I mentioned that the best Cobronavirus songs use their sound to establish a suitable atmosphere, but the production here shows that this can work against a song as well. This song is a gross, nihilistic piece of garbage even by Cobronavirus standards, and rings especially hollow in light of the events of the past week. This brings us to their latest single release “Wine, Beer, Whiskey,” and frankly, it’s been a while since listening to a song has made me this angry. The quartet is all but finished in country music, but that isn’t stopping them from blatantly trend-hopping in hopes of a miracle career resuscitation. I wrote an epitaph for Little Big Town’s career last year, and nothing’s changed since then: “Over Drinking” only made it to #49 on Billboard’s airplay chart, and “The Daughters” didn’t reach the airplay chart at all. “That’s when the fun will begin again.A better title for this song would have been “Disgusting, Disheartening, Lazy.” “I just want to hear that trumpet again in the beginning of ‘Wine, Beer, Whiskey,’” he says. But while nothing is official, Sweet says he will be looking forward to hearing one sound in particular.
And all indications seem to be that there is at least a chance that artists will be able to get back out on the road before the end of the year.
I mean, let’s face it, it’s a party song.”Ĭurrently, LBT is nominated for Best Country Album (Nightfall) and Best Country Duo/Group Performance (“Sugar Coat”) at the upcoming 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in March. It stood out and just had this cool kinetic energy. We needed some levity to balance some of those other moments.
“It really was a no brainer,” remembers Sweet, who also snagged writing credits on LBT classics such as “Fine Line,” “I’m With the Band” and “Your Side of the Bed.” “It was just one of those things. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart soon after its release back in January of 2020 and an example of the juxtaposition of emotions displayed within every note of the Grammy winners’ ninth studio album.Īnd while the song signaled a bit of a left turn from the otherwise heavy lyrical material that made up Nightfall, Sweet and his bandmates knew from the very beginning that it belonged on the album. That heavy song was “Problem Child,” track eleven on the album that debuted at No. “We had Topher Brown and Sean McConnell out on the road writing with us for a few days, and we had just finished something really heavy.” “It’s kind of funny,” Sweet chuckles at the recollection. Written by the members of LBT alongside fellow songwriters Topher Brown and Sean McConnell, the song still conjures up some good feels for Sweet and his LBT bandmates – Karen Fairchild, Jimi Westbrook and Kimberly Schlapman – a foursome that coincidentally extended its global publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music Nashville recently. Just knowing that makes you feel better.”Īnd with a fandom that was looking to ‘feel better’ during the majority of last year, LBT’s single “Wine, Beer, Whiskey” certainly got the job done.
“That was a tough pill to swallow,” Sweet remembers of watching LBT’s much anticipated Nightfall tour come to a halt due to the pandemic. Little did anyone know that the fun was soon about to end, as the pandemic and political tensions and racial uprisings took hold of the country just a few short weeks later. “We had trumpet players coming down the aisles,” remembers Sweet during an interview with American Songwriter about the rousing performance of the drinking anthem.
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