Tiny Broken Heart

Tiny Broken Heart is a song written by Eddie Hill, Charlie Louvin, and Ira Louvin. The Louvin Brothers recorded it in 1956 for their first album, Tragic Songs of Life. It has since become a bluegrass standard.

Cover versions

• Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard for one of their 1960s recordings. A remastered version appears on Pioneering Women of Bluegrass, (1996, Smithsonian Folkways).
• Doc Watson also recorded the song in the early sixties, but did not release it. Later it emerged on Songs From the Southern Mountains (1994, Sugar Hill)
• The Bluegrass Cardinals, for their Home is Where the Heart Is (1984, Sugar Hill).
• Dan Tyminski included it on his solo album, Carry Me Across the Mountain (2000, Doobie Shea) and performed it with Alison Krauss and Union Station for Live (2002, Rounder)