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  When you begin an album with the song "Charlie's Song", which was released <as a single>, you set the tone for an album to follow with songs about people who have lost their children.  I'm going to give you this warning right now: this album is sad.  Not like blues-sad, even though a lot of these songs come out in that bluesy way, but they're sad-sad.  It is to that extent of where if you're going to put this one on at work or somewhere else where maybe you don't want to be openly weeping in public, maybe save this for home listening instead. Perhaps the best example of this sad song is "Ronan" which has guest vocals by Emily Grove.  It's a song about a child she just wants to see again and wonders how they would dress for Halloween.  There is a lyric that will break you which simply says: "You were my best four years".  Even if you don't have children, even if you don't have pets, you have to at least think ab...