Sometimes it’s better just to pour one and let the moment happen. Sometimes a few piano notes say everything you want to hear. Sometimes closing time comes and you don’t feel like going home alone. Wine, beer, champagne, margaritas - nope. There’s something here about memory drowning the whiskey or whiskey drowning the memory, but forget all that and listen to the duet contrasting Aldean’s mellow vocals and Lambert’s lilting backup.īreezy tune lists all the ways that whiskey surpasses every other sipper for the Whiskey Girl. “Drowns the Whiskey” by Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert
“I’ve been drinking to remember and drinking to forget,” he sings, before blaming it on everyone’s favorite fall guy: yep, the whiskey. Twangy hard-driver has the singer trying to figure out where his love went wrong. Pretty much any excuse, save one: “Baby, you ain’t worth the whiskey.” Glorious kiss-off to a cheating ex-lover lists all the things worth a toast: a good country song, another long workweek gone, a long-lost buddy. “Ain’t Worth the Whiskey” by Cole Swindell “Can’t you see that I’m 100 proof?” it asks. But scratch the surface, and you’ll find an allegory for accepting someone as they are. On the surface, this laid-back party romp champions the joys of drinking your whiskey straight.
“Don’t Water Down My Whiskey” by Alex Roe Here’s a list of 20 of the latest, greatest songs about whiskey. Although nothing tops whiskey in a glass, whiskey in song runs a close second - whether it’s a party anthem or a ballad about a romance gone to hell.