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10 songs that feel like Traveling Alone

Matched to Traveling Alone by Jason Isbell on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

Traveling Alone
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Traveling Alone
Jason Isbell
safe 43/100 intensity 80 BPM
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Sonnet — The Verve moderate 84 BPM

A 99% feel-match — carries the same intimate pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (43/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (84 BPM).

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Dive — Ed Sheeran moderate 83 BPM

99% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (43/100). Same layered texture.

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Do Right Woman, Do Right Man — Aretha Franklin moderate 75 BPM

Keeps the same intimate pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (42/100). Measured 99% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (75 BPM).

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I Can Be That Woman — ABBA moderate 80 BPM

Measures 99% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (43/100). Same layered texture.

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Forgive Them Father — Lauryn Hill safe 80 BPM

A 99% feel-match — carries the same melancholy pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (43/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (80 BPM).

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Henry Lee — Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds featuring PJ Harvey moderate 85 BPM

96% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (39/100). Same layered texture.

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Henry Lee — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds moderate 85 BPM

Keeps the same intimate pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (43/100). Measured 95% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (85 BPM).

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Measures 99% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (43/100). Same layered texture.

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Ex-Factor — Lauryn Hill moderate 83 BPM

A 99% feel-match — carries the same melancholy pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (43/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (83 BPM).

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Everlasting Light — The Black Keys moderate 80 BPM

99% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (43/100). Same layered texture.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “Traveling Alone” by Jason Isbell?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Sonnet” by The Verve, “Dive” by Ed Sheeran, “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man” by Aretha Franklin — the top match scores 99% alike. Matching is by how the songs actually move (intensity, dynamic range, texture, tempo, predictability, vocal force), not by genre tag or popularity.

How intense is “Traveling Alone”?

It measures 43/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 6/10, layered texture, mild sudden shifts, and dynamic vocals. Tempo is 80 BPM.

How do you decide which songs are similar?

Every song in our catalog is measured on 8 dimensions — intensity, dynamic range, tempo, sudden changes, texture, predictability, vocal force and fine sound detail. Similarity is the distance between two songs across those measurements, so matches cross genres and eras. Shared mood tags break ties.

By the numbers: how this song compares

Computed from this song’s place among the 19,209 songs we’ve measured.

Where it sits in 19,000 songs

On our 19k-song scale this lands in the middle band — more energetic than 39% of songs, calmer than the other 61%. Its intensity reading of 43/100 comes from a dynamic range of 6/10, layered texture, mild shifts, and dynamic vocals. It shares this stretch of the spectrum with thousands of other tracks, so the finer fingerprint below is what really separates it.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is a slow, unhurried pace: more extreme on that axis than 85% of everything we've measured. At the far opposite end of the library sit the songs built on full chaos — sudden changes, huge quiet-to-loud swings, and relentless energy — the kind of track this one is the counterpoint to.

Feels almost identical to

Closest matches by feel across all 19,209 measured songs — not by genre or artist, by how they actually move.

What it’s good for

Sleep4/10
Focus8/10
Workout3/10
Dinner8/10
Party / hype3/10

Scored from this song’s tempo, intensity, dynamics and texture — not crowd votes.

2013 in context

The 408 songs we’ve measured from 2013 average a dynamic range of 6.5/10. At 6/10, this track is right in line with its year.

Mixes smoothly with

Within a few BPM and close in feel — they flow without a jarring transition.

The fingerprint

Intensity43
Dynamics56
Tempo22
Surprise25
Density33
Predictability0
Vocal force75
Trigger load0

The 8-dimension measurement behind every rating on this page.

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