I don’t know anything about Jeremy Ivey outside of this song. But, jeesh, this is a hell of a song. By this point you may have noticed that I have a soft spot for country western feels but not country western popular music. I tend to find the pop versions too weak, water downed, and instantly dated sounding for my tastes. I do have to remind myself that it’s not ok to label all of country music in this way. For one, as I mentioned earlier, I’m trying to adopt the attitude that the person who loves the art is correct. Second, it doesn’t matter what type of art or genre you’re interested in, the majority of it is going to be terrible. There are no more bad country songs then there are heavy metal, hip-hop, jazz…
One thing you might want to do with this song is take a look at this and the breakdown of “Crush Story” by Too Much Joy. It’s not a one to one comparison, but there are some interesting cross over for two songs written decades apart and having two different styles, subjects, and feels.
Is this song well known? I have no idea, but I bet it ends up in your rotation.
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