At the end of 2019, if you tally up all the steel guitar playing that appeared on a mainstream country album released by a major label this year, chances are that at least 80 percent of it will hav…
At the end of 2019, if you tally up all the steel guitar playing that appeared on a mainstream country album released by a major label this year, chances are that at least 80 percent of it will have occurred solely onAn even better rationale is how sharp the songwriting is on this second album by the Texas-based trio, which has basically perfected all the formulas they put into play on their bestselling 2017 debut.
Some hilariously silly ones, too — actually, “great” and “silly” split the difference throughout the album. The band was named after a Dwight Yoakam song, and that influence was never more apparent than in the leadoff single, “Mr. Lonely,” even if it’s a little more comically cocky than anything Dwight would have ever written.
It’s nearly a fact that any modern country song that’s self-conscious enough to put “cheatin’” in the title is going to be terrible, but Midland defy those odds with two songs that do that, and both of them are terrific.
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