Song · Rosanne Cash
“Sea Of Heartbreak” by Rosanne Cash
From the album The List (2009)
“Sea Of Heartbreak” by Rosanne Cash appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2009 and 2013. It was first released in 2009 on the album The List. Its best result is #10 on the WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2009. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #86 indie & aaa song of 2009 and #129 of the '00s.
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Rosanne Cash brought "Sea of Heartbreak" onto The List, her 2009 album, and called in Bruce Springsteen as a guest vocalist. The song goes back to 1961, when Don Gibson recorded it; Paul Hampton and Hal David wrote it.
It pictures lost love and loneliness as being adrift on an ocean of sadness, and it carries all that heartache on a melody that sounds surprisingly cheerful, a contrast that gives it its pull.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 19 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2009 | 89 |
| 2009 | 10 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2009 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 267 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2013 | 401 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
Also listed as: Sea of Heartbreak.
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