Closest thing to Bright Flight by Berman??

Can someone recommend somthing that sounds as dark and rich textured as Bright Flight and has that similar pathological country vibe? I love pedal steel and piano on guitar records and especially on Bright Flight where everything seems to have what I can only think to describe as an 'inky' quality. If instruments were colours on that, I imagine vivid dark blues and dark browns and lots of deep greens, every colour in focus. I like countryish records with nice male/male male/female vocal harmonies. There's something with Berman that's sort of a desparate shattered vulnerable sound but that's overlayed with something sweeter. Imagine a messed up hobo croaking about pain and broken things but backed by an angelic emmy lou harris vocal, redeeming him. That would be my ideal I guess. I wish I lived in the power and the light. There's a gospel edge or something. Lordy Lord and the pedal steel wailing. Any suggestions? How are Lambchop, for example, cause I feel maybe I should be plugging into 'new country' if this is what I'm after. I've heard Will Oldham, and that's there or therabouts. But what else? What comes closest to Bright Flight?