9/13/2023 0 Comments Whisky lullaby songAnderson recalled: "Brad called me one day on the phone, and said, 'I've been listening to this "Whiskey Lullaby," what would you think if I brought a girl to sing on that second verse?" And I said, 'I've never thought of that. Then Brad Paisley heard the tune and spotted its potential as a duet. However, he added, "people weren't lined up down the street looking for double-suicide drinking songs, so it sat on the shelf for five years."ĭixie Chicks were the first act to have the song on hold had but their career imploded in the meantime. Jon loved that line so we wrote it down and then he said, "Here's a line here: 'He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger.'" I said, 'Well, let's forget about the 'Midnight Cigarette.' Man, you've got the perfect idea for the song there.' And it just kind of flowed there."ĭuring an interview included in Nashville Songwriter: The Inside Stories Behind Country Music's Greatest Hits by Jake Brown, Anderson said that he and Jon Randall wrote the tune back in 2000 as something to be sung by one person. "I went to the writing session with the idea to write a song called, 'Midnight Cigarette.' Basically that turned out to be the first line of 'Whiskey Lullaby': 'She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette.' That was what I wanted to write the whole song about. He said, 'Man, I'm sorry for the way I've acted the last couple of weeks.' And his friend said to him, 'That's alright Jon, I've put the bottle to my head and pulled the trigger a few times in my life.' So when Jon came to the writing session, that was fresh on his mind." When he decided to sober up and come back and join the living again, he apologized to his friend. And he went over to a friend's house and crashed for a couple of weeks. He had gotten a divorce and lost his writing deal and his record deal all within just a day or two of each other. Jon was going through some pretty rough times back then. Anderson told AOL's The Boot the story behind the song: "Jon Randall and I wrote the song together. The song climaxes in a solo fight between guitars and fiddles before the vocals rip through a high-speed ode to whiskey: “ Kentucky, Tennessee, you better find whiskey / Not leaving, that’s a fact / Small batch, sour mash / Red nose, red face, gonna wreck the whole place.” You might not be sad at the end of this song, but you’ll probably be out of breath.The song was written by Bill Anderson and Jon Randall and was inspired by a difficult time that Randall was going through including a divorce from country star Lorrie Morgan. Sure, if you read the lyrics, it’s still a song about turning to whiskey after a heartbreak, but the mood is definitely more upbeat. That’s why the dizzyingly fast, quick-witted “Whiskey’s Gone” from the Zac Brown Band is such a nice break. #4 “Whiskey’s Gone” – Zac Brown Band So many whiskey songs are downers: They’re about heartbreak, drowning your sorrows in a glass or (usually) both. #5 Jack Daniels – Miranda Lambert “ Daddy always said he was wrong for me / And in the end, he’d only bring me misery,” Lambert sings against guitar strums in the opening lines of “Jack Daniels.” She takes another verse of teasing the real subject of her song: He was “ born and raised in Lynchburg, Tennessee,” and she says that “w hen I’m with him, I get meaner.” The song builds and builds in pace and volume until Lambert admits what she’s really talking about when she sings “ I fell in love with Jack Daniel’s again.” It’s a deeply playful song, and hard to listen to only once. To see a list of The World’s Best Drinking Songs (see which George Jones Hit tops the list) see our blog HERE For a list of the Bartender’s Best Bottles of Bourbon click our Blog HERE For a list of Most Drinkable Ryes see our Blog HERE Here is The Boot’s List: Top 10 Country Songs About Whiskey David Allen Coe “Jack Daniels if you Please”Īnd OF COURSE speaking of “Tennessee Whiskey” – we are partial to George Jones version of the song, which now somewhat of a country standard – so many artists have covered it.Cole Swindell “Ain’t Worth the Whiskey”.Asleep at the Wheel “The Letter that Johnny Walker Red”.Here is our list of forgotten great tunes (you can see The Boots full list and article below!) We do think that there are a few good songs that The Boot left off: ![]() ![]() Over here at The George Jones, we serve A LOT of Whiskey – and we are partial to Tennessee whiskey (which is why #1 on The Boot’s list is no suprise to us!).
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