Sorry, no results has been found matching your query. Don't let Paulette Carlson's pottery class instructor looks fool you; this band knew how to play a sad song. But wait, there is more. Men don’t want you to know they are emotional, and will often deny it. Enter to Win a Vehicle Ticket to the Festival on Parade! 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. Drink of choice: Tullamore Dew, the great equalizer. Aldean and Miranda Lambert at least make complaining to a manager sound pretty; their boozy harmonies sell the song. He thinks why not just mask my emotions as other things where others don’t have to mess with it. I know, you will say this is an outdated survey. All rights reserved. Drink of choice: Jack Daniel's or George Dickel, if you please. 13. Drink of choice: So long as it's drunk with a cigarette dangling from your lip and a woman on your arm, we reckon it's not likely to matter. Discover new country music and the hottest country songs across Canada. "Whiskey, If You Were a Woman" is a song written by Mary W. Francis, Johnny MacRae and Bob Morrison, and recorded by American country music band Highway 101. It starts out clear in Lynchburg until it is aged for seven years. From multiple threads about best karaoke songs on Reddit and Quora to lists made by country centered websites like Wide Open Country and Whiskey Riff. Now this is just confusing. You can still drink at Billy Bob's in Ft. Worth - in fact, Willie's holding his 4th of July Picnic there again this year - but chances are you won't see any topless women, and you won't get any free whiskey. Paisley and Alison Krauss trade haunting verses about characters tortured by love and alcohol and pain that doesn’t go away after one bad night of binge-drinking. It’s a hard listen, but in some ways, an important addition to any good drinking songs list. Celebs come together to get MN actor James Hong a Walk of Fame star, An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960-2018. This is going back quite a few years but Highway 101 had a song called "Whiskey if You Were A Woman". Probably the best song on this list for a slow square-dance, “The Whiskey Ain’t Workin’” is a straight-down-the-middle drinking song. Whiskey? This being the case, men are the ones who have to cope with the emotions of a break up more often, because they did not initiate the break up. So when Kristofferson sings, “She’s a part of my heart and a whole lot of my pain,” we can only guess which he means until he launches into the chorus: “Whiskey, whiskey, my old friend / I’ve come to talk with you again / Milk of mercy, please be kind / And drive this feeling from my mind.” "Whiskey, Whiskey" is a slow, deliberately paced heartbreak song about drowning your sorrows in a glass of whiskey -- in other words, a perfect whiskey song. David Allan Coe chose to incorporate Jack Daniels into this song to help build an image for the man. 6. Willie Nelson Family Picnics were a place your mom went to go topless. 4. "Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)" - Tom T. Hall (1975) As is the wont of a Tom T. Hall song, there's a story and a lesson to be learned here - the secret to life is faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, and more money. He can afford Jack Daniels, so he must have done something right. Enter to Win Free Stream Access to the Mary Bue & The Monarchy Album Release with Turn Turn Turn, & Alan Sparhawk Concert! 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. This stands as a great example to show that women are the ones who are usually leaving men, not the other way around. In this song the man almost comes off as sarcastic. "Tennessee Whiskey" - George Jones with David Allan Coe (1983) Performed here at at the first Farm Aid in 1985, this song was first released by David Allan Coe in 1981, and became a bigger hit for Jones two years later. This song stands out from others because the man is trying to cover up the pain he is going through, rather than admitting he is going through tough times. These are different times. 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So from the decades worth of songs about whiskey — drinking songs, breakup songs, love songs and everything in between — The Boot has selected the 10 best. Hot track of the week. In Shot of Glory, The Washboard Union sing about how they need a shot of glory (aka whiskey) to work up the nerve to talk to a girl.