the record to go full country from the jump so nobody could mistake what it was. It sounds the part, with Reid Jenkins' fiddle up front and Oli Deakin, who co-produced with her, covering bass, acoustic guitar, synths and drums alongside Morgan Karabel. Colm Conlan plays piano, and Jonathan Low mixed it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2025 | 90 |
| 2025 | 184 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2025 | 200 |
| 2025 | 78 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Top 100 Songs of 2025 | 100 |
Also listed as: When A Good Man Cries.
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